Evaluation

What happened good for the Video Project?

• The making of the props and how they turned out, and using simple materials to create ideas on props.
• The ideas at the start of the project and how we gathered many ideas all at once
• The filming went good as well, we finished filming in one day even if we were short of people for film from our group,and how it took a little while to move the objects around to get small little movements for each object.
• The Pre Production was good as well since we all had our different tasks , as the tasks were split up we got it done much faster than expected. Since we were all focusing on different things
• The research for the deeper meaning of the song Somewhere Over The Rainbow for our power point presentation was good too. As we put all our Risk Assessments, Mood Boards, Storyboards, and a list of shots that we could use in our video. We found out that if the people in Germany were gay they would wear a pink triangle on their pocket of the uniform. So we included the star of David and small pink triangles in remembrance of them. Also because of the LGBTQ community, which was what we had to somehow include into our video.

What went Wrong?

• For me personally the editing didn’t go well, as I didn’t know how to use it properly and it was confusing with all the tools. I tried to learn and I learnt a bit but I still found it difficult. I also had some help on editing it from Mia in my team, and some other help from another team, since I didn’t really understand it well. I didn’t want delete something by accident, and ruin it or accidentally delete the whole thing and have to start again.
• At times things were confusing for the team as some of us didn’t know what we were doing, and had lost track on what others had done but we all got there in the end
• When we uploaded the video on YouTube it was quite grainy, and not clear which annoyed me
• While I was editing my own version of the video on Premier Pro, as I was going to save it, the software had crashed and I lost everything as the computer froze. I had to shut down the whole computer which meant I lost it all. As I had to redo the whole editing process again on the following Monday.

How will you improve for next time?

I will improve for next time by having a better planning structure for myself and my team. I will also try and get ahead of time and try not to go backwards as that’s what happened and lots of things had caught up with us. Because some people weren’t here while i’ve been here for the whole thing ,and even had some ideas of my own to actually make this video project work. But had others input of other ideas to help me, but I have kind of been the leader for this video project, as I told people what they needed to do and how I kept all the stuff in my folder; so its all safe and others from my team can get it as well. I can sort of organise things and multi task with what i’m doing.

In conclusion I found this video project a mixture of feelings, as I liked the filming of the project. Making the props from using materials from art to create what we can see visually. With the filming I liked how we moved the props around on the background and we could see what was in frame and what wasn’t. But I didn’t really like the editing and having to do a lot of Pre Production, because that took some time when I just wanted to film it. Then do post production straight after, but I wouldn’t say this project was my favourite out of the other 4 we’ve done.

I prefer the Audio project over this project. At the moment my favourite projects were either Photography or the Audio projects as I found my strength in them. My weaknesses could be shown from the Graphic Design and Video project; as i’m not really creative from my hands and doing drawings and editing software’s. So I found it more difficult, but these skills are just being built up for me to use for the final media project that i’ll be doing soon.