My favorite projects this semester were the photo project and the video project. I liked the photo/ photoshop project because I was able to experiment with some new photography ideas. I had never worked with product photography, so it was fun to work with something new. I also challenged myself to work on my photoshop editing skills.

I also liked the video project. Again,  it challenged me to try new stuff with my photography. I ended up with the best photo set that I’ve had in a while. It was also fun to edit the video.  I don’t get very many chances to make videos, and I always have fun when I do. I also got to hang out with my friend Shane, who was the cameraman.

I learned how to edit more competently in adobe premiere. Before the course, I could only edit in iMovie. I know now where the effects panels are, and how to do more advanced stuff other than just cutting video down. I will definitely use this more in the future because I would like to go into video production later after college.

I see myself going into video production in some way shape or form. I could see myself making documentaries or doing news video production. I really liked the video production portion of things, so that made me even more excited to work on it in my future.

I wish that I knew how to keyframe a little bit better. I feel like we touched on it, but there’s still a lot more to learn, but I’ll learn in my free time.

I found that just using YouTube and looking through other content creators’ stuff has helped me the most. Watching tutorials is always helpful, but it’s more helpful for me to just watch short films and vlogs to get an idea of what people like, so I can take the things that I like and incorporate them into my project.

This project is intended to be a fun new approach to portrait photography. I’ve seen a lot of videos on life hacks on photography. They’re always kind of fun to watch, I wanted to see if they would actually work. This video is going to be of me trying out life hacks related to photography.

My project is portrait photography, and I wanted to challenge myself to try new techniques.

The main idea of life hacks is that you can usually use everyday items to do them. They save money and supposedly, time. I challenged myself to find all of the materials to create this video at my residence hall.

I was inspired by YouTube videos of people explaining life hacks. They usually seem pretty impractical to me, but I wanted to try them to see if there is any merit to them. I was also inspired by Cody Ko’s videos of him trying other life hacks on YouTube. You can watch them here. 

I didn’t do a storyboard for this project, because I didn’t complete the planning assignment for this project.

I wanted to make this video with an informal vlog feel. I accomplished this by using a cameraman to follow me around. I also used a bunch of jump cuts to make it feel snappy and fresh, like a lot of modern-day YouTubers use.

Most of the video is comprised of only four shots broken up into multiple cuts. I then filmed on a second day, and did a photoshoot on the same day, so that added to the rest of the footage.

I used music from https://filmmusic.io “Modern Jazz Samba” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

When I turned in the first draft of my assignment, the video was very unfinished. It was all about life hacks, but there were no life hacks in the video. We took on too many ideas, so we cut it down to three of the hacks that actually worked.

I ended up adding music, as was suggested by my peers. I also cut out some of the fluff in my project, which made it a little bit less entertaining, but it centralized and focused my project more on my theme.

I didn’t have that much trouble with this project, but I did have a hard time realizing which parts of the narrative were relevant and which parts I just thought were funny.