Final video

Video Assignment

Interview Questions

The questions I have used during the interviews within my video are:

1. What is it you do?
2. Is there anything exciting happening for you, anything new coming up?
3. Do you think the support for new and upcoming musicians and DJ’s is good in Hull?
4. What genres of music would you say are the most popular and biggest in Hull?
5. Do you think it’s easy to create a fan base, do a lot of people give positive feedback and keep going to gigs you play?
6. Is it easy to get recognition, do you get asked to play a lot of gigs?
7. Which music venues do you think are the best in Hull?
8. Do you think the new venue they are going to build for City of Culture 2017 is necessary? What impact do you think that’s going to have on the venues we already have?
9. Who are your favourite bands/musicians/DJ’s from Hull?
10. Is it tough being a busker, do people stop and pay attention to you? Do you get given any money?

Green Screen

When using green screen, lighting is really important. For green screen, we used a white screen and two lights with green filters on to turn the background green. Although this changed the background, the room was still too dark to record footage. To make the room lighter, we then used three other lights to light up the subject/person so you could see their face. For this, a key light was used and two other filler lights. Once all the lights were on, there weren’t any shadows on the screen and you could clearly see the subject which allowed us to them record some clear footage.

After capturing the footage, it was then placed into Premiere Pro. The steps I took to change the background were:

1. Drag the footage onto the timeline
2. Go to the effects panel
3. Drag the eight-point garbage matte onto the footage
4. Go into the effect controls
5. Move about the volumes, to move and cut the background
6. In the effects bar, search for ultra key and drag it onto the footage
7. In effect controls, change the key colour, use the picker tool and hover over the green background
8. Go to output, alpha channel, pull all the whites and blacks
9. Drop the matte generation in the effects control and change the value of the pedestal
10. To view the difference made change back the output back to composite
11. Go to matte cleanup changing the choke and soften settings, trying to get rid of the green
12. Go into spill suppression and change the desaturate, range and luma effects
13. Go onto the internet and find a large image and save it
14. Drag the image onto a new video layer
15. Drag the image to the layer making sure its behind/underneath footage
16. Make sure image is same length as video

Production Hazard Assessment Sheets

Video Storyboard

Video Essay Research

For my video essay, I am going to create a video that reflects on the music scene in Hull. Within the three minute video I am going to have interviews with local musicians, footage from local gigs and band practices and photographs. As well as having a variety of visualisations, I am also going to try and include music from local bands in the video.

Topics of conversation I plan to cover will include City of Culture 2017, venues, whats happening with the bands/musicians and who the biggest bands from are.

The documents I am also going to create to work alongside me while I create the video are:

• Camera shot list. This will ensure I include a variety of shots within the video so it looks more visually appealing.
• Storyboard. This will help me plan how I want the video to flow, and ensures positionings and camera shots change throughout.
• Production hazard assessment. This will ensure that the environments i’m filming in are safe.
• Edit list
• I may also create release forms, which would be a contract for the people who have agreed to be in the videos to sign so they can’t back out last minute.

Camera Shots

When creating videos, using a variety of camera angles is really important. This is because if you use a lot of different shots it makes the video more visually appealing, and it’s likely to keep audiences engaged. Different camera angles can also portray things in different lights and manipulate audiences feelings. The camera shots that I know of are:

• Low angle
• High angle
• Long shot
• Medium shot
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Wide/establishing shot
• Birds eye view
• Worm view
• Dutch angle
• Point of view

As a journalist, it’s likely I’m only going to use the simple camera shots because I will mainly have videos of interviews. For interviews, medium shots are mainly used so that audience can just see the people speaking. Other shots that get used in interviews include long shots and close ups. These main, simple shots are used to make audiences connect with the people in interviews and to put them onto their level as if they’re there speaking to them.

Sound in Videos

The sound in videos is just as important as the visual aspect. The main problems I have found with sound in videos are:

• you can often see people speaking but their voices are very faint and you can’t hear them
• the backing music is too loud and you can’t hear what’s actually going on in the video
• some videos are cut too short and they cut out the last words in people’s sentences when they’re speaking.
• when videos are overlapped for a visual effect, it causes the sounds to overlap

As an audience member, I find these issues with sound very off putting when I watch videos and whenever these happen I usually stop watching them. Therefore, as a journalist I find it extremely important to get the sound right in videos to keep audiences engaged.

To stop some of these problems, I will use microphones whenever it’s possible to make sure I capture what people are saying in interviews. I will also always listen to videos whenever I edit them, even if at the time I’m just focusing on how it looks.

Like the imagery in videos, you can cut sound with a razor tool in Premiere Pro. This tool is really useful, because it allows you to add snippets of backing tracks and sound effects whenever necessary and it stops you from having more sound in a video than footage. You can also alter the volume of sound in videos, this would be done to make the people speaking louder than backing music.

Overall, when editing videos it’s important to make sure the sound is on point and matches up with the footage.

Introduction to Premiere Pro

In the past I have used Sony Vegas to edit videos, which I found really simple. Now, after learning the basics on Premiere Pro, the software seems very similar.

When starting up Premiere Pro, it’s important to choose the right settings to edit the video you want. One of the main things to do when you set up a new project, is to make sure the resolution of the video in the project matches up to the video cameras resolution. Another obvious thing to do, is make sure you save the project into a folder you will be able to find easily and where there’s enough data storage.

Once the new project had been opened to start the process of importing media is very simple and straight forward, like in Sony Vegas. Once media is then imported, you can start to edit videos. One of the main tools that always gets used in Premiere Pro is the razor tool, which allows you to cut out any footage you don’t want. After videos are cut, you can then drag them all together and put them in the order you want. You can even overlap videos which makes them fade into each other.

Overall, after my first lesson using Premiere Pro I feel confident in my ability to edit videos. In the future, I will probably use this software to edit any journalistic videos, because it seems very easy and simple.