This I believe Rough Video

My video wont post on my blog. Its on youtube

Editing Final Project

I love to edit my raw material.  I feel like when I am shooting, most of the time, I do not have the time to actually take i everything that is happening at the moment.  When its time for me to go back and edit, I get the chance to experience the of watching not only the show through the video's "eyes" with the angles and sound but I also can see the whole story unfold in my mind.  This is the time when I think the video project actually sees so many stages in my process.  I take the time to change things and play with things.  I feel like this is an opportune time to decide which way you want your movie to be finalized, unlike when you are shooting, you can delete and change things where needed. I believe that actual editing of the movie can be just as important as what is captured when shooting the video.  Nonetheless, in the end, the two stages have to work together for a successful movie to occur.  Though sometimes editing tricks can save a movie, if there is not enough of the content gotten when the shooting is done, there are some instances when all is at a loss. 

Post-Production Stage Final

I got a lot of great footage of my mom while I was interviewing her for the "This I Believe" video.  My mom was a good subject because she had a lot of stories and experience, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to interview her on the subject.  I think that I also got some good footage of my family interacting on Thanksgiving and both friends and family at my god mother's bridal shower.  When I was going through my raw footage some of my shots were kind of shaky so that is why I decided to try to get some interactions between family and friends.  I also thought that by getting some of that footage I would be able to add some variation to the movie so that it wouldn't be just talking. My ideas for the video were continuing to evolve as I got more footage.  One of these ideas were to use the interaction footage I got along with the voice over from my original footage of my mom.  I utilized my new found knowledge of how to separate audio and video, which Lucas taught me, to fully achieve my final product. This being so, I believe that my final product was a success. I think that I achieved my goal of finally starting to be able to have a product that I am proud of that utilizes different aspects of iMovie and its features.  In addition, the subject, my mom, that I chose to analyze such a sincere and interesting social issue had very insightful stories and experience that people should hear.

Production Stage Final Movie

For my project, I would like to portray how people feel about friendship as it relates to family, and for most people how friendship can evolve to something bigger.  Today the social issue involving family is, when people say "blood is thicker than water" and consider friends their blood. 

For my storyboard of this video, I have a sketchy idea right now. I will start my project by interviewing 2-4(time permitting) about what they feel either friends or family are and then asking the relationship between the two.  I then will talk wit a peer of mine about a specific situation when friendship was almost as important as family.  I will then tie the two together with a brief comment by one of the previously interviewed people about the relationship of family and friends.  I then will talk with my mom about how her friendships, with her being older have evolved over the years and a specific episodes when she found friendship to be most important.  I haven't quite decided how I will then end my video yet, however. 

I began to interview people for my beginning and transitions.  I interviewed them in separate places so that they could not hear each other's answers.  I did this because I did not want any one's answers to influence the next.  However, I think that I will interview a few more people just to see if I can get some better footage and a variety of answers. Maybe for my final I can have one younger like college kid and one older person, just so that it can kind of foreshadow my movie. 

Nonetheless, I like the direction my movie is going in at the moment.  I think that it will be an interesting story when it is done.  However, it still has potential to go in a few different ways pending on the anecdotes I get from people and the responses they have to my questions. 

Pre-Production Stage Final

This topic is personal for me because my own beliefs, morals, and values led me to this topic. I believe that friendship is an essential key to life and being happy in life.  I feel like friendship is just one of those things that it is hard to live without.  

I am kind of nervous about my project since we did not see any student samples of this project, I am not sure if my topic relevant.  I do not know if my topic is going to be of interest and fulfill the requirements to get an A.

My project is going to be out how friendship is essential to life and can come about in many different people, venues, and time frames. I want to show this by mainly following my mom around during the Thanksgiving holiday.  My mom has always been a very popular person so whenever she goes somewhere she seems to know someone.  Nonetheless, she has select groups of friends that she is continuously with.

Goals

My goal for my project is to show how important friendship is and how it can evolve from beginning to end.  I intend to show how friendship is an important factor in everyday life and how it can be almost essential as water and food. 

Recording

Brainstorming For Video

Evolving of friendships

Living life full out

Friends to the end

I think that I may do my next video on friendship and how friendship evolves. BUT Im not quite sure yet how this may be possible since it is such a abstract idea. I think that maybe I could show some people that I know who have been friends for years. Now that I think about it, over break I could possible follow my mom around and see how the many friendships she has evolved over the years.  My mom has so many friends that I swear we can hardly go anywhere without someone saying Dawn is that you or someone yelling out Dawnie. This being so, she does have friends that she grew up with that she still spends time with and friends that she has known since grammar school.  My mom works a lot now so she doesnt see them as much but she keeps in touch using all our family minutes every month.  Usually over holiday breaks, we see and visit all her close friends or they come to my grandma's house to visit. 

This I Believe Edited

It was a regular Friday, well as regular as Friday the 13th's get, night my senior year of high school.  We had a big football game that night against our "rival" team.  Nonetheless, we were all friends so we all went out to Buffalo Wild Wings that night.  It was at least 30 of us and we were all just having fun, eating, and taking pictures.  It got to be around midnight and  knowing that my bestfriend, Seonnee, had a curfew I reminded her that it was probably time to find her friend and go home.  About 10 or 15 minutes later, we were done so we were walking to the car and we saw Seonnee arguing with her friend telling her to come on they had to go.  They left literally 5 minutes before us.  What happened next, I will never forget. 

I had just got home and Seonnee sister called me to ask me if I knew Briana's, Seonnee's friend, number.  This immediately seemed weird since her sister was away at school, but I just said no, but they should be home soon. They left right before me. Next thing I know, another friend was calling me saying that Seonnee had been in a real bad car accident. She had hit by a drunk driver only about 5 blocks from my house and thrown out the car.   They didn't know if she would be alright. She was being rushed to St. James hospital.  The next few minutes are still a blur to me. I had known Seonnee since I was 2 years old.  All I know is I ran up the steps to wake up and tell my mom.  She told me to put my clothes on so we could go because I wasn't driving and she would call Seonnee's mom.  First she took me to the accident spot and until this day I don't know why but I was crying at this point and couldn't form the words to ask. 

When we finally arrived at the hospital, everyone was there.  All of our friends were sitting by each other, her mom was sitting by herself, going crazy, and then the rest of her family. Briana's friends and family were also there.  The waiting room was packed but I chose not to sit by anybody.  I am not usually a person that cries, but I could not bear what was going on so I just had to be by myself.  People came by to check on me, including my and Seonnee's mom, but I never moved.  It felt as if time was moving so slow that night, but as people had to start going home around 4  and 5, I stayed. I couldn't go without seeing Seonnee. Though the time was moving slow, it had become 6 am without me noticing because I couldn't go to sleep. When she was able to see people before surgery, her mom said she wanted me and I went in.  It was so hard to see her in that much pain, she had broke her leg in 3 places, her hip and had infinite scratches and bruises. Nonetheless I was glad she was alright, well at least alive.  

That was night that I found that friendship is something should cherished and never taken advantage of, and never to get behind the wheel of a car under the influence.