Monthly Archives: April 2019

1. What was your favorite project(s) during the semester? Please explain why: My favorite project this semester was the audio story. This is because I have always enjoyed writing scripts and performing them. When I was young I would write my own youtube videos which were mostly monologues of me talking about video games and sports. I am also in COM 300 right now and we do a lot of broadcast writing which is practically synonymous with the audition assignment. It was also fun to learn a new adobe software because I am familiar with premier pro and photoshop as well.
2. What skills did you learn in the course that you believe you will use in the future? : I believe that I will use photoshop in the future because I usually like to make funny edits of my friends and other pop-culture references. Photoshop is also useful for recreating logos and other advertisements for a company. I also think that creating a timeline for what you want to do with your company and interests is a good skill that I learned from this course.
3. What coursework or career path do you see in your future? What skills or projects from this class may be influential in your chosen career path? : I see myself as a journalist in the future. The skill of writing a story and storyboard is important to the success of myself as a journalist. Journalists need to know what they are writing about and how to organize information so that it is understandable for the reader. Another skill that may help my career path is writing these blog posts as they are a long form explanation of what we did in class.
4. Is there any skill that you wished you would have learned in this course that you did not learn? If yes, what skill is that? : I wish I would have learned more about the microsoft suite such as excel and powerpoint. While the adobe suite has many useful pieces of software the microsoft suite seems to be used more in an office setting. Knowing both of these would be beneficial rather than just using one of them. I.E. do excel and power point then photoshop and premier.
5. Did you find any websites or resources from outside the class material that were especially useful? : If I ever had a problem with the software YouTube was my go to site for figuring it out. Many of the YouTube tutorials were very helpful and easy to understand. The tutorials for the class were good but the YouTube tutorials were much more in depth and focused on more than just bare bones editing and such. I also used the adobe website sometimes as they have employees who monitor the forums for any troubleshooting or questions.
6. If you have any other thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc., please feel free to add them to your post : I felt that most of this class was useful but there were definitely some assignments that felt like busy work. I am specifically talking about the “raw footage” and “sketch” assignments. I felt that these really had no value to the assignment and were purely made just for having an assignment. Most of the time the draft would look completely different than the raw footage. This makes those menial assignments obsolete and I would urge to rethink a different assignment. Other than that this class was a pleasure.

IDEA AND INSPIRATION

I decided to create a mock newscast and advertisement for my project. This style works for my topic as my topic is a future company that I would like to pursuit later in life. Having a good and funny advertisement is very crucial in today’s media climate. Also the mock newscast works because my company focuses on the future of news and strays away from the traditional news platform. Mocking this type of news gives my company more credit in the long run

DESIGN PROCESS

Some design principles that I used were the use of transition cards. I have always thought that transition cards can be used in a meaningful and funny way. One of the prime examples of this is the way spongebob square-pants uses transition title cards for humor. Transition cards also show changes in time and ideas which is important. I researched how to make good title cards and found that they have to be simple and easy to read in order to be effective. If there is too much going on on a title card then it can become confusing and there is not as much of an impact on the audience. I also used black and white to show that the old way of news was bland and old. I loved the movie the Artist and other silent movies in black and white and they show that there is darkness, loss of time, dullness, and many other things that black and white can symbolize. My design process started with my recording the two main video clips and writing scripts for both of them. I am in COM 300 so I know that I need a decent amount of writing for a 30 second clip so I wrote a little more than I needed for both. I then created the title cards and made sure they looked good and were funny. Then lastly I added transitions and the black and white effect to the first clip. After receiving some suggestions I decided to put a title screen at the beginning of my video. This hopefully will clear up confusion for what my video is about and make it not just jump straight into the action without any foreword.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

I created all of the elements in my project besides the dubstep song used for my logo screen. I started by collecting all the raw details before I began even using premier. Once I had all the materials, I started from the beginning of my storyboard and went frame by frame through it. The techniques I used were cropping, video effects, video transitions, text tool, title tool, audio distortion to turn the gain down, and many other basic features of the software. I had some challenges when it came to making sure the transitions were good and lined up right. I went back and forth on whether deciding to use a straight cut or a fade or other transition as well. As for the software I had no real troubles at all besides the exporting. For my draft it was very easy to export but when I opened up the file again to change stuff around I could not for the life of me export. It took me about 45 minutes to finally figure out I needed the source files in the project in order to export. Tips I would give is to make sure that you have all your materials organized and the story lined up. Premier can be a very difficult software if you don’t know what you want to do with the software.

Royalty free music I used: 
https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/dubstep

IDEA AND INSPIRATION

I decided to create a mock newscast and advertisement for my project. This style works for my topic as my topic is a future company that I would like to pursuit later in life. Having a good and funny advertisement is very crucial in today’s media climate. Also the mock newscast works because my company focuses on the future of news and strays away from the traditional news platform. Mocking this type of news gives my company more credit in the long run

DESIGN PROCESS

Some design principles that I used were the use of transition cards. I have always thought that transition cards can be used in a meaningful and funny way. One of the prime examples of this is the way spongebob square-pants uses transition title cards for humor. Transition cards also show changes in time and ideas which is important. I researched how to make good title cards and found that they have to be simple and easy to read in order to be effective. If there is too much going on on a title card then it can become confusing and there is not as much of an impact on the audience. I also used black and white to show that the old way of news was bland and old. I loved the movie the Artist and other silent movies in black and white and they show that there is darkness, loss of time, dullness, and many other things that black and white can symbolize. My design process started with my recording the two main video clips and writing scripts for both of them. I am in COM 300 so I know that I need a decent amount of writing for a 30 second clip so I wrote a little more than I needed for both. I then created the title cards and made sure they looked good and were funny. Then lastly I added transitions and the black and white effect to the first clip.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

I created all of the elements in my project besides the dubstep song used for my logo screen. I started by collecting all the raw details before I began even using premier. Once I had all the materials, I started from the beginning of my storyboard and went frame by frame through it. The techniques I used were cropping, video effects, video transitions, text tool, title tool, audio distortion to turn the gain down, and many other basic features of the software. I had some challenges when it came to making sure the transitions were good and lined up right. I went back and forth on whether deciding to use a straight cut or a fade or other transition as well. As for the software I had no real troubles at all. Some tips I would give is to make sure that you have all your materials organized and the story lined up. Premier can be a very difficult software if you don’t know what you want to do with the software.

Royalty free music I used:
https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/dubstep