Class Notes: Week 5
Fair vs. Balanced
-Recognize that the story is being told through you
-Recognition that you are the referee
-Recognition that you are the referee
Napoleon Wright II
Grew up military, dad was military
ECU, BFA Communication Arts & Design
Capstrat Internship, led to full-time designer
Red Hat Design Job / Animation
-Revelation that the setting might not be ideal for him
-Started own business in 2009-10
-Economy crash as an opportunity
-Had skills to offer businesses
-Pan II Creative is his business
-Drive turned into profession
-Music production, animation, Napoleon literally does it all
On building a reel:
-Put it together to showcase all of your skills
-Made the music, made all of the animation, literally all him
-He’s had to make a video for phone, tablet, web, and Instagram
-Knowledge of all of these different mediums
-Communicate with designers and developers, and videos adapt to all of these
Takeaway: As long as you keep pursuing whatever you’re pursuing, it could morph into other unexpected pursuits. He has gotten new client relationships
Takeaway: When you put certain types of videos out there, you might get a request from people who notice you. The more you put out, the more that comes back.
ECU, BFA Communication Arts & Design
Capstrat Internship, led to full-time designer
Red Hat Design Job / Animation
-Revelation that the setting might not be ideal for him
-Started own business in 2009-10
-Economy crash as an opportunity
-Had skills to offer businesses
-Pan II Creative is his business
-Drive turned into profession
-Music production, animation, Napoleon literally does it all
On building a reel:
-Put it together to showcase all of your skills
-Made the music, made all of the animation, literally all him
-He’s had to make a video for phone, tablet, web, and Instagram
-Knowledge of all of these different mediums
-Communicate with designers and developers, and videos adapt to all of these
Takeaway: As long as you keep pursuing whatever you’re pursuing, it could morph into other unexpected pursuits. He has gotten new client relationships
Takeaway: When you put certain types of videos out there, you might get a request from people who notice you. The more you put out, the more that comes back.
Rough Cuts
NOTE: All of your media should be on the hard drive so that you will never have issues with retrieving your project. Start with a new project file every time and copy all of your files onto your drive.
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Jillian Johnson
-Footage heavy weekend
-Happened to luck out that this was a jam-packed weekend for Johnson (This is great opportunity)
-Pride parade
-Hunter and Lauren worked out quite a bit
-Kept appearing
-Run ahead and set up the shot, over and over ahead
-Visited Jillian’s house for a potluck
-Hope to go back without cameras to enjoy the relationship
-Also did an interview with her at City Hall
-Potential block party (timing didn’t work out)
-Shot interview from two different position - totally exposed one differently than the other one. Can we fix this? Without grain? Carson refers to editing session later today.
-Most of the editing; we found that it was hard to frame it in regards to the story; lots of exposition and not a ton of story; it’s basically a promo right now
Suggestions
-Color correction
-Noise levelling
-Add a breath between thoughts
-Either reshoot the opening shot on a tripod or do the city hall shot as the first one
-You can reduce the jarring change in audio by putting really impressive visuals
-Music can be distracting, but it built well later in the piece
-Story: Politics is not a career (great story point) - maybe explore this a little more and dig a little deeper
-Story: Maybe more about the family - she has a son
-Reveal: She is a councilwoman, ALSO she is bisexual, ALSO she is really into the community
-Happened to luck out that this was a jam-packed weekend for Johnson (This is great opportunity)
-Pride parade
-Hunter and Lauren worked out quite a bit
-Kept appearing
-Run ahead and set up the shot, over and over ahead
-Visited Jillian’s house for a potluck
-Hope to go back without cameras to enjoy the relationship
-Also did an interview with her at City Hall
-Potential block party (timing didn’t work out)
-Shot interview from two different position - totally exposed one differently than the other one. Can we fix this? Without grain? Carson refers to editing session later today.
-Most of the editing; we found that it was hard to frame it in regards to the story; lots of exposition and not a ton of story; it’s basically a promo right now
Suggestions
-Color correction
-Noise levelling
-Add a breath between thoughts
-Either reshoot the opening shot on a tripod or do the city hall shot as the first one
-You can reduce the jarring change in audio by putting really impressive visuals
-Music can be distracting, but it built well later in the piece
-Story: Politics is not a career (great story point) - maybe explore this a little more and dig a little deeper
-Story: Maybe more about the family - she has a son
-Reveal: She is a councilwoman, ALSO she is bisexual, ALSO she is really into the community
Underground Collective
-Secondary interview; zoom caught a bit of static — radio frequency wasn’t very strong
-No color correction
Pretty good
-Surprise at the end, getting emotional
-Childhood photographs
-Should cut away to more B-roll
-Music was coming in and going out, livened up the piece pretty well
-STORY: Any other elements?
-No color correction
Pretty good
-Surprise at the end, getting emotional
-Childhood photographs
-Should cut away to more B-roll
-Music was coming in and going out, livened up the piece pretty well
-STORY: Any other elements?
