Welcome back to those of you who take the time to read of my blog/learning portfolio. Today we will visit the topic of video making, which happens to be the subject that we have been learning all about in school at this moment in time. We have been practicing and perfecting the art of video making, and everything that comes with it. We started out with a group project which required us to recreate a video called Catch by Joe Hatzler. Recreating this video was definitely more challenging than it seemed to be at the start. I didn’t understand just how much more difficult it is to recreate a video than it is just to make one of your own. Recreations require a lot more attention to detail then you’d think. My group for this video project consisted of Lucas and Adlih. There were many different aspects of the video that had to be accounted for, including the lighting, script, sound, camera angles, setting, costumes, and much more. Time management was key to finishing this video on time while simultaneously meeting all the correct criteria. Some things we probably should’ve put more attention towards would be the the music, and the storyboard which we didn’t even do, at least not for this video. With that being said, there’s always gonna be things to improve, but there’s also parts of this video that were really positive like the overall shots and lighting which I thought turned out pretty well. Despite having little time to get this done, the final product turned out pretty well for a first attempt at a recreation video, and I really enjoyed making it.

This wasn’t the only recreation we made, we followed up that last one with yet another recreation project. The only difference is that this time we got to choose what video we wanted to recreate.with the same group as last time, we chose a video by Studio C called The 5 Stages Of Netflix. This video went a lot smoother than the last one because for starters we actually made a storyboard to help the filming process go smoother. The one thing we could’ve done differently would’ve been to pay attention to the length of each clip to make it match up more with the original video, but the end product was still a good piece of work that was still humorous and mimicked the original, which was what we were going for.

The last video that we created was a short film where we got to be in groups of two or three and create the most random and humorous video we could in the amount of time we were given. Me and my friend Melika worked together to come up with the most random storyline we could think of and put together this minute long masterpiece.

Something that I learned from all of these video assignments is that these skills can really be applied in all of our work, even outside of PLP, and are just overall good skills to have for the future