This is the professional project review I chose to analyze. It was a highlight video of how Dakota Ballinger, #45, did during the football season for Morgan County Cougars. Including catches, tackles and many more.
The story was just a highlight video and at the beginning there is a close up of Ballinger so the audience knows who he is at the very beginning. It was just told by sharing his most impressive plays on the field. One specific element I would take from this work is that if I was ever doing a feature story for someone who plays sports, I could definitely take the same style as the person who made the video did. Show the person the feature is about in he beginning, and show their most impressive plays with upbeat music in the background.
One element that is already used that I already know is the rule of thirds and how to do a highlight video which mostly includes play by plays. The creator did really good of getting all the shots...the shots were steady and the audience can clearly see Ballinger playing. One thing the creator can improve on is putting in voiceovers as that can help for a feature story or get an interview with the player as it is always a great idea to get to know the player on a more personal level.
In conclusion, the highlight video was good...the shots were good and he audience can tell that Ballinger is a good gootball player and the video flowed on smoothly.
This tutorial is about audio and how to control and make it as good as possible. Audio is very important in videography and so today I will help you learn the BASICS because I'm not that advanced with the complicated works. Let's get started!
My purpose for making this tutorial is to help those who don't know how to work audio and to teach them how to fix it using the BASICS so that their videos aren't as bad. People need this skill because audio is everything in a video and if the audio isn't good, people will either hear nothing come from the video, the audio will either be too loud, too soft, and that just gets annoying. The audiences include EVERYONE. More specifically those who want to get into the video industry or anything that has to do with audio on television. But since we are starting off small, my audience are students who are trying to learn more about how to fix audio when using Final Cut Pro. BASICS ONLY.
NOTE: This audio and audio doesn't have any steps sometimes...ENJOY!!
This is the first thing to do. Which is get onto Final Cut Pro. Here, for beginners, you can see the footage and audio of the certain footage. In order to see audio, just right click on the footage and press "Detach Audio."
This a close up of one of the audios detached from the footage. As you can see, the lighter shade of green indicates how loud the audio is, since it's not red or yellow, it is at the right volume. There is a white dot to the right side and that dot is used in order if the person wants the volume to fade or not.
As seen, if you pull the dot to the left, it will have the audio fade out instead of it ending abruptly.
Here you notice that the volume got to high and it turned yellow, it has to be green at all times or else it be too loud for the audience.
If there are two parts of one audio you want to separate, use the blade tool by pressing 'B.' Then just click on where you want to make the cut and you will able to break the audio into two.
Now that you know the basics, it is important to know that there will be multiple noises that will compete with each other. To balance out the sounds, go to the right of the screen where it says Channel Configuration. Here you will see the down pointed head of an arrow so click on that.
In order to balance it, the switch will be in "Stereo." Click on "Dual Mono" to balance out the noises. That is the basics of fixing audio on Final Cut Pro.
This tutorial is about audio and how to control and make it as good as possible. Audio is very important in videography and so today I will help you learn the BASICS because I'm not that advanced with the complicated works. Let's get started!
My purpose for making this tutorial is to help those who don't know how to work audio and to teach them something that wont make their videos as bad. But my help will probably only help a little. People need this skill because audio is everything in a video and if the audio isn't good, people will either hear nothing come from the video, the audio will either be too loud, too soft, and that just gets annoying. The audiences include EVERYONE. More specifically those who want to get into the video industry or anything that has to do with audio on television. But since we are starting off small, my audience are students who are trying to learn more about how to fix the audio when using Final Cut Pro.
Here is a video that will help better understand audio in Final Cut Pro. Sources go to KingTutsPro.
This is my professional article review. I chose an article that described the dangers of winter temperature. It warns everyone that is important to stay warm during these cold times because your life really depends on it
The author, Jacqueline Howard, urges everyone to stay as warm as possible during the cold weather as some factors of being too cold could end up killing us. She uses scientific evidence to support her claim. The body has to keep the most important organs safe and warm --brain, lungs, and heart-- and so in order to do this, the body draws away blood vessels from the fingers and toes in order to keep the body from getting frostbite, heart attacks, asthma symptoms, or hypothermia.
With the scientific research Howard has made, she makes her article much more relevant and her claim is strongly backed up. Her strength is doing her research and by doing so makes her a very reliable source. A weakness of Howard is that she claims that the body needs to protect the brain, heart, and lungs. Though she only goes in depth with what happens to the heart and lungs if the body didn't immediately act...she never talked about what would happen to the brain if the body never reacted quickly against the cold weather.
The author's general conclusion is to stay as warm as possible by wearing as much clothing as possible. Wear jackets, sweaters, hats, gloves, anything that will keep the body warm and radiating heat. She also explains that there are other ways of staying warm, to keep your home as warm as possible, to have the fireplace running all night, get as much blankets to stay warm in, drink hot chocolate, and to put the heater on.
In conclusion, the article relates to me as a videographer as when I do stories for sports, I have to do my research of what happened in the game and keep scores in order to make myself a reliable source. I need to be kept up to date and if I have other sources that help my story improve, I can add that to my work as well.
My personal project is the Fall Sports video I did back in September. The video was assigned to get the rest of the student body excited for the fall sports games. The video consisted of football, boy's soccer, girl's tennis, girl's golf, gymnastics, and cross country.
The process for the making of the video wasn't difficult but it wasn't easy. In order to get all highlights from the fall sports, someone had to go to games for each sport. I was able able to go to the home football games and film on the sidelines. After getting enough footage from each games, editing is next. I got all footages and picked the best from each sport. There were some sports like football showed more in the video than a less as exciting sport like golf. After I picked the footages, I has to get a song that went with the mood in order to get everyone excited for the fall season.
I had help from Adam Cook picking the song choice. We ended up choosing "After Dawn" by Jaeger and Meric and "Purple Lamborghini" from the Suicide Squad movie playlist. We divided the songs and put the faster beats in all the videos. Ben Whitney was the one who helped with the audio on making it fade and help balance the audio for the video.
What I would do better in the end is get more footage from other sports that aren't as popular like football or soccer. I would get cross country and golf and especially tennis involved more. I would also make the audio better because it ended up not being the best at the assembly.
What I would do the same is collaborate with my classmates and hear their perspective of the video as they help the video look better. Collaboration is important in Convergence and i'm happy I ended up getting help from my peers, as well as Mr. Cooper.
In the end, I got to do something different which was the highlight video and it was a bit different from what I'm normally used to and it made me think more of what process I should take on, like whether I should of picked the music first or edited the footages first. It ended up being a really fun experience for me and I ended up learning more and if were to do it again I'd be happy too.
I learned how to use Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator more in
depth this year. Last year in grade nine I only had a quarter in Graphic design
and so I didn’t have enough experience with both. I also learned how to use
Adobe InDesign. In all programs I learned how to use tools and how to
manipulate the colors in order to get them the shade just right. I also learned
how to make a magazine and poster in Adobe Illustrator. First I would scale it
to the right size. Then, I would take away the color from the poster, so I
could put in the color I wanted. After I finished adjusting the color, I would
import the image into InDesign in order to get rid of all the pixels and clean
it all up. After I fix it I exported it into the server to send it off to
print.
I learned how to use all Adobe programs from my fellow peers
and Google. As Lofquist always said, “Before you ask me, ask your peers. If
that doesn’t work, ask Google. If that still doesn’t work, ask Google again.”
Google gave me the answers when my peers couldn’t. Sometimes Lofquist did help
and it was helpful, but I always made sure to ask Google before Lofquist. An
example would be when I had to ask my peers and Google was when we had to do
our own packaging. My group and I wanted to make a skateboard ramp kind of
package. I wanted to two handles on both ends of the package and I didn’t know
how to do it. I asked my peers and they tried helping me but they couldn’t
figure it out either. I ended up asking Google and it gave me the answers I
needed in order to finish my package. I’ve been learning a lot of technical skills.
Reasons why learning the Adobe programs were important were
so they can contribute to the rest of my projects. They improved my projects by
load and made them look more professional and made my clients more satisfied.
My strengths in this class are collaboration and communication.
I love to work with people and share our ideas together. We all contribute and
end up making our dream into a reality. Communication
is also one of my main strengths. In order to collaborate, I have to have great
communication skills. If the group
doesn’t agree on something, we have to work it out professionally and in a
mature way. By communicating, we
worked out our problems and ended up being satisfied with one another.My weaknesses are project management and leadership.
I mostly need help from my peers in order to get the job done and when they
need my help, I will help them as much as I can but I will only contribute only
a little, soI lack leadership. Project
management is also pone of my weaknesses because I will try to finish my
projects in time but since there is so many ideas going on in my head, I end up
going a bit too excited and not getting my work done on time though it is
always done on time.
I improved this year by a lot. I learned how to use the
tools and how to manipulate them to the best of my ability. I improved with
also working with my peers. Before this year, I was more shy and I didn’t talk to
that many people. As the year went on, I got out of my shell and I was able to
communicate more with my peers and teacher.
I’m going to contribute what I learned this year by applying
it to my video class next year. I can make cool logos for the theme song. I can
also use my technical skills if I need something forclass project.
Things I would change this year if I could work with more
people. Get to know more people would’ve been great so I could’ve learned more
from them. So I could’ve heard their ideas and help make their ideas turn into
a reality.
In the end, I think I deserve an “A” in this class. I had a
lot of fun doing each project and I enjoyed sharing my ideas with Lofquist. She
helped me when I needed it. Even though some of my projects were late, I still
ended up doing more for my client. Each project satisfied my client and they
loved my project. My logo looked nice and they liked the movie poster I did for
them. With my peers, I helped as much as I could and collaborated greatly with
them.
In video production, we are getting into groups and doing a short film. The short film is the genre of each groups choice and my group decided to do a horror film. We had to cut the film into three acts and Act I is what we worked on for about 2 weeks.
In ActI, we introduced the characters and introduced the setting. We have Scarlett, Stacey, Heather, Brad, Jack, Becky, Alex, and Mr.Cooper. The students are spending a Friday night in detention and Mr. Copers watching over them. The students are in their own little groups, with the exception of Scarlett, since it is the first time she gets detention. Mr.Cooper goes ahead and checks everyone of the list and he explains the rules of detention. Then, he gets an unexpected phone call and has to leave the room.
So nothing is revealed so far in the story. Just the fact that Mr.Cooper had to leave the room and leave the students to themselves.
This is the first part of the short film and I hope you all enjoy it!!
So in Graphic Design we learned how to make a magazine cover in Indesign. This magazine consisted of doing a magazine cover with us being on it and choosing any kind of magazine brand of our choice. I decided to do Sports Illustrated since Im really into sports. Especially, (as you can see), soccer.
We started by taking photos anywhere we wanted. Once we got the picture we wanted, I put it in photoshop and started cropping it and fixing it to the right size it was supposed to be. Though it sounds easy enough to do, I had technical difficulties and had to re-do mine more than once and so the process was frustrating. Once I got it fixed I went and did the type. I looked up the fonts used in Sports Illustrated and placed it around. Since I had some limitations, I put the headline to the sides of my body since I saw there was more space. I changed the color of some
The project took about two weeks to finish. The first two days consisted of who was doing what for the video. This also included of what lyrics were going to be used and how we should do the music video. The next two days was story boarding. We then started filming the day after. Filming took about three days. Once we finished, I edited the video and Alex helped out by cutting the song to only the lyrics we wanted.
Making the music video was very fun and I enjoyed it a lot. I can't wait to do more videos and I hope you guys enjoy the music video!!
This is my creative poster! In
graphic design I had to make a poster that had a Saul Bass style. I decided to the Little Mermaid because I love the movie. I made my poster in Illustrator since I found it easier to do than in Indesign. The poster had to be at least three colors and simple. I took off the color of the original photo and kept it three shades of blue. The color of the text I decided to do red because in the Little Mermaid, the main characters hair is red.
The process of doing the poster wasn't all that complicated. I just put the image in Illustrator and took the color out so it would only be three shades of blue. I then colored in the body so it would b all black, including the rock. I added the tail in order to make it more clearer that the person on the rock was a mermaid and not just a random human.
This is what we did in graphic design and I hope you guys like it!!
