This time, Team 007 decided to take a look at the Democratic Primary Election. We had interviews with the future Vice President of the College Democrats and the department head, Professor June Speakman.
Difficulties in this shoot:
1. Getting the right spot for some of the interviews. As previously found, Roger Williams University isn't the best place to shoot video due to the wind off the water. We tried our best and I have to say I thought the results were satisfactory.
2. Finding relevant B-roll. We spent so much time finding video of the presidential candidates that I believe it doubled the amount of time we spent editing the video.
Enjoy this look into the College Democrats and discussion on the Democratic Primary Elections:
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Hilary Wehner Interview
This week, Team 007, interviewed Hilary Wehner. Hilary is a member of the RWU Pep Band, performs in the Sunday Mass, and wrote the new Roger Williams University fight song. She has been playing Clarinet for over twelve years and hopes to continue for many more.
Difficulties in this shoot:
1. The Lighting: I was shooting in the afternoon and had to find a good spot on campus to shoot the footage. I walked around looking for a room that was open with good sized windows so I could get natural light into the shot. I finally found where I wanted to shoot, in the New Academic Building on campus. As you will see in the video the light comes in lightly, but theres no other sounds and there's a solid color behind her.
2. Finding the person: Since we were late finding the person for this weeks shoot, I scurried and found someone through the music department. Luckily, I heard back from her before the deadline.
3. Using Two Cameras: I decided to use two cameras to increase my angles in the clip. I ended up only using the two angles in the performance and next time I do an Interview I will know that's all I really need them for.
4. Editing: This was a nightmare. I took the footage at over four minutes long and condensed it into a one minute and thirty second package. I first made separate videos of each of her performances, then I edited the interview down, then I synced the performance over her interview. Both the interview and the performance have motion techniques put into the shoot in post processing.
5. The lack of a team: I shouldn't wine about this because they both made an effort on Tuesday night to come down after their duties and supported this story. It was difficult planning the interview, writing the memo, shooting the interview with the client, and then editing the video. I would say that this whole process took about 8 to 10 hours this week. Its disappointing things couldn't of worked out better, so that I wouldn't have to carry the load. But, I'm sure both of them will make it up to me with next weeks package. I still think highly of both of them and we will continue to make excellent news.
Outlook:
Next week, Team 007 will have another exciting news package. So check back for more!
Difficulties in this shoot:
1. The Lighting: I was shooting in the afternoon and had to find a good spot on campus to shoot the footage. I walked around looking for a room that was open with good sized windows so I could get natural light into the shot. I finally found where I wanted to shoot, in the New Academic Building on campus. As you will see in the video the light comes in lightly, but theres no other sounds and there's a solid color behind her.
2. Finding the person: Since we were late finding the person for this weeks shoot, I scurried and found someone through the music department. Luckily, I heard back from her before the deadline.
3. Using Two Cameras: I decided to use two cameras to increase my angles in the clip. I ended up only using the two angles in the performance and next time I do an Interview I will know that's all I really need them for.
4. Editing: This was a nightmare. I took the footage at over four minutes long and condensed it into a one minute and thirty second package. I first made separate videos of each of her performances, then I edited the interview down, then I synced the performance over her interview. Both the interview and the performance have motion techniques put into the shoot in post processing.
5. The lack of a team: I shouldn't wine about this because they both made an effort on Tuesday night to come down after their duties and supported this story. It was difficult planning the interview, writing the memo, shooting the interview with the client, and then editing the video. I would say that this whole process took about 8 to 10 hours this week. Its disappointing things couldn't of worked out better, so that I wouldn't have to carry the load. But, I'm sure both of them will make it up to me with next weeks package. I still think highly of both of them and we will continue to make excellent news.
Outlook:
Next week, Team 007 will have another exciting news package. So check back for more!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Seniors Advice to Freshmen
This past week, Team 007 put together a new news package. The package can be seen below. In this video, we questioned senior students at Roger Williams University and asked them what they wished they knew when they were freshmen. Some answers were funny and some were quite interesting.
Problems during shoot:
Our team ran into some problems at the beginning since we couldn't get very many women to appear in our video. We edited the video so that the two women who did give us some comments were split apart to create an allusion of more females in the shoot. Another problem we ran into was the wind. At Roger Williams University, we are located right next to the water and the wind is often fairly strong. It created some difficulties in our interviews and when you watch the clip you will hear some of the students being cut off.
The other problem we ran into while editing was how to probably do the transitions. We tried to make them as short as possible with still allowing the viewer catch the number on the screen. It could have been better but it suited its purpose.
What we learned:
Our team has to do a better job of blocking out the wind. Whether it be surrounding the microphone or using rubber around it, something has to be done. Also we thought it would be interesting if we did a unique closing, but it made our team look like amateurs. These are supposed to be professional news stories and this one was not up to par. Finally, we learned some techniques in this editing cycle that will hopefully help us with our next video.
If you want to view these videos on Youtube, search mcovill0511 or RWUdigitalmedia, the videos as well as blooper videos can be seen on Youtube.
In case you can't view the video these were the ten tips by the seniors:
1. Make good friends with the RA's.
2. How to sneak beers past the RA's.
3. Don't come to school with high school girlfriend.
4. "Don't be a fool, wrap your tool".
5. Get involved.
6. Spend less time napping.
7. Health services sells condoms six for a dollar.
8. ( Joke response )
9. Don't slack off and keep your grades up.
10. Be yourself.
Problems during shoot:
Our team ran into some problems at the beginning since we couldn't get very many women to appear in our video. We edited the video so that the two women who did give us some comments were split apart to create an allusion of more females in the shoot. Another problem we ran into was the wind. At Roger Williams University, we are located right next to the water and the wind is often fairly strong. It created some difficulties in our interviews and when you watch the clip you will hear some of the students being cut off.
The other problem we ran into while editing was how to probably do the transitions. We tried to make them as short as possible with still allowing the viewer catch the number on the screen. It could have been better but it suited its purpose.
What we learned:
Our team has to do a better job of blocking out the wind. Whether it be surrounding the microphone or using rubber around it, something has to be done. Also we thought it would be interesting if we did a unique closing, but it made our team look like amateurs. These are supposed to be professional news stories and this one was not up to par. Finally, we learned some techniques in this editing cycle that will hopefully help us with our next video.
If you want to view these videos on Youtube, search mcovill0511 or RWUdigitalmedia, the videos as well as blooper videos can be seen on Youtube.
In case you can't view the video these were the ten tips by the seniors:
1. Make good friends with the RA's.
2. How to sneak beers past the RA's.
3. Don't come to school with high school girlfriend.
4. "Don't be a fool, wrap your tool".
5. Get involved.
6. Spend less time napping.
7. Health services sells condoms six for a dollar.
8. ( Joke response )
9. Don't slack off and keep your grades up.
10. Be yourself.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Construction Chaos
Over the course of the last week, my team members and I had the honor of doing a news story about the on going campus construction. Speaking of my team members, our team is called "Team 007". This is very appropriate and given my incredible enjoyment in the James Bond series I was happy with this name. My team consists of myself, Joanna, and Ben. I believe most of the time I'll be doing video editing, but they've expressed interest and hopefully that can give editing an attempt.
We started our goal of creating our news story by declaring exactly what we wanted to cover. After we were cleared and ready to go, we started collecting B-roll for our shoot. Unlucky for us, both days of our shoot were plagued with rain and dark clouds, rendering most of our footage in a muddy afterglow.
When we first started shooting on Friday morning we were nervous about our plan of action since there was no construction going on. We took a few shots and actually two of them ended up in the final video. If you look closely at the road work ahead sign since near the end of the video, you can see my image reflected in the sign. I hadn't noticed that during the shoot, but once editing came I was almost just going to abandon the shot altogether. Friday's work concluded with some general script writing.
We made plans to get to campus early on Monday morning to catch the commute. When I arrived at 9:30, it wasn't as congested as I would've wanted, but as you can see in the final project we certainly made due. We got a majority of our major footage in the morning and the interview was conducted in the afternoon. We couldn't of cut it any closer to the deadline, as Team 007 was editing the script right up until 8pm, giving me an hour to piece together the story. I'm very happy with our results and I think this team will continue to produce high quality video news. Look for the Bloopers video on Youtube, if you'd like to see one of the interviews we had to cut out.
The video itself deals with construction on campus and the headaches students are facing as a result. The construction is for new sewer lines because of a new student dorm going up for the Fall of 2009. Also seen is clips of the ongoing work, an interview with Joesph Pangborn, and sketches of what the new dorm will look like at the end of the construction.
Team 007 presents: Construction Chaos
We started our goal of creating our news story by declaring exactly what we wanted to cover. After we were cleared and ready to go, we started collecting B-roll for our shoot. Unlucky for us, both days of our shoot were plagued with rain and dark clouds, rendering most of our footage in a muddy afterglow.
When we first started shooting on Friday morning we were nervous about our plan of action since there was no construction going on. We took a few shots and actually two of them ended up in the final video. If you look closely at the road work ahead sign since near the end of the video, you can see my image reflected in the sign. I hadn't noticed that during the shoot, but once editing came I was almost just going to abandon the shot altogether. Friday's work concluded with some general script writing.
We made plans to get to campus early on Monday morning to catch the commute. When I arrived at 9:30, it wasn't as congested as I would've wanted, but as you can see in the final project we certainly made due. We got a majority of our major footage in the morning and the interview was conducted in the afternoon. We couldn't of cut it any closer to the deadline, as Team 007 was editing the script right up until 8pm, giving me an hour to piece together the story. I'm very happy with our results and I think this team will continue to produce high quality video news. Look for the Bloopers video on Youtube, if you'd like to see one of the interviews we had to cut out.
The video itself deals with construction on campus and the headaches students are facing as a result. The construction is for new sewer lines because of a new student dorm going up for the Fall of 2009. Also seen is clips of the ongoing work, an interview with Joesph Pangborn, and sketches of what the new dorm will look like at the end of the construction.
Team 007 presents: Construction Chaos
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