Final Assignment-Keeping Busy in Saskatoon

Keeping Busy in Saskatoon

I had a great time shooting this video.  I learned a lot about what it takes to make a video. I was typing up my script on my iPad on a flight and the person I was sitting beside me, asked me if I was a famous writer.  I responded "not yet."  

This video did not go without some hitches.

I was trying to get a shot of a plane landing at the Saskatoon airport, so I was on a side road, staring at an open field.  The sign did say "Restricted Area" but I thought that may have meant the field.  It did not.  I was confronted by a security person who asked me what I was doing.  Rather than explain that I was shooting a video for this class, I told her I was listening to a news report.  She left me alone and I drove away.

I realize that the video is somewhat "robotic."  The voices were created on a website-Voki.   

Shot Selection Assignment 2

This was somewhat of a tough assignment for me because of the talent that I was using.  I had to shoot this over a number of days and let's just say that the boys were somewhat uncooperative at times.  I ended up going over budget with this assignment, having to purchase two Skylanders.

I went for shots and not quality obviously.  I do have a bit of a story but when you are working with a 6 and 4 year old, it is tough for them to do lines-so there is some ad lib.  

There are two videos-one contains the majority of the shots (I had all of them at one time).  I am not sure how they were erased.  I gave the oldest boy the video camera as a bribe on one of the days to shoot random things.  I guess I must have erased some of my shots.  Be that as it may, I had to add them to the second assignment.

The shot order:

0:00-Title

0:09-Pan Still Object

0:16-Pan-Swish Pan

0:20-Single light (from bottom)

0:20-Medium shot

0:28-Zoom in

0:43 Cut away

1:09-Cut in

1:26-Rule of Thirds

1:26-2 lights

1:38-Selective Focus

1:42-Special effect                                                                                                      

1:50-Objective perspective

2:03-Wipe shot

2:05-Dolly shot

2:09-Reportorial

2:21-Selective Focus

2:16-Balance shot

2:20-Trucking

2:28-Tilt

2:40 Extreme Close up

2:48-Long shot

2:48-Pan moving object

2:58-Flat angle

3:03-Subjective perspective

3:09-High angle shot

3:18-Low angle

3:55-Close up

3:56-Establishing shot

3:56-4:23-Three Lights

3:57-Medium shot

4:03-Close up

4:12-Establishing shot

The Ones that Never Made the Reel 

0:00-Follow focus
0:08-Swish Pan
0:13-Zoom out
0:17-Tail away
0:21-Head on

Script for Keeping Busy in Saskatoon Assignment 3

This is a link to my google doc for the script

Google doc script

Number one Assignment 879

The video I chose to show some iPhone 5 tips can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QStcrYPETc

I chose this video because I am always looking up tips on the internet for various things.  There are several instructional videos that say they will give you tips but are just kids joking around.  This one was not like that.

The video was appropriate for the delivery of the information.  The iPhone is on display in the accompaniment of the voice.  Posting the video on Youtube allows for easy access to the informational video.

What I found worked in the video:

The length of the video I felt was appropriate. It wasn’t too long and there was not an overabundance of information to sort through.  I felt the pace was good.  I was able to watch the video and try the tips as the instructor is discussing what he is doing.

What could be better:

There were far too many distractions.  When the author asked what was on the back of his iPhone, I thought he was joking around.  It was maybe too casual for me.  I believe at one point he received a text while he was explaining.  He should have shut that off.  I found it very funny that he was giving an instructional video on how to do some things on the iPhone and he had a pop up appear on his screen and he did not know how to get rid of it.  If I did not know a lot about iPhones, he might have lost his credibility.  For me it is like going to the doctor when you have a cold and the doctor is sick. 

I was very distracted by the script or the lack of one.  There were a lot of words repeated and there was so much extra “chat”.    

Some of the video at the beginning was out of focus and a little hard to see.  Another thing that I found distracting was when the instructor was talking, he would move his hand, this caused the phone to move with the hand. 

The instructor did go through a variety of functions and apps of the new iPhone, however was not a hundred per cent sure on how they work and did not give great demonstrations of the applications of the tools.  He gave mixed messages, particularly with the map feature.  He showed how it displayed and in the next breath said how he was looking forward to the update. 

The video is shot fairly decently.   There was not a lot of variation in the angles.  The angles only changed when the hand moved.  The lighting was good and the background was not distracting.  What the instructor talked about some of the functions of the ios in the iPhone 5 was good and it was a brief overview which was nice.  Had he scripted it and stopped his hand from moving all over the place, it would have been better.  

 I can see how young kids would like this video as the instructor has that pop culture type of language. It does have around 180, 000 hits.