PSA

This project has been quite an enlightening experience. I have enjoyed working with my group. Everyone has been very conscientious about getting our project finished and wanting to turn in a quality piece of work. It requires a leap of faith to turn a portion of a project over to another person; as teachers we are used to being the person in charge, the person driving the action.
Learning how to actually make a video has been very exciting, and it gives you a greater appreciation of all of the work entailed in making a film or even a short music video. It also has portions of tedium (How many times do I actually have to view the video before I notice everything in each shot?), but in the end the attention to detail pays off. I also learned a lot about the actual filming process, the hard way; the day we filmed I was pushing to get it finished, and I filmed the outside scenes on a rainy, overcast day about dusk. I had gone to Baton Rouge for the day, and I just wanted to get it DONE. I was concerned that we wouldn’t have enough time to edit if I didn’t get the video into the Dropbox ASAP. (I want to emphasize that the pressure to get the filming finished so quickly was self-imposed; it did not come from my group partners.) I learned that there truly is no substitute for good lighting. I had read about this in week 3: “Nothing spoils a video shoot as much as poor lighting “ (Hendricks, n.d., Lighting, lighting, lighting, para. 1). I should have followed his instructions. Tim spent needless hours trying to lighten up the video, and in the end, the outside scenes had to be refilmed a week later anyway. The scenes filmed in the bright daylight were a thousand times better. I should have just been patient and waited for a day with good light. The process of having to refilm brought us down to the wire anyway. I feel badly about causing unnecessary work and pressure on my team. Patience is a virtue; I’ll work on it! Overall, I found the group experience to be very positive, and look forward to another group project. I hope my partners feel the same.

Hendricks, G. (n.d.) Guidelines for shooting quality video. Desk-top-Video-Guide. Retrieved December 15, 2011 from http://www.desktop-video-guide.com/shoot-video.html

Here is the link to our video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HsH-g6GCU0&context=C37634e5ADOEgsToPDskKfsQMfphFSmc8jyc0n71Ho