OTS Project

Our group planned the shots keeping in mind the rule of thirds and to not resord towards the sun. We also tried to pick a spot were their would be less interuptions and noise form the other groups. Planning on how the shots are going to be taken need to be planned before you start shooting so you don't mess up by making up the shots on the spot and so you don't run out of recording time.
We did try to follow the rule of thirds because it gives us more control of what we want the audience to look at so they better understand what is going on in the shot and so they wont be distracted by other things in the shot that are less important.
The over the shoulder shots give the impression that the people are having a conversation or what the person might be looking at kind of like an POV shot. It works by having a camera shot over the shoulder of one person looking at another person.
The dialogue seems realistic in the final edit. The only challenge we had in the final edit were cutting the clip into smaller clips to get the conversation.
There is a dominant tone in our video. The dominant tone in our video is boring. We accomplished this by not showing any emotion in our video.
Another observation that I have about using over the shoulder shots is that it helps the audience place the character in their setting.
Others ideas that are emphasized to make effective videos are that having backround noice can sometimes be good in a shot and that facing the camera toward the sun is not good.

Green Screen Workshop

Important considerations in filming with a green screen are shadows need to be removed by adding lights, wrinkles in green screen, and to not wear green clothing while working with a green screen.

Seasons Greetings Project

What I feel my partner and I did a good job on was the music we chose and how we set the in and out points that were just right and didn't cut off any of the words. Seeing the other videos I would have dont the falling text from John and Ryan's video. I liked it because it looked interesting and didnt't lose the audience's attantion. What I did specifically to create my group's video was choosing the music and putting the musice into our video. I helped my partner with the editing and some of the green screen work in Adobe After effects. My partner helped me by cutting the video clips and putting them into the timeline. What I would have donr differently if i had another chance is the music. I would have chosen better music that was related to the holidays we were describing.

green screen workshop

5 Things I learned

What I learned in this video was that showing an example of cyberbullying at the beginning of the video can be a strong hook.

Final Draft Cyberbullying Video

The part of the video I am most satisfied with is the part where Mr Vela is talking about the consequences of cyberbullying and then it cuts to a clip of Mr Vela taking a student to the office. The most helpful comment we got that helped us create our final draft was that we should try to add the words stop , block, and tell in the scene towards the end where a student is walking in the hallway. The only changes we made in the final draft were the audio levels and we added the words stop, block, and tell to the hallway scene. Other changes we would have made if we had another day are making an echo effect after Mr Vela says the word "safe" towards the end of the interview. If we had the chance to do the video all over again we would add more facts. I discovered that getting feedback on your video is helpful on seeing the things that you missed.

Five Things I learned

Around 0:30 I really liked how the title has a question and then Mr.Caffiro answered the question and learned that their idea on doing that can be really effective.Another thing that when Jake asks on what website cyberbullying happens on the most and the stundents answer "faebook" I learned that it was effective on getting their message across. I also learned that the music they chose around 1:33 was effective on keeping the audience's attention. Around 0:24 I learned that the scene of the students walking and talking showed that cyerullying happens to teens and takes place at a school. One other thing I learned was that the interviews of the students showed a variety of point of views on cyberbullying and was good at showing that it can happen to anyone.