Video Final Reflection
This year I was able to learn a lot
and experience a lot of new things. I
learned what voiceovers were, when to use them, and how to do them. I also learned many different ways to hold a camera
and how to get more interesting shots.
Some of these shots include tracking, dolly, worms/birds eye view,
panoramic, neutral (for interviews) and many more. Another topic we learned was how to create a
script, log line, and storyboard for a short film. Overall, I will use all of these items in the
future.
The way we learned these things were
through many different resources. We
learned the shots with a power point and we also watched examples of each
shots. It was very interesting to learn
how to create different shots because we got to try it ourselves and learn how
to do it without just sitting there. We
also watched many different examples including short films, trailers, video
game introductions, etc. Some of our
main resources were from ONW Now. It was
very interesting to see how the upperclassmen used the things they’ve learned
and put them to good use because I’m going to be doing those exact projects
next year in Convergence Journalism.
These items are very important, not
just for receiving a good grade in the class, but for much more. For me, these skills will all be used in
Convergence next year to create worthy news stories for ONW Now. Also, if I ever want to go into a tech class
or photography I can still use items to create amazing projects. I’m very excited to use not only what I’ve
learned last year and this year, but also to learn more and find more skills
that I can use in my news packages. I can
also use these to help others in the future.
I can help out any underclassmen in their eComm projects and also to
critique my future classmates in Convergence next year and my senior year.
I believe my greatest strength is
being able to come up with the ideas and behind the scenes items to a
project. Some tasks this includes are
storyboarding, creating scripts, thinking and collaborating to make interesting
shots, and being able to communicate well with my classmates. This will be important for me to use my next
years so that I am able to talk with my classmates to make amazing projects and
news stories while also incorporating ideas from everyone. My weaknesses are actually being able to
follow through with my ideas and put them into actual video to use. I always have a vision but when I go to film
them, all my ideas go away and I can never bring them out to create the film
itself. I’ve definitely improved and
learn a lot more from last year which makes me super excited for the years to
come because I know I’m going to keep learning and making amazing news
packages.
I’m definitely going to use
everything that I learned in my future whether it be with or without actual
video. We not only learned the basic
filming and story creating skills, but we learned much more. There were so many components behind the
scenes that we had to use. We had to
communicate/collaborate with all our partners and project groups, but also how
to use the technology and cameras and soundboard, plus more. I will be able to collaborate with people in
the future much better now because I know that everyone’s opinion is valuable
and that it doesn’t matter what you background is; all that matters is how
great your project turns out.
If I were to change anything, I
would have changed groups more often so I could be more comfortable creating
and collaborating on stories with different people. I also wouldn’t have done the same plot line
for our short film the whole way through.
I had a certain outcome in my head and only using that shot down other
people’s ideas which is not what you want to happen within a group setting.
Overall, I am very pleased with
everything that I’ve learned this year and am extremely excited to see what the
future has to come in Convergence Journalism.
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