Video: Audio Project Blog

     For our second project, we had to do an interview with another student in our class. So first, we had to connect with the person we chose to be partners with. Then we had to learn a little bit about their subject and write 21 interview questions to ask them in a later interview.

     Writing the questions was probably the hardest part because you didn't get much information on their subject. They were only allowed to give us a 6 word summary. It was also difficult because the other person probably had question ideas in their head but they weren't allowed to share or give ideas. After we wrote the interview questions we got to interview! for the interview, it wasn't very difficult because we knew that the video part would be deleted so we didn't have to stress about the shot being perfect. Although it was difficulty to find a quiet place to interview, plus not all the microphones had clips so we had to hold it and it kind of messed up the sound. Once we interviewed, we had to write voiceover, which i thought were difficult because it was hard to come up with clever things to say that didn't give up what my partner was about to say. After we filmed voiceovers, we had to edit. Editing wasn't difficult because you just had to pull the audio from your voiceover and then pull the audio from the interview that correlated. The last thing we had to do was detach the audio and delete the video and TA-DA, an audio project!

     Along the way, i learned how to use a mic with the camera. All we had to do was attach a certain cable to the end of the camera and to the mic, then switch the inputs. The other thing i learned was how to frame an interview. For an interview, your interviewee has to be on the rule of thirds, they have to be looking into the blank space and you have to be looking at them (eye level).

     For my next project, i think i will try to frame interview a little bit better. I don't think the frame was tight enough. Another thing i will try and do is get better sound quality with the mic.

     In conclusion, I think this project was good for introducing interviews and working with microphones!

Blood Drive Critique

EVAN:

Positive- The voiceover sounds good; not monotoned
Negative- some of the sound levels aren't even and the video didn't end in a quote

NICK:

Positive- The L&J edits are really good

Negative- You cant hear the voiceovers much at all

ALLYSON:

Positive- Rule of thirds is followed

Negative- needs nat noise behind voiceovers

COURTNEY:

Positive- The camera is really steady

Negative- Try to get more interesting B-Roll

DEMA: 

Positive- Rule of thirds is followed

Negative- The sound levels need to be more even

ROSIE:

Positive- The opening voiceover is good with the statistic

Negative- The camera is shaky

KIRSTEN:

Positive- The rule of thirds is followed

Negative- The volume levels need to be more even

RYLEE: 

Positive- The L&J edits are good

Negative- There is a little bit of a gap between each interview and voiceover

CATHERINE: 

Positive- Rule of thirds is good

Negative- Voiceovers are too monotoned

ALEX:

Positive- Voiceovers are good

Negative- Not many interviews

MITCH:

Positive- You were good at getting the interviewees to give long answers

Negative- The volume levels need to be more even

NICOLE:

Positive- The L&J edits are good

Negative- Rule of thirds needs to be followed more in the first interview

DREW:

Positive- Interviews are good

Negative- Needs nat noise behind the voiceovers

EMILY:

Positive- L&J edits are good

Negative- Volume levels need to be more even

CONLIN: 

Positive- Needs more than one interview

Negative- Needs longer voiceovers

CYLE:

Positive- L&J edits are good

Negative- make sure interviews don't overlap voiceovers

JACOB:

Positive- Camera is steady

Negative- VO's need to be less monotoned

ABBEY: 

Positive- Opening VO is good and informative

Negative- Seemed really short

AMY: 

Positive- I like the opening VO
Negative- Volume levels could be louder

CHELSEY:

Positive- L&J edits are good

Negative- On Sophia's interview, cut out where she is just sitting at the beginning

ALYSSA:

Positive- The interviews are good and have lots of words

Negative- All volume levels need to be even

As a group, most of our videos are pretty good. We could all use some work on the L&J edits and making all the sound levels even. I know I personally need to recheck all my sound levels and make my L&J edits more obvious. But other than that I think our class as a whole did pretty good

OAP Projects

For our final project in e9, we had to come up with a product and product information including an animation, ad, coupon, web banner, website and a commercial. In my group, OAP, our product was scented socks. So, the obvious route for our commercial was going to be comedy. In our commercial we had basically a "good guy" and a "bad guy", and they both have socks. The good guy has OAP scented socks and the bad guy has nasty smelly socks. They both go around giving people their socks and then they meet and realize what the other one has. So then they begin to battle. And of course the OAP scented socks win.

For our animation and actual project, these are our socks. We actually had a lot of trouble making these because we couldn't get the shape we wanted and still make it look good. So at first i just started with a block. We then pushed aways the from so it resembles a sock (a very square sock). Next i rounded out the toe. Then i ended by rounding out the heel and the fold in the front.

For our web banner, i had this image just of something very simple. So, i thought : why not just circles? so i started out with just plain round circles and it didn't look anything like i wanted it too. So i deleted most of them. I then started to add some more but this time i made them different sizes and shapes and it look so much better!! then mrs. Lofquist suggested that i out some of the circles inside of the letters. It was so much harder than i thought it would have been. So we didn't actually end up filling the shapes, but we actually did circles around the shaped and then zoomed in all way in and made the circles small enough that it would fit behind the letters so it looked like we filled them in. Thats what i did to make our web banner.

For our animation we decided to make a box that would show off our project, but not draw too much attention to the box or the product itself. So we made a box with a clear front. This enables you too see the box and the product at the same time but you aren't drawn to either one more than the other. For the inside of the box, we decided to go with the color red because, even though our color scheme is green, our logo is red. So we wanted to make the inside of or box match our logo so we had something to match our logo. Also, red is a complimentary color to green, therefore, the two colors went very well together.  For our setting, Mr. Sappingfield told us "I'm imagining giant pieces of fruit next to your socks!". So thats what we did. We decided to add some large pieces of fruit besides our sock to incorporate some of the scents it comes in. That was what we did in our animation rotation.

Also in our graphic design rotation we were required to make a coupon. Our coupon is good for $10 of of one pair of OAP Scented Socks. For this the only problem that had was getting the socks to have as much space on the sides and the text does on the there side. But once i figure it out i just put the text, logo and image on and i was done!

This year in e9 i learned to much and I'm so thankful for everyone that was able o help me through and teach me new things! Thank you for an amazing first year of e-Comm!!

Legos

Some legos are hard to put together. But most of the time there pretty easy. However its made a little bit harder when your not allowed to use words or look at the picture or only have little pieces of the instructions. Some things that worked were putting the top and bottom halts together separately an then combining them. Some things that didn't work were no being able to talk and only having one picture. To complete this project we had to work as a team. Also working as a team made it easier to complete the project

Website

Well  didn't have time to finish this project but from what I got done I learned about imbedding links, adding color, and making the headings and text look different. For imbedding links you had to type the link in the "link" box at the bottom. That was kinda tough because you had to make sure you had in exactly the same or it wouldn't have gone to the right link. To make it different cools you had to go into the coding and type in background color or color, then type the color you want and press enter. Then you can go to design view and what ever color you put in should be there.To make all the text look different, and be different

House

In animation, we made a house in sketch up. We had to make sure all the windows and doors and all the other components of a house looked real. It was a really difficult project cause you had to make sure everything was the exact same size and was aligned in the exact same place

Animation Video

So i just recently started animation! We had to create a 200+ slide animation in Keynote. Sp i thought it would be a fun idea to make a video on how a chick hatches out of an egg and crosses the road to be with his family, and yes it is why the chicken crossed the road. After we made it we had to export it as images and into iMovie. We then had to change the duration (time on each slide), and add music. And tada! A 30 second animation