Class Notes: Week 12

  • Brandon and Jenny
    • Five interviews – only a couple of which were used in the clip
    • Renee and Jen were invested in the project – worried about doing the video justice and the Ryder Cup justice
    • Carson liked b-roll, nat sound, great open/closing shots, needs improvement on white balance
    • Glad to be introduced this way to fencing – Brandon knew how close center was – went above and beyond – thanks to Renee for coming
    • Relied on nat sound – wanted to capture Jen in environment without background noise
    • Raquel – Jen’s voice and rhythm contributed to story, couple of things to do to improve – so few photos – adding movement on photos to capture whole screen – get that movement
      • Shot outdoors – used a tripod – use warp stabilizer
    • Julie – fantastic job – well-done, held element towards end of Ryder, way you incorporated – always wanted more – keep going! Visual standpoint – take cord to slide it up shirt
  • Nathan and Cassidy
    • Jessie Knight is present
    • Hard to pick a story line and go for it, but narrowed in on Eurydice Descended
      • Layers – liked that it started with a dream, see it come to real life, did a pre-interview with Leah – DIDA helps dancers – cool story that Jessie Knight is doing – drag chorus – check it out
      • Jessie and Cassidy connected – narrowing down story line – beautiful dream turned into beautiful reality for her
    • Archival photos were great, liked lower thirds, dance footage and environment was nice – use a monopod to stabilize, closing was beautiful
    • Choice of black and white worked really well – two motivations
      • Thought it would work well with contrast
      • Shot with two different cameras – different in color
    • Lit the interviews – used color correcting to get there
    • Dillon – got lost in story. Loved variation of video shots – video elements. Some of bridging from one topic to another could have been smoothed over.
    • Raquel – one second of pause between each section would be nice between each soundbyte – for breathing and digesting content
    • Adding breathing room is important
    • Jessie’s show is the 20th and 21st at Cordova Center
  • Melissa and Chris
    • Good experience – figuring out why business works in expensive part of town – not a common business to go after
      • She had no issues at all – she is good at what she does
      • Took until final interview – talking about the end – not going to be doing this much longer
    • No reason to leave – have never been into vintage – so interesting hearing about Jennifer talking about business – don’t do any advertising – people just come – business hasn’t struggled
    • Carson – between interview soundbytes – use crossfades – more natural and easy – slowly fade as opposed to be – use room tone at the end of soundbyte
      • Dramatic pause before left turn – great left turn – breathing rack of sunglasses
    • Sophie – liked when one of employees talked about vintage clothing – story behind clothes – reflected that well
    • Jenny – loved wigs in background – added color
    • Cara – liked breathing room between clips
    • First one to space out music –
    • Put people at ease – tell them how to behave – warm them up and give them technical guidance – volunteer things about yourself
    • James Todd – old mentor at Duke
    • Julie – would’ve loved if you left her with mic, work here because of her – went and took clip and hit it home – oh this is why – interview was dark – nice to illuminate face
      • Nice way to plug in light and see that element of how she runs store on daily basis
      • Phenomenal shots – helped on still stuff
    • Dillon - Interviewing two people together – shy away from two-person interviews
  • Alex and Cara
    • Chris Vitiello does so many things – struggled to find which story to go after – work in education – how he is involved in that – got the sense that he always needs to be doing something different
      • What’s great about his artistry is that he is restless – able to do so many things that other people wouldn’t think of doing
      • What is story behind Fox – restless, hated idea of being stuck in one job – likes projects
    • Carson – so charming, great b-roll, musical transitions helped break it up, executed on that well, eye contact on coffee shop was good – people coming and taking pictures
    • See fox even though he is not in costume
    • Jillian – music bounced along with him
    • Sophie – loved it – two comments – typewriter is really interesting instead of a laptop, most of projects are based on business – how does he make money – different side of entrepreneurship
      • Freelance writer, does his own poetry workshops, used to be a professor at UNC, just got a job at NC State in libraries
    • Loved opening and closing shots with stamp, use of different types of music definitely helped set pace of story in general
    • James Todd – liked depth that shots provided
    • Jonathan – contrasting pieces – different ends of spectrum with pacing, contribute well to different story that is being told – sense of restlessness and urgency came forward – funny shots
    • Amy – montage at end was unique
    • Raquel – liked the video
  • Sophie and Wei
    • Unfortunately Sophie couldn’t be – added whole another component to story and took it in a completely different direction
    • Cooler angle – discussed talking with family – can make a video of 40 minutes of Jerry – different characters – room tone is different – reduce room tone in audio
    • Leigh Kathryn was so receptive and helpful – hopefully use video for marketing purposes
    • Jerry - talks a lot about family and passion for nature
    • Amy - Family photo moment, identifying beekeepers was good shot, could you find a photo of Leigh
    • Carson – great footage, in focus, rack focus, well shot, opened with someone else’s voice other than hers – left turn into Redneck Express – Jerry’s voice fix is worse than problem
    • Raquel – first mention of him – video – opportunity at shot of him talking w Jerry – connects that a little bit easier
    • Cara – loved shots of farm, looking through door at him outside
      • Logistics of bees – how to not get nervous – had outfit on – rooftop of American Underground campus – take them off – pretty peaceful – stand in certain area
    • Dillon – mixed visual and storytelling elements – saw him in dark at end – closed it off well – shows effort to put it into entire days
  • Tristan and Jillian
    • Looking at pictures of him – such an incredible and genuine person – tried to convey that – childhood is what we wanted to explore – pushed him on army brat and how it has influenced it
      • Kathryn – gets mad if people are not genuine and that is how he was raised in Army days – shown in his art
    • RealLaww doesn’t know Napoleon – three interviews – Napoleon and wife Kathryn
    • Carson – preached about doing pre-qualification interviews, don’t spill the beans, but give them a general idea if they can contribute something of value
      • No three interview limitation – get Laww out of there if you want to – polish this up for 4th video
      • Gotta level out audios – overmodulated – hot and quiet – pen tool – level it out
      • Noticed an interview jump cut – cover it up
      • Looking off shallow end – big lounge chairs – color not great
      • Did a good job of weaving Laww in there
    • Sophie – seems like a genuine, easy person to talk to – so happy to share everything – great character
      • Making music is not interesting thing visually – made it look neat at moments – liked piano thing
      • Can do that with b-roll
    • Raquel – nice profile shots
    • James Todd – back story is powerful emotionally – older photos went with interview – might have had back story
    • Listen to his whole album see if song fits story, Amy wants to hear his voice,
    • Kathryn – content of interview is good – observation of Napoleon – strengthened relationship between upbringing and art