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Semester 2- Video

Music Video

     My group decided to recreate High School Musical 2's, Bet On It, music video. The first thing we decided on was who was playing Troy in the music video. We had a perfect match and it was one of our own team members, Alex Pauli. After pre-production we were ready to film. The filming process was a little hard. My group wasn't very smart for choosing a music video set outdoors in the summer time when it was the middle of January and February. My main role in the filming process was teaching Alex the dance moves and helping with certain shots in the video. The shots for this video were not that difficult. Most of them were regular shots we could shoot on a tripod but sometimes we had to hold it to pan with Alex. Overall I thought this project was really fun. The team that I was with worked well together and we had some fun while creating this music video. If I were to do this again I would pick a different music video just because of the weather. Even though it wasn't snowing or raining filming days were still very cold.


Short Film

     The last and final project in video we had to do was create a short film. Everyone in the class had to come up with their own short film idea and present it to the class. Once we showed the class we had to vote on which story was our favorite. My class had a hard time deciding this so we had to revote several times. Eventually we had our groups and we began pre-production. My group did Sean Slicer's script, called Wings. We had done pre-production pretty fast so we began filming almost right away. We filmed almost everything in class and had to work around people's absences. To work around people being gone we filmed scenes separately and skipped what scenes they were in. The script was very detailed so we didn't have any trouble filming. I helped set up scenes and act in it. Overall this project was very fun but kind of hard. In the beginning when we had to come up with our own script it was hard for me to think of something. I ended up using a true story about a girl getting injured while dancing. I wouldn't really change anything because my group worked well and I believe the movie turned out decent.

Overview

This semester I would say I was more productive than last. I used my time wisely and finished most of my projects on time or in a timely manner.  I collaborated more with my classmates and a few times I even stayed after school to make some progress. Sometimes to make my projects better I would ask others how they liked it and changed it based on their opinion. I feel like this semester I really grew and challenged myself in video.

      I would say my strength in video is directing. Personally because I can tell people what to do and show how things go. I can't really act or operate the camera but I can set up scenes and camera angles. I also really like to edit videos.

     Some things I could work on would be focusing more in class. Although I got my projects done on time I would ask a lot of questions on how to do something because I was not paying attention. That could have saved me some time from having to stay after school to finish. I could also manage my time wisely. My groups and I would start rushing when the dead line was coming up

     I am sad to say this will be my last time doing video. Next year I will be doing SID but it's more broadcasting and I won't be able to do these fun projects. My favorite part of this year would defiantly have to be when we did convergence. I got to see what I will be doing next year. But video this year also really pushed me a lot to be more creative and I would say it helped a lot. I accomplished more than I thought I could in this class and I am very proud of myself. I would not really change anything in from this year I personally thought it was fun. Next year I hope to use the skills I learned and apply them to SID some how. Thank you Mrs. Zimmerli for a great year!

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