Fire Safety

  The Project™

     Our first video assignment of the year was to make a safety procedure video. I worked with Andrew Stout and Jenna Daugherty. We made a video about what to do if the fire alarms start going off. We really didn't understand what you actually had to do during a fire so that made it harder for us to storyboard. We had a bunch of directions we wanted to go with the video (like making it in the style of a 50's instructional video) but we went with a simple, straight forward, instructional video. When we got to the second day of shooting, we had forgotten our clothes from the day before. We ended up re-shooting everything. Thank goodness we had, there was no sound from the first day. On the third day, we had a different camera and that kind of messed everything up, just a little bit.  I edited the video at home, so I had a day to help my team members with whatever they needed.

  What I need to fix

   I learned while watching the final cut of my video, that I had a good few things I had to change. There was a pretty obvious continuity error, but we were too scared to correct it. We weren't sure if you could actually open doors during school hours, so, we didn't. I need to fix some of the audio levels so you can hear it in some parts and fix the coloring so it's even. When I was editing, I learned how to crop a video and that was nice to know.

  When I redo it 

   If I could go back and do this video, I might have tried to find a way to get shots of us actually going through the doors. When editing I would fix the audio levels and the coloring. I will get a chance to do that today because we have to re-edit. When filming next time, I will try to focus on making sure all speaking is loud and clear so the audio doesn't need to be tweaked as much. I was glad we were all on the same page the whole time, though. (For the most part.)

For next time

     I had a lot of fun and I felt like I learned a lot about the people I work with and how I work with them. I am proud of the video I made and am ready to make it better.