In my first video titled "Students' Favorite Form of the Arts" I informally asked a number of random students on campus what their favorite form of artistic expression was. The video showcases a wide-variety of answers with some unique insight as to what was so inspiring about what they chose. Click here to watch my video.Others were goofy, some were shy and one or two may have been caught at an "awkward" timing. Overall, I encourage everyone to watch this video and absorb the two minutes of Winthrop diversity for the arts!
While shooting this montage, I loved getting a laugh out of some responses and hearing some honest, in-depth truth about what moves the creative mind. However, because I was asking random students, most people were irritated and suspicious with my slight intrusiveness as many were exhausted from studying for exams.
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My second video titled "The Arts at Winthrop: Music, Visuals, Theater" is much more formal. With this video I followed one student involved in each of the following majors: Music, sculpture and theater performance. In the video, each student showcases their individual talent according to their major---I am most proud of this video over any other video I have shot and edited in the past several months of my amateur experience. I feel as though I was finally 100% successful in reaching an audience, editing a better visual and auditory experience together and overall, justly portraying the message I wanted to be heard. Click here to watch my second video.
While shooting this piece, I felt very intimate with my three subjects (being in their personal workspace for creativity) and thus I was more motivated to have that portrayed on camera. I scheduled appointments with each individual at night when they were most creatively ready to work. So I got a lot of great B-roll shots and intriguing interview responses that made shooting fun---there were absolutely no issues at all.
During post-production, I supplied the names of each subject as subtitles during their first interview appearance. Somehow one of the names was erased and replaced with the stock title of "TITLE." As a disclaimer, I would like to credit Ceciley Bigham as the nameless interviewee and I apologize sincerely for the unprofessional mistake. I did not fix this simple mistake because, for some peculiar reason, this video took an accumulated six and a half hours to export and upload to youtube. Had I fixed the error and redone all of the uploading, I would have been up all night and failed an early exam of mine.
Other than these problems, editing was a delight as always and I had an immense amount of fun finding creative ways to present a truly thought-provoking subject. Again, click here to watch my second video.
In summary of my videos from the past four months or so, I think I've improved a lot already. Little did I know that film editing and journalistic filming would become a peak of interest to me. I am already considering a change of focus in my studies within the mass communication department. I hope these last two videos are a pleasure to all.
While shooting this piece, I felt very intimate with my three subjects (being in their personal workspace for creativity) and thus I was more motivated to have that portrayed on camera. I scheduled appointments with each individual at night when they were most creatively ready to work. So I got a lot of great B-roll shots and intriguing interview responses that made shooting fun---there were absolutely no issues at all.
During post-production, I supplied the names of each subject as subtitles during their first interview appearance. Somehow one of the names was erased and replaced with the stock title of "TITLE." As a disclaimer, I would like to credit Ceciley Bigham as the nameless interviewee and I apologize sincerely for the unprofessional mistake. I did not fix this simple mistake because, for some peculiar reason, this video took an accumulated six and a half hours to export and upload to youtube. Had I fixed the error and redone all of the uploading, I would have been up all night and failed an early exam of mine.
Other than these problems, editing was a delight as always and I had an immense amount of fun finding creative ways to present a truly thought-provoking subject. Again, click here to watch my second video.
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In summary of my videos from the past four months or so, I think I've improved a lot already. Little did I know that film editing and journalistic filming would become a peak of interest to me. I am already considering a change of focus in my studies within the mass communication department. I hope these last two videos are a pleasure to all.
