Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to my blog!
If you watched the video above, you’re probably wondering “what is this live event anyway? And how did golf work its way into a school project?” All of you question will be answered in due time if you keep reading. Hope you enjoy!
This post is going to be about a video assignment we had to do in Maker class. For this project, we had to document a live event. Some criteria for the project:
– had to be under two minutes
– had to include an interview with a participant
– had to have music in the background
At first, I thought it was going to be a fun and exciting project. I watch live events on TV all the time. Anything sports related, I usually keep track of what happens. Live events happen every day of the year. I figured “well, how hard can it be?” After all, the hockey games and basketball games look so easy to record and document.
Right about here I got a pretty big reality check. I didn’t have cameras from every angles, slo mo replays and quality footage. I just had my iPad. It provided a bit of a struggle trying film all the right shots for the project. Also, I couldn’t film it myself if I was playing.
The last point I made really summed up my first attempt at the live event. For my first take at it, I tried to film my soccer game. I play on a Gold 2 level team for NVFC and I thought it would be an interesting live event.
I ran into a lot of trouble trying to film this. For one, I was playing and so it’s not like I could be holding my iPad and recording while running around. I asked my dad to film parts of the game, but the footage was shaky and shot from a distance.
Also, it was tough to judge when the exciting parts of the game were going to happen. No one wants to watch a summary of the game, but find out it’s really just 2 minutes of running around the centre of the field and throw-ins. It would just be too boring. This is another difference between PLP 9 and NBC sports. They film the whole game, so they have exclusive footage for highlight reels and stuff.
Another lowlight is that we got crushed 6-0. So it’s safe to say my first try was a fail.
After this, I figured that it couldn’t go any worse. I decided to try and cover a round of golf, or as the title suggests, the SJGI (Seymour junior golf invitational).
I had the plans that I was going to play a nine hole “tournament” with a friend and film lots of shots from the round. Afterwards, I was going to “commentate” the whole thing as to let the viewers know what was happening the whole time.
I figured it was better safe then sorry while filming, so I recorded a lot of clips. I had to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. This was the downfall of my first draft.
The video turned out to be ok, but there was a lot of footage in there. I went over the time limit by 40 seconds. There were a couple parts that I could have taken out to make it more concise.
I had some good ideas for this first draft, and there was some good things such as voiceovers, but I didn’t get approved and so we moved on to the second draft.
The feedback I got was actually quite helpful. After this, I knew immediately what I had to do to make it better. I knew that the hard part of filming the whole thing was complete.
In my second draft, I took out over 40 seconds of clips and voiceovers out. I tried to keep the more interesting parts in the video. Doing this, I had to keep in mind the viewers. A lot of people don’t play golf, so what shots would be most interesting for them to watch? I did my best to try and figure it out.
I thought this much better than the first draft. I took lots of out it and also redid a couple voiceovers. I hope you enjoyed the final version.
I think I learned a lot in making this video. There were lots of valuable learning experiences. For one, I think that filming more is better than filming to not enough, but you have to be smart when editing to make sure the whole thing fits in properly. I can use this knowledge when I’m making new videos!
To conclude, I really enjoyed making this video because it was on my favourite topic: golf! Making the video and documenting a round of golf was really fun.
This’ll wrap up today’s post.
See y’all next time,
nik
