Art of Video Critique
by Alex Vargas 5th period
Pre-production:
Well we were looking to do a sport and we were originally going to do Volleyball but Ricky had taken it for his piece so we decided since nobody was going to take tennis we snatched it up. Since Gino is on the boy’s tennis team we knew most of the players and what they do during practice so we did not need to research it.. We also randomly chose our interviewees out by way of either eenie meenie miney mo which was pretty funny. We wanted to have a crane and have an over shot but that did not plan out.
We wanted to have the players playing in the background so it could get emphasis on the shot. We also needed to have some shots of the players showing what they do. Our most creative shot was in the beginning when Conner got on the ground and had a tennis ball on the floor to provide a foreground while in the background we showed the players hitting the tennis balls. The shot was well lit and we aligned it perfectly so that we wouldn’t get anything put the player playing. We made sure that our lighting was good since we spent like and hour trying to find the perfect spots for the shots. We deleted any audio that came out bad so we only picked teh elite shots.
I can’t do this without laughing because I had an annoying waiter voice to just reach out and tell you what was happening. This was so funny my voice was really high pitched too since we were going for a sense of just grabbing the attention of the viewer. I think our segment was very well informative and we had also picked the elite responses too so we had very informative responses we hope. We wanted the viewers to go out and support their Capuchino Tennis team.
Our B-rolls fit perfectly into the interview and voice overs. The shots matched up with the interview like when we were talking about technique improvement their was a still photo with a girl about to hit a tennis ball. The tittle was really well made and I had no clue how Conner even made that. Our shots moved smoothly into the next shot and teh ending part had it’s voices perfectly matched up with the action. There was absolutely no animation in our film.
What do you like best about your piece? What would you add or do differently if you had more time? What would you say is the most important lesson you can take with you after working on this project?
My favorite two shots were in the beginning shot when Conner got down on the floor and shot the girls playing Tennis in HD. I also really liked the shot where Conner spun around in a circle shooting all the girl’s doing their cheers. I think we actually had it pretty good and we could have used our time better if Conner wasn’t such a perfectionist trying to find an interview spot. I’m pretty sure some of the shots were all ready perfect, The lighting was just right and the background was just all the girls just playing Tennis, but Conner needed it better. The best thing that I learned from this if you are not a perfectionist than your film will be crap.
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