Last Video Class Reflection

April 28th, 2011- Last Class Reflection

Today was our last video class with Doc Chris.  Today was dedicated to finishing all of our work that we have been working on all semester.  Team City Wide turned out to be a great group being the first group to have all of their projects done!  Today we finished our promo for Tracks, the interview for Tracks and our commercial for Subway sandwiches.  We also learned a lot today while we were editing because we had a lot of questions and Jay was able to help us with our work.  We finally finished all of our projects and uploaded all of them to YouTube!  After class, we went to gain intern hours by helping Doc Chris with his Sight Sound and Motion class.  We had to all wear different colors, either red, blue or green.  Then Doc Chris had each group pose for sight, sound and motion.  While we were posing the other two groups were taking pictures or videos of our group.  This was Doc Chris' Sight Sound and Motion class final.  Everyone had a great time and it was a very fun way of giving out a final!


I was very sad when our class ended, because I will miss our class very much as well as Doc Chris.  I am very happy I took this class, because it made me realize how much I like film making.  I plan on helping out a lot with GreyComm studios next year, so I know I will be seeing Doc Chris often.  Overall, I really enjoyed this course and cannot wait to use all the skills I learned later in life!


Here are some photos from the Sight Sound and Motion final project:

This is Team City Wide's link to all of our projects!

Film Festival Reflection- April 26th 2011

First Annual Film Festival Reflection

On April 26^th, Loyola University held their first annual film festival.  I really enjoyed the festival, and saw a lot of productions that I really liked.  The festival showed a mixture of types of videos that Loyola students produced.  Since this was the first annual film festival, it featured some students that had graduated already.  It was really interesting and inspirational to see other students work.  By watching other students work I was able to think of ideas that I am interested in producing.  My favorite video was the music video for “I Love Knowledge”.  I thought it was really amazing how a Loyola student wrote the rap for it, and then produced a full music video for it.  My other favorite videos were the videos that the last person produced.  They had really cool effects and interesting plots.  Watching all the student produced films made me realize how much I want to produce my own film for fun!  In all, I really enjoyed the film festival and it was great to see my peers work!

An Interview with Quincy Lucas

An Interview With Quincy Lucas 

Today, I helped out another team in my class in the production of their interview with Quincy Lucas.  Quincy Lucas is the founder of Witney's Lights a non-profit organization for Domestic Violence.  Quincy Lucas is a good friend of Doc Chris, and I was very honored to meet her.  She is such an influential person and has been on almost every talk show (expect Oprah which she is working on!)  I was the switcher for this production, which means I cut from camera to camera so that the final product will not need a lot of editing.  I really enjoyed working with the other team, and learned a lot!  It was also a pleasure to meet Quincy Lucas and learn about Witney's Lights.  

Here are some photos from today!

Also here are some clips of Quincy on various talk shows!

Quincy on Larry King!

Witney's Lights A Year in Reveiw: 2009

Quincy Lucas VP Nomination Speech

President Obama Calling Quincy a Quiet Hero

***If you want to learn more about Witney's Lights go to http://www.witneyslights.com/ ***

   

Earning Intern Hours!

Earning Three Intern Hours!

So today I was walking to boulder to get some dinner, when I came across Doc Chris and his Sight Sound and Motion class.  He said I can earn 3 hours towards my interning hours if I observed some of the class and took a couple pictures of the class.


Here are the photos I captured!

THANKS DOC CHRIS FOR THE HOURS! 

An Interview with Eric D. Goodman

An Interview with Eric D. Goodman 

Today I got the honor to be the producer of Team City Wide as we interviewed Eric D. Goodman, Author of Tracks a Novel in Stories.  I was a little nervous to be the leader today and did not know what to expect.  I have never been a producer for an interview and was very surprised how well the interview went.  When Eric D. Goodman showed up we were all very excited to interview him and learn more about his new book Tracks.  Each member of Team City Wide had a different role in the production of this interview.  I was the producer, J-Smooth was the interviewer, Erick was the camera man, Julienne was the writer, and Shelly was the main camera man.  Also, Doc Chris and our class was in the control room watching the interview and cutting from camera to camera.  It took us two takes to get our final product.  Doc Chris was very impressed with our work and said that we did a great job.  Being the producer of this interview really opened my eyes to the possibility of my future.  After this interview, I realized that I might really enjoy working with productions such as this, and maybe even being a producer!  Eric D. Goodman was very happy with the interview and was a very nice man.  It was a pleasure having the honor to meet him and learn more about his upcoming novel.  I am staying in contact with him so I can update him on all of our progress.  In all, today was a great success and I had an amazing time!


Here are some photos from today!   

*** If you want to know more about Tracks visit www.tracksnovel.com ***

     

Class Reflection: April 7th, 2011

Class Reflection: April 7th, 2011

When we got into class today, we did our usual logging into the computer and writing that we were here on Facebook.  After that, Doc Chris took some time to discuss with us what was expected from us in the next final weeks of class. Doc Chris explained that we needed to have our commercial done by the time Jay gets back so we can edit it.  He also mentioned the different speakers who wanted to come in for us to interview.  Our group was appointed Eric D. Goodman.  During class I emailed Eric D. Goodman to ask if he was able to come participate in an interview with our class.

After that, Doc Chris let us use the cameras and take them to shoot some footage for our commercials.  This was the first time we would be using the camera to shoot some footage for our commercial.  Our commercial is for Subway.  We got the camera and we set off to get some footage, little did we know we were going to have major camera trouble.  Our camera was not recording and there were also zebra lines throughout the film indicating that there was a lot of light exposure. We called Doc Chris and he came over to help us.  He was unable to figure it out either, so we went back to the classroom to seek more help.  Right as we entered the classroom, the video camera started working again.  Then, finally we went off to shoot some footage.  We got a lot of nice footage, but we are still not finished shooting everything.  After we were done we came back to class and dropped the camera off.

Todays class was a lot of fun.  It was nice working with the cameras and actually video taping.  It was really nice Doc Chris helped us out with the camera and got it to work so we could get some footage.  In all, i really enjoyed todays class!

Class Reflection: March 31st

Lights Camera Action!

Class Reflection March 31st

Today class was dedicated to learning about the different lights used in video production, as well as working with the program Final Cut Pro.  Since Doc Chris was sick today, Jay took over class and was our teacher for the day.  I really enjoyed Jay's teaching style and I learned a lot from his two lessons.


For lighting Jay had us look at three different topics online before coming to class:
http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_of_lighting.html

http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_softlight.html

http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_softlight2.html

Jay, then took us into the GreyComm studio and allowed us to watch how lights were used.  He used a couple our classmates to help him demonstrate how to place lights on a subject.  


We learned that there were two main kinds of lights:
Key Light- Main light on the subject
Fill Light- Supports the Key light by filling in shadows that it creates on the subject
Kicker Light is also another light we learned about.


We also learned about the different ways to adjust the different lights when they are hitting a subject.
There is hard light and soft light and there are different techniques and instruments you can use to adjust them:
Umbrellas, bounce reflection cards are the two that Jay showed us.


Then after working in GreyComm studios and learning about lighting, we worked with Final Cut Pro with Jay, and we did another lesson in the lesson book.  I was really glad we worked on Final Cut Pro, because  I am now able to use the program a little with editing.  The more we practice the better we are going to get!


In all I really had a great time in class today!!