After working in Premiere long enough to understand it and know how to use it effectively, I enjoy its features. From the start of working with video I knew that Premiere would probably be the best video editing software I ever work with, so I quickly tried to figure out how to best use it. As we got more assignments to do in Premiere my understanding of it grew, and I began to look for software I could use at home for free for video editing. Premiere inspired me to record hours of footage at home so that I could edit it and maybe turn it into something interesting. The only problem is that I don’t have Premiere at home, but I’ll likely find some other video editing software. As for the time I used Premiere at school it has been great, I learned many things about the skills it takes to create a good film such as how to make motion flow and what camera angles work best. Working with Premiere has been interesting, but not as fun as some of the other software we have worked with. The only reason for it not being as fun is because the amount time it takes to create a finished product is unpredictable and it always left me with a sense of unaccomplishment. Given the tools of Premiere I felt like I could have done much more than what was required for the assignments we were given, but for time’s sake I didn’t. That is why I am currently looking for a free video editing software at home, because video editing may become a hobby if I can work with it long enough to feel accomplished. Now that it is the fourth quarter I’m pretty sure we will be moving on to 3D modeling, which will hopefully be fun and similar to the work I did in eighth grade. At least I have some skills I will be coming in with for 3D modeling, unlike the other things we have worked with, but I most likely have forgotten my skills by now. After doing some additional research I found a few free video editing softwares I could use at home to expand my knowledge on the use of video editing. Most of the free video editing softwares are free versions advertising their professional full versions, but still function fully as video editing software. I was planning on using Movie Maker because that’s what some of my friends and brothers had used in the past for video editing, but it was discontinued over a year ago. I might end up using Shotcut, but I haven’t looked into every single option I have yet, hopefully I find a reliable software that can get the job done soon.
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Citations: www.pcworld.com/article/3240982/software/the-best-free-video-editing-software.html https://www.lifewire.com/best-free-video-editing-software-programs-4128924
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In my group for the video project I was the person in charge of making the graphics, but I also helped out to complete the other roles because we had a smaller group. For the first two days we were planning and researching on our topic, then I got to making logos for our PSA. It took me some time to think of unique logos, but we eventually agreed on a professional-looking logo to put in our video. My partner and I worked together to make the script, and he also made a storyboard to plan out the shots of our video. When we went outside for recording I made sure to get things done quickly and with a plan. My partner and I took multiple shots of each scene and attempted a few different camera angles as well. Because Premiere can only be used on one computer to effectively edit a group’s film, my partner worked with the video on his computer, and I gave suggestions. We worked together to choose which clips we thought were the best and how to edit them. In the end we both filled each other’s roles somewhat, but we also made sure to do the core things of our role before filling another. This helped to make the project go efficiently, even without a third member of our group. Of course though, our work did end up being rushed because our videos will be presented tomorrow and we had just gotten to editing today. Overall I think my partner and I equally contributed towards our final product, checking each other’s work along the way to make sure we weren’t doing anything completely wrong.
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Quarter 3 has been one of the quickest and wildest quarters so far of my time at D.S.A, which consists only of three quarters of ninth grade anyways. Even then, the third quarter had an extremely rough start filled with snow days and confusion, so much confusion that I'm not even sure exactly when quarter three started. Many of my assignments were missing or late around that time and I wasn't getting as much sleep as usual, I thought I was going to start failing. Luckily for me though, not long after the snow days things started to even out and my grades started to go back to normal for most of my classes. However, some of my early third quarter grades left scars that can still be seen on this coming report card. At least it is over now and I only have one more quarter of ninth grade, which I plan to go smoothly so that I won't have to stress about failure. I've heard many people say that third quarter is usually when students get their lowest grades, so hopefully I can shoot for getting all "A"'s in fourth quarter. I've always been an all "A" kid, but once I saw my first "B" on the quarter one report card I gave up on trying to keep that title. That's not to say I gave up on my work though, I still worked just as hard but at that time I realized that high school is not middle school. The only reason I've been an all "A" kid is because middle school was way too easy, as long as you turned in work you got a 100. Now in high school though teachers do this new thing called grading, which means I have to actually work on what I turn in. Of course this hasn't been much of a problem for me, I've always worked on what I was turning in even though I knew I'd pass regardless, now my work is just critiqued and often reasonably graded. Apart from grades I have also met a few new people and now talk to at least 4 times the number of people I talked to in quarter one. This may have contributed to why the third quarter went by so fast, I stopped paying attention to when school was going to end and started paying attention to the people I talk to. It was only when there were three weeks left of third quarter when I realized report cards were going to be coming home soon. Ever since that day I have been checking my grades on PowerSchool daily to make sure my report card looks good. I was worried about my grade in this class, which has either been a high "B" or low "A" so far, but when I checked three weeks ago it was and average "B". Of course all of my worries went away when I completely blew that test out of the water today just as you asked us to do, I instantly checked PowerSchool when I got on the bus to see the nice 92 under quarter three. That leaves math as the only class I don't have an "A" in, and that is probably because I will end up with a "C" or lower in that class. I have mostly understood what we have been learning, but early in the quarter I completely failed one assignment, got a 41 on a unit test, and got a 71 on a separate large test. All three of those low grades worked together to bring my grade down to an 85, that is until I most likely just failed the test we took today, so my grade will be even lower. The third quarter has been one of the most stressful quarters so far with deadlines, projects, and quizzes constantly approaching for all of my classes, but now it is finally over. In the fourth quarter I hope to have steady grades from start to finish and that I pass the super stressful end of course tests.
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Of course because the quarter is nearly over we now receive tons of projects, all due within a week. These projects can help boost our grade tremendously for the quarter if done well, or tremendously weigh them down if we fail. So far my group has been working kind of slow but we are getting the work done. One of our largest problems has been with organization. I get to class, login to anything I need to login to, then get to work right away. My partner on the other hand has to go through several authentications to login to something as simple as Schoology then spend a few minutes going through his Google drive folders to find our document. There is nothing wrong with protecting private information, such as login credentials, or organizing files into documents, as long as it doesn't slow down the workflow. As I have said in many other blog posts, organization is important for success in high school, but over-organization can sometimes slow you down more than being unorganized would. Luckily this has been one of our only problems and it can be easily fixed if the time is taken to do so. That is another common problem with group projects, because each group member works at a different speed scheduling can often be a hassle. However, it is still very important to divide up the time you have to work in order to get the project done efficiently and without confusion. For example my partner and I know that groups for this project are supposed to be groups of three, but we still chose to work in a group of two because we are pretty sure we can get the work of one extra person done in the time allotted. Often there is a group member who doesn't do any of the work anyways, so we somewhat saved ourselves from that. Because we are working in a group of two we split up what would be the third member's role between us and created deadlines to finish each part of our role (pre-production, production, post-production). I hope that the plan we made for this project works out and that the other assigned projects also go well.
Now that we understand photography we've moved on to creating and editing videos with audio. Our first video assignment was similar to our photography assignment in that it had to be an exact duration and all relate to one theme. This has been one of the funnest assignments this quarter because we are working with moving images, editing a still image can get monotonous because it is not as dynamic. I've also never worked with editing videos before, but even being my first time I felt like I understood most of it. I always thought video editing would be over complicated, but in reality it was actually pretty easy. It sort of reminds me of making a PowerPoint presentation because you work with multiple slides and have to decide the order in which they are presented to the viewers. It also includes my favorite part of PowerPoint which was the slide transitions, I always used transitions in all of my presentations whether I needed them or not. In the case of making this video in Premiere though transitions were required so I had fun exploring the different effects I could use and remembering the best ones from PowerPoint. After doing some additional research I found out that small additions such as music and sound effects can greatly enhance a film. Music, sound, camera angle, and lighting all create the mood of a movie and can tell a story much greater than just the film alone. Even lessening dialogue to enhance other effects is a great way to make an overall better film.
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Citations: https://nofilmschool.com/2016/02/6-elements-great-film http://learnaboutfilm.com/making-a-film/ |
AuthorMy name is Andrew Prichard and the this is my first digital arts class, I look forward to a good year with lots of hard work. Archives
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