I chose to do this project because i thought it would be interesting for viewers to see what homecoming was like when our teachers were in high school. Also I thought more people would like to see their teachers experiences being in the homecoming court. This video was meant to be fun and interesting to the student body and also something for homecoming week. I don't think there has ever been a video like this before and I'm happy i got to be a part of making the video.
For pre-production my partner and i had wanted to get about 4-5 teachers that had been in the homecoming court with a bunch of pictures to put in our package. The idea was to get teachers with all different experiences of being in homecoming court so the the school could get to see that. As we were putting our story together we didn't include some of those ideas. We had interviewed 4 teacher 2 girls and 2 guys. We had to tried to get pictures from all the teachers so we could put them in our package. As we had started editing we realized that we didn't have much b-roll of the teachers and it was hard to find time to get the perfect b-roll we had needed. As the ending result came along we had, had to take out an interview because that teacher had not given us photos of her and we couldn't get any b-roll of her. Somethings I had learned were that you never have enough b-roll always get tons because if you feel you have enough you probably don't. Don't take advantage of your time because you may feel you have time but the deadline came faster that we thought.
Something I would do differently is that I would get tons of b-roll. Also another thing i would do differently is not take advantage of the time i have to get it done because there is a lot to get done and it may not seem like it. Lastly something i would do differently is i would try and improve my interview questions and try and make my video better.
Somethings i would not change about this video are the idea was pretty good idea and I'm happy i got to film it. Another thing wouldn't change is the teachers we chose because they had good things to say and really wanted to be filmed. The last thing i wouldn't change is the way we edited the video i liked how we started out with the b-roll and the nat. noise.
Some experiences I would draw from this package is the whole idea behind it. We tried to choose something that everyone would enjoy and they did. To enhance my next project I would take some of the b roll we got and i think they photos we in our package were a major bonus to the video i feel the photos made the video better as a whole. So for my next project i am going to be sure and add interesting facts and get good b-roll/ photos.
Overall I'm pretty proud of the outcome of the video i think lots of teachers and students enjoyed it and hopefully i can make a fun video like this again for a spirit week or an important event.
Your package was great because it actually gets students attention when they see a teacher they have or had in their high school years, it makes their teachers more relatable. The story made sense and was easy to follow. It would've been better with more old pictures of teachers but obviously that isn't anything you had control over and was up to the teachers.
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