Wednesday, January 11, 2012

1. Review the comments you made about other videos. In looking at and thinking about these, what do you feel you and your partner did a good job on? Consider all elements, including the story, the images, the editing, the sound, titles, credits and copyright, and your creativity. I think my partner was a great actor. I liked how he seemed to be cold when his background was in the snow. I liked how he spaced things out and all.

2. What would you like to have done that you saw in two other groups’ videos? Why did you especially like what those groups did? I saw one where this girl was alone. That would've been a lot easier haha. I also really liked Luis' video from block one. He acutally changed his name.
3. What specifically did you do to create your group’s video?
I made all of the cards where it had what we were going to say. I made a lot of the script and I picked the bacjground. Dillon did a lot of the editing but I helped with that as well

4. How did you help your partner? How did your partner help you?
My partner helped me with the script. He also was a great actor and edited a lot of it. I helped him with that also.

5. What would you do differently if you had another chance to complete this project?
I think I would dress my part and maybe do other holidays.


1. I never really noticed how much music can affect the mood of things. The sad piano in the beiginning really made me sad.
2. Talking fast can make people confused and lose track of what's going on.
3. Once I saw kids my age talking about it, I took it a bit more seriously.


4. The part when showing the location really means a lot because it shows it can happen anywhere.
5. The angles of seeing the people from far away kind of have the same effect of reason 4. I really like it though, sometimes.


Describe how a green screen works.
The green screen works like this. You need a lime green background and then you stand in front of it, you act what you'd like, record it, and then upload it onto the computer. You need to get it onto premiere pro, click a few clicks and do something with sliverlight key or something and then edit the colors and pick a picture, and you're done! It looks like you're there... kinda.
What are the important considerations in filming with a green screen?
Make sure you don't wear any green. That's a must. You have to make sure that theres nothing else in the area you're working in. It can ruin all the greenscreen if there's a weird shadow or something in the way.
What are the problems that can arise when trying to eliminate a green screen background?
If you're trying to eliminate green screen, you can make your edges pretty weird and they won't look right. If you fix the shadows wrong, you could ger background on your clothes!
Which technique was easier--using Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects?
I like premiere pro more. I guess it was because I was used to it more and I just think it was a lot easier to use.
Other thoughts?
The acting was awesome :) I also liked doing this.


I'm most satisfied with the way all of our interviews came out. They all kind of went together and helped us get our point of awareness out there.I really enjoyed all of the compliments but I liked all the criticism like that we should work more on sound. We were having a lot of problems with that.
We made a lot of changes to our final video. We added the name things and we also fixed the sounds. We added music in the background and it all sounded nice. If I had another dfay or two, I'd add more detail to it. I'd do the names differently or I'd work more on sound. Making it sound all the same. If given the chance to do this all over, I'd get with the same group and I think we would all do more on how you can stop it instead of just telling you about it. I'd do more editing and we would make it so awesome. I learned that making videos is a ton of hard work but it's all worth it. It's awesome and its so much fun. Creating things is awesome hehehehe. I thought my video was awesome basically because it was mine. I loved the group I worked with and I would do it all over again. I learned a lot more about how editing works and it will honestly be useful in the future.