Creating Short Movies

Today, we went out in groups and interviewed people about current issues (the economy, State of the Union, Elie Weizel's commencement speech, etc). I chose to ask people about the economy. My partner, Becca, and I went to the Upper UC to find people to interview. We came across a table of three seniors, which was perfect as I was asking about the job search, and Becca was asking about the commencement speech. The three agreed to interview with us, and so we began. The interview was slightly awkward, as the three didn't have much to say and I was pretty uncomfortable being on camera. After our interview ended, we thanked them and returned to Coppee to do some editing.

Our assignment had three components: first, to import the video and add title banners and credits. Second, we had to cut ourselves out of the video and put in a transition of a black background and white writing, asking the questions in writing. Finally, we had to add a fade transition in between our introduction slide and the first interview.

This was difficult to do, and it took me until the last minute of class to complete it. However, I'm proud of myself for being able to do so. My video is definitely choppy and I'm sure that there is much I can do to improve it, but for a first attempt I think I did a pretty good job. I was able to follow all of the instructions, and get the videos up on youtube. I think that my skills can only improve from here, and it was a pretty good start. Although, I still hate looking at myself on camera.