Final Project

https://vimeo.com/94926225

I ran into issues because as I was doing my interview for Devora the battery on my recorder ran out.  There was music playing outside and no matter where you were in the house you could hear it in the background, and because I had to use the iPhone sound it picked up that background, and ruined a lot of the video.  I did think I did a good mix of broll and people speaking, and I think the quotes I chose to use were very interesting.  Other than the sound, I am happy with my project.

Video Assignment 3

https://vimeo.com/92525695

I don't really understand how to get the iPhone into good focus, no matter how hard I try it always ends up being blurry. Additionally, when I chose the topic I did, I did not realize how boring he broll would be. I found the research and place she worked interesting, but when I got there I realized it was mostly desk work. I think I did a good job of editing together the broll and I think I recorded good audio.

Video Assignment 2

I feel like I had the most troubles finding an event to film that people were okay with. I asked a lot of people on the mall and around the diner and got a lot of no answers. Therefore I resorted to a very generic thing to film. I definitely need to work harder at filming each frame for a long amount of time, it would make editing a lot easier. I need to just get more comfortable filming in general, because that is why I end up rushing through things. However, I think I did much better at really getting wide and medium shots, but my tight ones always end up being worse than I thought. I have a lot of work to do with video!

https://vimeo.com/92334518

Video Assignment One

I don't think I did well at guiding people to look at the camera instead of looking around. Additionally, I only took about a 30-60 seconds of video and audio per an interview which limited what I had to work with. I think I need to work harder at making the person I was interviewing more comfortable. I think I did well at picking a good place to interview because you could hear a little of the background from the soccer game going on at frat row. I think I also did really well at matching the audios togethether.

Audio Assignment Two

Educational leadership consultant Shay Galley visits the Beta Eta  chapter of Alpha Xi Delta at the University of Maryland for the first time on March 24, 2014.

I made the same mistake of forgetting to make sure the decibel level was at 10 for the interview. I also have issues cutting the audio in a way that still makes it sound natural. Additionally, I made the mistake of not telling the person I was interviewing to make sure her phone was on silent. You can hear a beep one time during the interview at a point where she is saying something that is too important to cut out. I think I did a good job of picking out what was the most important part of the interview out of the 5 minutes. Although it was hard to cut five minutes into one minute, I realized there was a lot of unnecessary content.

FINAL AUDIO ASSIGNMENT

I think I did much better at getting the recording at the right level, however I am still having difficulty getting it in between the -6 to -12 level. Additionally, my editing still gets a little choppy in places, and you can tell when things were cut off.  I realized having 10 minutes of natural sound recorded for a 1:30 interview also made it really difficult to edit as well. I think I picked a good interview though, and I thought I timed the natural noise and cut it well with my interview.

Junior Ali Harrington listens to a playback after a night of rehearsing with her acapella group DaCadence, at the University of Maryland on March 30, 2014.

Audio Assignment One

My first audio assignment threw a couple of obstacles my way. I noticed when I was recording that no matter how close I talked into the recorder, it would not go to -6. I assumed this was just a technological error because the audio sounded fine when I listened to it from the device through headphones. However, I did not realize that the gain was only at six, when it was supposed to be at ten.  Because of this, my audio was basically impossible to hear without editing. I also didn't realize that I could just put the voiceover on one track and add and delete sentences. Instead, I just kept rereading my entire script over and over again until I came up with the best result, and all of them were different tracks. In the end, it would have been a lot better to keep it all on one track, and the sound would have been better as well.  After listening I realized I also talk a little fast, and was not the easiest to understand.  However, I think that for my first assignment, I kept my voice at an even level, and I was fairly easy to understand.

Script and article:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/mar/13/oscar-pistorius-trial-bad-wielding-moment-crucial

A crucial piece of evidence was examined in the murder trial of world famous paralympian Oscar Pistorious yesterday.  Forensic investigator Colonel Gerhard Vermuelen recreated the bathroom Pistorious shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through, using the bullet ridden toilet door from the scene of the crime. Pistorious claimed in his opening statement that he knocked down the door with a cricket bat while wearing his prosthetic legs. However, Vermuelen recreated the scene by kneeling at the height of Pistorious without his prosthetics. His recreation showed marks on the door were low enough that Pistorious was probably not wearing his prosthetics when he knocked down the door, showing that he could have lied in his statement. Nonetheless, the defense claimed Pistorious was swinging the bat with his back bent, which could explain why the markings on the door were so low.

Pistorious, who has won multiple gold medals in the Paralympics earning the nickname blade runner, could spend the rest of his life in South African Prison if he is convicted of Steenkamp’s murder.