Practice Profile Story

We did a practice story that prepared us for our Elder Words of Wisdom project by interviewing our friend Imani about her plans for the future. We questioned her about her career plan along with her college plan. Her thoughts were very well organized and she said exactly what she was going to do if she could. She stated that she was going to go to a college in New York or Los Angelas where she would take performing arts programs to prepare for her auditions for movies and TV shows.

Composition Tecniques

Composition techniques are visually interesting shots that display images in different ways. There are four main composition techniques: rule of thirds, leading lines, unusual angles, and framing. Rule of thirds is where the subject is located in a frame on the thirds of the shots.  There are other less used composition techniques that include emotion, action, and repetition in shape. Composition techniques are commonly used in three shot sequences to prevent jump cuts and make the shots more interesting. Three shot sequences can be used in videos or photographs.

Profile Project Process

In GT we are interviewing Cambria's mom, Jessica, about nursing as a career. We shot B-roll at the hospital and the interview in an office space. We chose Jessica because she is very involved in her career and she cares and enjoys what she does as a living.

Shooting B-roll was a difficult task because we had to get lower shots that the tripod was not capable of reaching. So we had to come up with other solutions. We shot our B-roll a second time with better shots and no camera movement, it was very successful. With our new B-roll our video seems very complete.

To Edit this we used the Final Cut Pro. Program which is a professional editing system. We applied voice overs and cut imperfections in the interview. Our rough cut was completed this week which still needed a lot of editing and reshooting. We will complete our project by the due date which was extended an extra day which gives us plenty of time to do what we need to like editing our b-roll and replacing voiceovers.