A Drip of Life

This past week in e-Comm we have been doing a live coverage story on our Student Council's annual Blood Drive.  Our goal was to shoot some B-Roll of the event while also interviewing either a phlebotomist, a donor, or a STUCO member helping out.

Saving Lives One Drop at a Time

The scope of this project was to emphasize the blood drive in a Michigan high school specifically for a previous breast cancer survivor.  They wanted to explain what their goal was when doing a blood drive, especially for breast cancer.

This video did a really good job about posing their shots, both in interviews and for the B-Roll.  Another component they executed well was their B-Roll, they made sure to get plenty of different angled shots whether it be of the patients, the organizer, or the phlebotomists.  They also used the 6-Shot-Sequence, the Rule of 1/3, a stable base for each shot, and well-rounded audio.

I could use a lot of the things used in this video like the different shots and set-ups of interviews and the B-Roll.  Also, the angle the story was told in is a really good concept I could use.  They made their angle specific to certain people so if I could find an individual story, that's what I could base my video off of.

Overall, I thought this video was very well put together between the actual video and the audio over the top.  I will definitely use this video as a reference for my upcoming story.

ONW NOW Video

This project we did in class was to familiarize ourselves with having to use B-Roll and interviews in the same video to create a whole story.  My video in particular was over ONW Sophomore Thomas Barnes and his incredible talent to be able to compose music.  It was really interesting to be able to see what he does to get into his composing zone.

First I had to go in and get actual footage of him playing and composing music.  After that I got to create my story which personally is my favorite because I get to make my own delayed and summary leads and the voice-overs in between.  After we created our scripts we started to organize our clips by favoriting and keywording them so we knew which videos to use.  During this we also did our voice-overs then started to actually put things on our timelines.  Once we got things on we would just morph them all to make sure they transitioned well into one another and that there weren't any jump cuts.

I've learned a lot of things during this project such as how to get B-Roll for certain activities, what types of shots to use, how to use a title for an interview, and also how to use the J and L to cover up different cuts.

If I were to do anything different I would make sure that I white-balanced my camera every time I was in new lighting or location.   I would also get more B-Roll of him composing and playing different things.

Other than those things I am very happy with how my video turned out and am looking forward to learning more things in AV class this year and to make more and more videos.