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This semester we did so much in video entertainment that really helped me grow as a filmmaker and the roles I like to play when making those films. The very first assignment we had was camera assignment 1 where we had to make a short video about either a PSA, informational video, a music video, or a mini short film. My group decided to make a mini short film that we titled Simply Complex. Simply Complex is a mini short film that revolves around a man named Albert Franklin III, who has a habit of making things way more complicated than they have to be. In it, he goes to a job interview to be a teacher at his local high school, but something terrible happens and franklin is the only one smart enough to stop it. This project took a good couple of weeks to make. We didn't really run into that many problems except for finding a time when a teacher would be available to be used in our film. Along the way, I learned the importance of camera angles because there were a few shots where a...

This semester was pretty good all of the videos we made were pretty good. My favorite two are the short film and the music video even though we didn't finish the music video. My partners for the music video were: Malik Alexander, Lucas Wright, and Jeremiah Henderson. The song we used was Cradles by NCS. We had some trouble with filming because not everyone was able to be at the recording because of work. We did what we could with that problem and got it done, but we couldn't get all the clips we needed. In the short story, I worked with DJ, Malik, Ariana, Caitlyn. The story was about these two teens named Andre and Draymond who were played by Malik and DJ, and they decide to rob a mafia boss for money. Then after they do they get jumped by two goons and taken back to the mob boss named Vinny where he will decide their fate. I was co-director and helped set up some of the shots and Caitlyn and Ariana were the editors. I thought all of the videos we made were good but these two w...

In this project we had to make a music video for a song that our teacher approved. It didn't matter if the song had a video or not. My team thought it would be better to do a song that didn't have a video because the expectations for the video wouldn't be as high. This project was pretty difficult to do with the conditions we had. Two of my teammates always had to work and weren't available a-lot. The amount of time we had wasn't bad, but with the schedule problems we had it seemed to cut that time in half. Another big problem we ran into was with the problems we had with scheduling is that we didn't get enough shots so there is a minute of nothing in the video. A couple things that I thought was really good was the idea we had for the video and how we put it into action. The idea we had was a kid with schizophrenia going through a normal school day but one of the symptoms for schizophrenia is hallucination, so while he was going throughout his day he kept thi...

The overall point of this project was to find a topic and turn it into a news story for the sophomore edition of ONW NOW our schools news system. My team chose wrestling so we interviewed one of the members on the team and asked him his thought's on the wrestling season. My roll in the production of this video was I did the voice over. Something that my team struggled with was we didn't have enough voice over for the amount of B-roll we had because of the time requirement. One of the things I would want to change was that I didn't put enough emotion into my voice for the voice over.

Semester Reflection Introduction This semester I worked on four projects, ONW Procedures, 1 in 2000, Advance Feature Story, and ONW NOW Sophomore Edition. The projects all took a couple of weeks to produce. The projects i'm most proud of are the Advance Feature Story and my teams story for ONW NOW Sophomore edition.  Advance Feature Story The point of the project was to come up with a news story and interview someone related to that topic and my team chose baseball. The entirety of the project to a little less than two weeks. One of the challenges we faced was when the baseball games were. One of the things I learned along the way was how to differentiate the volume between multiple audio files. One bit of feedback that was received was that the brightness of the clips that were outside were good. One of the things I would change is the shadows in the background of the interview. My overall opinion for the video is that it was well made but there are some spots that coul...

  The objective of this video was to show a specific procedure and how to do it correctly for the freshman. The procedure that my team chose was how to correctly ask the teacher for a pass to fill up a water bottle. Some of the challenges we faced were the time constraint we had. The length of our clips were pretty long and we had quite a bit of them as well. Our final product had to be no more than 30 seconds and the shortest clip we had was ten seconds and we had at least 5 clips that were longer than that. If there would e something I would change it would be the number of clips we had and the length of the clips.

Self-Portrait Video ' In my self portrait I chose to express myself by shooting my bow and arrow. I chose this to represent myself because it's a unique skill that requires a calm mind and a thoughtful personality. I wanted to show that I had a skill that not a lot of people at my age can do. This was the first video idea I thought of  making when I was given this assignment. I was inspired by many video games where the main character uses a bow and arrow frequently. The point of archery is very simple. All you have to do is attach the arrow to the bow and pull the arrow and the string to the back, when you are ready to shoot the arrow just let go of the string. Archery is a simple concept. Use the bow to put the arrow in the bulls-eye. Even though the concept is simple executing it is a lot more complex. When I shot this video I had to make sure the light wasn't to bright or to dark. For the camera angle I placed it on a shelf outside in my families gazebo. For the...