Project #3-Feature

Pre-Production

Our assignment in project three was to create a feature by interviewing a subject, filming b roll and using lower thirds in a video that is 1:20 to 2:00 minutes long. When we originally were given the project we instantly thought of interviewing Sam Hartmann about the different clubs she is involved in, our only issue was the story. We went into the interview looking for information about the clubs she was in but we didn’t have a story we wanted to follow. We came up with a list of questions that we wanted to ask her and then went from there.

• Who are you? Where are you from? Major? 
• What was your work ethic like back home?
• What was school like when you were in High School?
• What is your work ethic like at Quinnipiac?
• What is your schedule like?
• How many clubs are you involved in?
• What clubs are you involved in?
• What clubs do you do the most for?
• What is your show on WQAQ?
• What do you do during your shows?
• What are your plans for the future?

Then after interviewing her we found the story we wanted to follow and began outlining and planning when we could get b roll for our video.

Production

Our interview went smoothly except for occasional laughing during the answers of a few of our questions and our location. We wanted to film in the large common room on ledges third floor but it was occupied forcing us to make do with the smaller common room, other than that, our only issue was b-roll. Our main goal was to get b roll of each of her club meetings and then show how busy schedule is, but due to the unforeseen circumstances of COVID-19 and some of the clubs not meeting before break we were only able to get b-roll of WQAQ. We also tried to film one of her SPB meetings but the president told us that we weren’t allowed to film the information they were talking about. With that being said, we did a good job of using what we had and collaborating from home. We screen recorded some shots for b-roll as well as the voiceover from home.

Post-Production

The entire editing process was done via zoom, we had three different conferences where we would share desktops and edit the video. We did a very good job of working together even with the circumstances that we have and making the best product we could with the clips we had previously filmed.