(Don'Wow. I know may have mentioned once or twice that I am moving. Well, the moving truck came on Thursday, and we moved out of our house and into a hotel on Friday. We will be parked here until next Tuesday, when we take three planes to our final destination: Israel!
Ok, so let's think about this equation: (Hotel + Hotel Wi-Fi + 3 adorable distractions) x Capstone Video = A boatload of fun! A few of you have mentioned in comments that you are facing similar dilemmas this quarter, so I feel good knowing we are all in this together! I chose youtube editor for my video editor. Three reasons: I was all ready vaguely familiar with it, my husband is very familiar with it, and I have a chromebook. I don't have time to learn a new interface at this moment. Youtube editor was pretty user friendly, I only needed to watch the tutorial three times and ask my husband about ten questions. All in all, I would say I am a fan. The tricky part was designing the cards that cut into my video. I tried a few things, but due to time constraints and familiarity I used Screencastify. There was probably something easier to use, but it did the job pretty well. The editing took the longest past. I ended up with about six minutes of video and I would say it took two hours of editing alone to create a usable product. My video clocks in at 2.04. I made three mistakes I wish I could fix, and it makes me cringe when I watch the video, but to fix it, I think I would have to go back to the start. That said, I am going to give myself a solid B for the final product. You can find my final product here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OezAnzfMxtw&edit=vd
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My husband is an enormous fan of Casey Neistat. For those of you who have not been introduced, go meet him here. Given this insider information, I enlisted my husband's help for this week's assignment. If left to my own devices, my six year old would be filming me on my Nexus 5x, which means my raw footage would have been a close up of my chin or the top of my head. My husband would help to ensure that I had something worthy of all the work I have done here in this cohort. I have long held that my husband and I would never work well together in a work kind of environment, but I was willing to sacrifice any sense of peace of hearth and home for an A in this class. I am just that dedicated. SCRIPT I managed to wheedle my script down to 2 1/2 minutes. I am hoping to shave off more time in the post-production process, but I thought better more to work with than less. If I have too little, I don't want to have to go back and film more footage. My movers come on Thursday and I am in transition for the next ten days after that, so that wouldn't be pretty. Pre-Production: I waited for my husband to set the stage. May have been better not to wait for him. He is something of a micro manager, and he didn't really understand the elevator speech vision vs. Oscar worthy documentary. This took some time to work through. Once we settled that, we had to clean. The bookcase filled with serious tomes is covered in My Little Ponies, Legos, and Starbucks cups. That took some work to sweep away. Then, of course, the star had to get ready. By the time we were ready to film, it was 10.30 at night. Sigh. Production: My husband is the Stanley Kubrick of directors. I am the Stephen King of listeners. For those of you who don't know about the 36 year old feud that revolves around the classic film The Shining, learn about it. It is the stuff of legend. Needless to say, our visions still didn't align during production. We managed to work through our differences and he had some great suggestions. Per his advice, I used my computer as teleprompter and set that in front of the camera, so that my line of sight closely matches the camera lens. There are awkward moments in the raw footage where I stand up to scroll my teleprompter, but he says we will work that out in post-production. Post-Production: I need to add B Roll Footage, Music, and Factoid Card. I need to create my Factoid cards and choose the images for my B Roll footage. I need to edit out all the awkward pauses in my 3 minutes of raw footage I collected. Hopefully, I will have 90 seconds of something at the end of all of this. P.S. My husband really insists that I mention that my footage was shot on a DSLR camera. I have no idea what that means, but it's a cool looking camera. 8:00 a.m. (Kids playing on Leap Pad, with a 30 minute timer) What editor to use? In deciding upon an editor, I have a few challenges to address:
9:00 a.m. (One fight into the morning and they are now settled with breakfast. Let’s see how long this lasts): Ok, so I would guess that before you can storyboard, you need some kind of script. I wrote out a rough draft of the ideas I would like to convey in my elevator pitch. Reading that out loud came out to be 4.5 minutes. Ouch, way too long. I am not even going to bother story boarding until I have trimmed my script enough to fit into 90-120 seconds of material. 1:00 p.m. (After a morning of chalk art, applesauce breaks, and a gazillion interruptions): Well, it really is only a first draft, why am I driving myself crazy? Let’s just hammer something out before bedtime. I am going to look at some other storyboard ideas...let’s see...Andrew put something up. 3 minutes and 180 seconds of self-doubt later: Why did I look at Andrew’s storyboard? It’s like asking for trouble. I mean let’s be honest, his stuff is always amazing. Now I am going to sit here and think: I so cannot pull something together like that. Andrew: you are awesome, don’t take this personally, and it really is an awesome story board. 1 episode of Paw Patrol later: Let’s review the ICARE document...what the heck is a B-Roll? Ha ha ha! B-Roll! Summer vacation started three weeks ago and I am moving in two weeks. How am I going to pull together a whole bunch of videos of students? Who was taking said videos while I was teaching? Oh wait! I took tons of pictures during the school year. >>INSERT HOLIDAY WEEKEND VISIT FROM GRANDPARENTS<< 6:00 p.m. (One long trip down the rabbit hole of Google Photos which I turned into a activity): Ok, I have collected a few dozen photos. Some of them must be usable. P.S. my kids don’t like looking at pictures of kids that aren’t them. 9:00 p.m. (Everyone is in bed after a many renditions of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and two chapters of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe [BTW: My kids think Edmund is such a meanie]) Storyboard done-ish... now I am supposed to respond to other people’s blog. Oh wait...I am supposed to blog…To be continued... |