I think our video the is great because we put good music in it and many transitions. We put good tips and good reasons as to why the STAR tests are important and added a little humor. We also worked hard to put this video clip together.

Thinking About Our Final Values Video

This post is from Cristian.

The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from Jaay/Cassie and Alexis.

Jaay/Cassie told us that, "Once the music starts it adds to the tension of the situation", and that was helpful because it showed that our music helped emphasize the mood.

In addition, Alexis told us that,"AS the student walks out to the front of the room to the dorr to see if the teacher was in sight then it goes to a planning of the view poutside",and that helped us see that people liked that shot because more than one person said that they liked that shot.

The two best suggestions we got were from Zack/Sam and Bree/Liz

Zack/Sam suggested that we, "Should fade it our instead of letting it end abruptly." We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to at the end of the scene where the music is playing, we're gonna make it fade out.

Bree/Liz suggested that we, "Should have used a dissolved instead, because it would have showed time passing". We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to put a dissolve transition in the clip to make it show like time passed.

Over the Shoulder

For this video we filmed our own video, but this other group filmed over our clip and it got erased. Before we shot our own film, we made sure that it showed the person's shoulder and the person who was talking was at the rule of thirds. This video did follow the rule of thirds, and I think they did it so that people's eyes would switch from one person to another. I think the impression that these shots give is that the people are having a realistic, serious conversation because it keeps going back and forth. I don't think the dialogue was realistic because they talked in a monotone throughout the video. While editing the video, some challenges we faced was that one of the girls messed up a lot when she was doing her parts and we weren't sure which clips of hers to use. I think their tone was a serious tone because it didn't really have different emotions. Over the shoulder shots help show how a conversation would flow if it was happening in real life. Over the shoulder shots mostly help with a conversation in a scene because it keeps switching back and forth between the people taalking. It helps make the conversation a little more realistic.

Reflection on Holiday Greeting Video

After watching other people's videos I learned a lot about what we could've done to make the video better. First of all, we probably could've put some more humor and maybe filmed the video after school. I would've felt better and more relaxed if I could've filmed in front of less people. I think we did a good job in editing and the greenscreen, but I noticed some mistakes that I made. There's a part in the video where I stop for a second and try looking at what else I have to say. I think it would've been better if I didn't pause there. In the end credits, we put our citations, but we forgot to cite the photos of our backgrounds. Something I would want to change is the beginning title. It could've been better and have the words popping out with some effects in the words, much like the one Cassandra's video did. I also would've wanted to have just a bit more humor just to grab people's attention and to make the video more entertaining. In our group, I helped writing out the script and citing the few citations that we did get. My partner, Cesar, helped me to think of what to say in the script. He also helped me pick out the pictures and the music for the background. I helped Cesar by helping find information for his side of the project. After watching the other videos I found some things I would want to change in my video. I would've liked to use the cross dissolve effect to transition the clips. I would also probably like to have more of an up beat music playing in the back. Overall I think me and my partner did a great job editing this video with the little time that we spent trying to work on it.

Holiday Greenscreen

Green Screen

A green screen is a green backround that you put when making a video. The green screen helps you change the background so the video could look like its taking place somewhere else. When you film with a green screen, you have to make sure there are no wrinkles or shadows in the green screen because it could cause some problems. When I used Adobe After Effects, editing the green screen was easier. This workshop helped me learn how to use a green screen.

Cyberbullying Video

In this our video, I was mostly proud of the titles, the music, and the interviews that we have.
Some comments that helped were to split up the interviews to not make them too long.
In the final video, we put other title clips to split up Ms. Lomanto's interview.
Some other changes that I would put if we had a couple of more days would be to break up the other interview clips.
If we could've done this differently, I would want to put some comical relief.
I learned from this video that it's pretty hard to film, edit, and upload a video.
Overall, I think that this video came out great.