Feature Story PT2

         Bonjour Mes Amines!! Comment Ca va??? Je suis très fatigue mais Je m'amuse! Hello my friends! How are all of you? This week my school did a really cool lip dub and today is also the blood drive. Speaking of blood drive, I recently did a interview/feature story over the blood drive that is happening currently at my school. Our assignment was to interview two people who were outside of our class and do a story over something that wasn't class related. We were originally going to do something over community service but then we choose to dive deeper and focus on the blood drive.

Process

So the first couple ideas were over community service, they were really board ideas and we didn't exactly have a great plan. Then we got three ideas about community service but we thought those were too far apart, they didn't connect well with each other. Two of my group members were in Student council and suggested doing something about the week of giving so we hen cut down our giant community service idea to a much smaller idea over the topic of our school blood drive. A bunch of ideas were thrown around on who to interview and what bRoll we should get but we settled on our very own stucco president, Austin and his vise president Sydney. They were both very helpful and nice during the whole process of interviewing and Austin was extremely helpful because he had to get interviewed twice due to tech issues. My group didn't have a whole bunch of free time to film, a group member and I were apart of the school musical and the other person named Kevin was busy with his school commitments so were got everything filmed last Tuesday and we all edited last Thursday to turn the whole project in on Friday. Editing was pretty ok. I couldn't use my computer half the time because this other person was constantly using it, but I made due with putting it on the server and editing it somewhere else. I did have to restart a few times because of glitches and I couldn't find my clips but I got it done.

Learned

I learned a lot during this project. I earned how to handle some what difficult group members and I also learned that if I need to ask something or say something to ask it and not be so nervous. Deadlines were hard to do in this project but I learned how to use my time to the fullest so that I can get stuff done. I learned how to add graphics (Names) into my project to introduce someone and I thinkI better understand how to do voiceovers but I am still not sure on how to do it entirely. It is stil a very confusing topic to me. I now know how to add in a delayed lead into my story so that it can add some extra interest andmake it bit different.

Changes

I would definitely change the way I edited my video. I don't like it and I do't think it flows nicely or gets the info across. I would also change the voiceovers. Sophia did a fantastic job but I kinda wanted to do it myself so I could learn how to do it correctly and it would've also sounded better for my story instead of having Sophia do it and I have to fit in her voiceovers. I would really just like to re edit it again but I have no time since I am working on a really big animation project and a really important English video.

Keep Same

I wouldn't like to change my group. Kevin and Sophia were wonderful to work with and I think that everything came together nicely despite out time constraint. I also liked the topic we had, I think it was very important and it was fun to do. I really do like some parts of my video but I'm not a huge fan of the way I did everything.

Experiences 

  This was once again a great experience that I have had in eComm. I really liked working with everyone and the projects are always fun to do no matter how stressed I am.


Thank you for reading and I hope you all are having a great start to this holiday season!
Sophie the First.