Honestly, my group just kind of winged it. We had an idea of what to do and we went for it and  it worked. The planning was all in our heads. It was very sudden.

I don't think we followed the rule of thirds. It just slipped my mind.
For me, it gives me more of a personal connection with the characters who are speaking. I don't see them from afar and its just closer, more in a way where we'd see them in real life.

The dialogue is realistic but the acting was obvious acting. It didn't feel real and challenges we had in editing were the sound didn't work so we had to move to another computer.

There is no mood or tone. I think it's very bland.

I like them. For some reason, I thought they'd be harder to do than it is.

What other ideas got emphasized or reinforced about how to make effective videos from doing this exercise?
I just think you can see the reactions more and all. Since it was my first time, that's all I learned. If I did it more, I'd learn more.

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.

The video that made the biggest impression have to be Skyler's and Kenzie's. I liked how smooth and easy they were. I liked how they cropped the video and made it into two, kinda?

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I think I'm getting better at working with a partner. I'm more of an independant person, but working with a partner is more fun. I think I did a really good job at picking the videos, but that's just me. I'm happy with the way I get along with my parter. Teamwork is key in my eyes. I think I should have done a bit more editing with the video. But, class was almost over and all. If I could've done this project over, I would've made it more interesting and I would've added elevator music to it teehee. On my next project, I'd like to learn how to dop voice overs and stuff.
One way I helped my partner was I picked a lot of the videos since he was absent for one day. My partner helped me a lot by putting the titles and credits. On this project I gained a better idea on how to edit videos faster. What helped me figure this out was to just have more practice. Onwe challenge that was faced was that we had put some videos over each other and we had to start over. Thank goodness we saved over a  million times.
This is one of my favorite classes.