Project #2-Interview

Pre-Production

Our assignment for project two was to make an interview between 1:25 and 2:00 minutes long. There were three main goals of the project, the first is the framing of the interview. We needed to have three close up shots, three wide shots and three medium shots in our final video. The challenge within these was to mix the clips so that there was never the same shot next to each other. The second main factor was the lighting, this was our first time using lights in our film and it focused on understanding the fill, key, backlight and the use of the umbrella and diffusion. The final factor was our understanding of the audio, we worked with two different channels one was the lavalier mic and the other was the internal mic on the camera. We then edited our video so that all of the sound was coming through the lav.

Our original idea before we started the project was to interview my roommate Tomas about the Overwatch e-sports team. As we worked through the interview, we started asking him all different questions about his radio show, mailroom job, and other aspects to ensure that we got enough footage. By the end of the project, we went back to our original idea of focusing on the Overwatch team and scrapped the other clips. Our timeline was pretty simple, we wrote down our questions the Friday after the project was assignment and filmed the next day. Then we edited the majority of the video in class on Wednesday and finished up the on Sunday.

Production

The only real challenges that arose throughout our project was our subject. While Tomas was a lot of fun to interview and very interesting, he said uh and um a lot during our interview making it difficult to edit. We overcame the problem by choosing our clips very carefully and cutting out most of the uhs and ums. Other than that problem our production went pretty smoothly, we shot the entire interview three different times in three different shots to ensure we had a surplus of footage.

Post-Production

Post Production went very well, because we had so many clips we were able to find plenty of content to match up with our topic. The only problem we had was the enthusiasm in one of the clips. In the clip where Tomas talks about his number on the back of the jersey he isn’t excited about it which was frustrating for us during the editing process. That is the only thing I would’ve done differently, I would have asked him to reword his answer with more enthusiasm.