Blood, Sweat, and Legos

I filmed a live broadcast of Olathe Northwest's annual blood drive. It was an interesting experience and had many stages throughout the process. Olivia Contractor, a Sophomore at Olathe Northwest, had many struggles through the process of donating and had a long journey to donating.

In order to get the shots that I wanted I had to follow every step, camera in hand to make sure I didn't miss a moment! It was more difficult than you would think to film steady without a tripod and took a lot of focus and concentration. Along the way I picked up a few tips and tricks to make my video even better than before.

I would've changed a few shots but when filming live footage you just gotta keep going! I feel that this was a successful story on the blood drive and was an exciting event to film!

When we are young and tiny, building legos is a fun and exciting activity but as we get older we forget the fun things we did as kids. Olathe Northwest brought back the joy of building legos and had a group of high school students build different sets of legos to bring back that childhood-feeling.

When filming the process of building legos, I wanted to make sure that I captured the joyous feeling of putting each piece together. I shot the length of the process by adding different shots and angles to create an interesting view on the video.

If I could change anything, I would try to capture better audio to hear his comments on the childhood-feeling comeback. I feel that I did the best I could and that this video could indeed be better. It was fun to see the legos be created and the joy in the students eyes come back.

Come Sail Away

This is a music video that we made in my video class. The scope of this project was to create a music video that was a minute and a half long. We first had to come up with what song we wanted to do and the story of the video. We then created a storyboard of all of the shots we wanted. I learned that in order to work as a coherent group, you must listen to everyones suggestions. I would probably not have done this plot with this song if i were to redo this. I would still create the suspense and tone of the story. Finally, my thoughts throughout this video were that we had a good story and good song but our shots could have told the story a bit better.

Stalked

This video was about a girl who was getting chased and stalked and how she had to get away. We wanted to try to be creative and come up with unique shots. It was an ABAB sequence. This was challenging and helpful for many reasons. One reason it was challenging was that we had to have many shots and they had to move within only a few seconds each. Another thing that was challenging was how to get creative with shots. This was helpful because it taught me how to utilize my surroundings and come up with different shots. If I could change anything I would retake a couple of shots and correct the lighting in some shots. I would keep the story and the way we got from one place to another. We spent many hours filming and editing to make this video the best it could be. I learned that sometimes shots look different when shooting them then when watching them.  I thought this was a great project and I would definitely do it again.

10 Shot Sequence

In this assignment we had to make a 10 shot sequence video. We had to get one person from one side of the building to the other in 10 creative shots. We were given the shots we used. The shots we used were close-up, medium, extreme wide, point of view (POV), over the shoulder (OTS), and wide. Close-up shots are shots that a very close to the object. Medium shots are shots that are waist up. Extreme wide are being able to see the entire background and object in the shot. Point of view is the camera shot from the objects perspective. Over the shoulder is a shot that is behind the object but still being able to see the scene. Wide shots are shots that are whole body shots and being able to still see background. What I learned from this assignment was how to set the tripod and camera to fit the shot that I needed. It was a little difficult to make sure the camera was in focus and the white balance was perfect.