Ashlee Robinson
Vending Machines
The scope of this project would be how you should use the vending machines and also how not to use the machines here at school. In fact anywhere. I completed a vending machine showing students and adults how to use vending machines buy using the 6th shot method. The 6th shot method are the following; extreme close up, close up, medium shot, wide shot, and finally extreme wide shot. First things first I had to come up with an idea. I didn't want it to be a basic "how you should turn a book to the library". I mean most kids and adults should already know how to do that. I wanted go further. I ended up picking a lesson about vending machines. You would not believe about how many folks I see a day who simply don't know how to use a vending machine. Now I'm sure most people do know how, but choose not to. Why put in a crinkled up dollar in the machine? Maybe that's the only one you have on you, but kicking the vending machine after it wouldn't take your money is not going to get the machine to work. After I came up with the idea of the video I made a story board, and what that is, is a piece of paper that you write down each different shot in. An example for one of my boxes I used... I wrote down a guy walking to the vending machine and below that I wrote extreme wide shot. After I wrote all of that down I drew a quick sketch to show how I wanted it to look like. I ended up with a full page of boxes. There is no limit to how many different shots you would like to use. My video however was assigned for it to be no longer than thirty seconds. Next it was time to film. Personally filming is almost my favorite part. I inserted a SMS card into the camera and got a tripod. I set up the camera and balanced out my shots. Balancing shots out is very important! Without doing so your shots could end up yellow do to different lighting areas that you use. I followed my story board and shot each box exactly how it was. I did end up having to be in my video because my partner wouldn't. Which I don't like being filmed but it had to be done. The next step was to put the cameras back and start editing! I used Adobe Premier Pro to edit my video. It took me a day to film and an additional day to edit. I had to figure out a completely different software, but I mean it should help me out in the future. After I edited the video making sure each shot was in focus and looked good, I decided my video was missing something. This video was not supposed to have voice in it, but we could use music. I used an upbeat song so that the viewer would be more interested in what I was doing. I uploaded my video and had lots of feedback. My teacher said I had excellent transition and he lighting was great and evened out through the whole video, which other classmates had a hard time figuring out. I also clearly showed a beginning middle and end. One thing that I thought I should really change about my video was the DONTS and the DOS down lower so that the viewer could see what not to do and what to do better than in the first edit that I did.
I learned a totally different software. The text tool is a lot different on Premier Pro than Final Cut. Personally Final Cut is so much easier to work with. I did learn that Premier Pro did have a better way to mute the sound with one click of a button unlike Final Cut. The software was harder but quick to learn. Once I got all the main tools to use for my video editing it went smoothly throughout the rest of my video. Nothing went wrong with my video. Thank God! Professionally my partner and I got along great. She just moved to our school, so we didn't know much about each other and how we work. During the idea process, story board, and filming we did learn a lot about each other that I would have never known. We had to arguments and we both let each other talk and listen to different ideas. I did get everything turned in on time which is a big key in life. Deadlines! Can be stressful but in the end it is completely worth it.
What I would do differently in this project would probably get different people in my video. I think you shouldn't be in your own video. This didn't happen to me, but I know other people were in their own video that they were filming and when it came to classmates they said stuff like "it needs a better actor" or even "they look like they don't want to be there" and that got the kids down. What I would do the same is to carefully look at each video because transitioning to the next clip was hard for some people to make it look natural. The two biggest things I think for me to have a good video is to have good focus and good transitions. With out that your video wouldn't be the best, and they could always ask for help if needed.
Some experiences that I would draw from this is that to be friendly to who ever you work with. Everything works so much smoother. In the past I have had partners who clearly did not want to film or even edit. With partners help it goes so much faster. If I could change anything would be the specific project that we did. I think students would be more involved if they got to film outside of school and or hobbies that they liked to do. I would have also made this video so that it is longer than only thirty seconds. I mean it is our first video getting back to the basics.
Screen Shots and video down below!!
I learned a totally different software. The text tool is a lot different on Premier Pro than Final Cut. Personally Final Cut is so much easier to work with. I did learn that Premier Pro did have a better way to mute the sound with one click of a button unlike Final Cut. The software was harder but quick to learn. Once I got all the main tools to use for my video editing it went smoothly throughout the rest of my video. Nothing went wrong with my video. Thank God! Professionally my partner and I got along great. She just moved to our school, so we didn't know much about each other and how we work. During the idea process, story board, and filming we did learn a lot about each other that I would have never known. We had to arguments and we both let each other talk and listen to different ideas. I did get everything turned in on time which is a big key in life. Deadlines! Can be stressful but in the end it is completely worth it.
What I would do differently in this project would probably get different people in my video. I think you shouldn't be in your own video. This didn't happen to me, but I know other people were in their own video that they were filming and when it came to classmates they said stuff like "it needs a better actor" or even "they look like they don't want to be there" and that got the kids down. What I would do the same is to carefully look at each video because transitioning to the next clip was hard for some people to make it look natural. The two biggest things I think for me to have a good video is to have good focus and good transitions. With out that your video wouldn't be the best, and they could always ask for help if needed.
Some experiences that I would draw from this is that to be friendly to who ever you work with. Everything works so much smoother. In the past I have had partners who clearly did not want to film or even edit. With partners help it goes so much faster. If I could change anything would be the specific project that we did. I think students would be more involved if they got to film outside of school and or hobbies that they liked to do. I would have also made this video so that it is longer than only thirty seconds. I mean it is our first video getting back to the basics.
Screen Shots and video down below!!
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