From video making experience that I got from previous assignments, at the beginning, I thought that the making process for assignment 3’s video will not be too challenging. However, the differences between 2-3 minutes video and 7 minutes video are pretty vivid especially when it comes to editing process. However, even though 7 minutes seem to be extremely long at first, it turns out to be manageable if the script is well-planned.
I chose the last topic as my main content for my video. In this video, I did not completely follow the given topic since I did not really agree to that to some extents. That’s why I decided to make my video base on my new idea. However, the new idea is also developed based on the given topic but it’s just in an opposite direction.
I started my planning process by writing the script. But before the, in order to have enough information for the script, I started brainstorming main ideas that I would like to show in the video. Then, I did a lot of research based on ideas that I has just developed and find examples to strongly support for these ideas. After having everything I want to be in the video content, I move on finding out the ways to make the video become more interesting and interactive to the audience and I came up with the interview idea. After deciding what I want to be in the video, I started writing my script. The writing script part for this assignment was not as hard as the previous time since I organized and planned everything carefully in advanced. However, since the amount of information that is needed to be delivered in 7 minutes is a lot. Therefore, the script was very time consuming and took a lot of effort.
Even though I’m quite happy with content that is delivered in the video, there are definitely a lot of rooms for improvement in term of filming technique. Filming shot and angles in the video is fairly simple. A-roll parts make up to 80% of the video and the other 20% of B-roll shots are from online sources. After finishing 3 assignments, I recognised that there is no improvement in my filming skills since I just use a lot from Internet sources. Therefore, I definitely need to practice more with filming technique if I want to create quality video in the future.
In term of editing process, a 7-minute video is pretty challenging for me. While editing has always been one of my weaknesses, editing for video that lasts for 7 minutes requires paying a lot of attention to detail since I can easily missed small point without recognition. When it comes to editing process, I realized the importance of a well-planned script. Even though I spent a lot of time creating a detailed script, it was still challenging in the editing process because I video tapes can be easily mixed up together. After finishing the video, I was not totally happy with my final product since there are a lot of editing mistakes. However, with the limited ability in editing, I believed that I tried my best.
However, I have problem with managing time for the video. At first I thought 7 minutes video will be challenging since it can very hard to make a video that long. However, after finishing editing, I realized that 7 minutes is not that long. My video is up to 8 minutes 40 seconds but I could not cut it down since if I cut any part out, the content will not be delivered comprehensively. Therefore, even though knowing that my video goes over time limit, I decided to not cut it down. That’s also a lesson for me to pay attention while writing script.
At the end, I was not happy with my video since I can see a lot of room for improvement. However, I was not skillful enough to fix all these mistakes. Therefore, I have to keep practicing in order to improve my technique.
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