Ridic was the first to come up with the idea to make a skit about newscasters, and we wrote the entire script over the phone. Most of the production work naturally fell on ridic because he had better access to filming equipment and the relative complexity of his scenes. Because of this I did the majority of post production. During filming I created a news intro in blender and made Ridic’s background photo using the same file. Then I shot my scenes with help and equipment from ridic. After Ridic cleaned up the raw audio I put all of the clips together and added the music and effects to make the final product.
In the end, working with a partner taught me a lot about the actual process of filmmaking, how to work with a team, and how to complete a project you don’t have full control over.
My final is of a personal narration of an event in my life that was very emotional for me and caused me to become depressed. My parent’s divorce was something that was difficult for me to process and there was a lot to it that made me feel isolated and alone. I decided to shoot footage at my park across the street from the home I grew up in to get the feel of where I came from. It was a nice sunny day, so why not?
This wasn’t my original idea for my project, but with circumstances going on in my life, I chose to take a different approach at the project and do something more personal. Considering to this day I struggle from time to time coping with my emotions from my parents being separated, I thought maybe this would be a good chance to tell my story. Hopefully without judgment.
I had fun editing this project. I don’t think I’ve ever made a video edit that had very limited amount of video transition effects. The sudden jump cuts always made me feel uncomfortable, but in this project, it made me realize how normal and natural it actually feels. I did struggle to find the right sounds for my project, but the internet has everything, so of course I eventually found a solution.
This project is for sure a good way to end the term.
You’ll notice right away that this video is NOT shots taken of the outdoors. COVID was spreading around in my family, so I didn’t have a lot of chances to leave my room at decent times during the day, and I originally wanted to film some really cool VR shots with my friends and I- but the footage ultimately got corrupted and unusable. I then decided to film a game that I put most of my time into every day, which is called Final Fantasy XIV (14). I wanted to show off all of my favorite areas inside the game- I’m a very huge fan of 3d modelling, and despite the fact that the game tries it’s best to be optimized overall, the design of it manages to be aesthetically pleasing and has a lot of care put into each area- and I wished to show that in this video. I treated this similar to my aquarium video- filming things I found interesting and pleasing. It’s like going on a hike and taking pictures of places, but instead it’s all just in a game.
Final Fantasy XIV is a MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online videogame). You can party up with your friends, explore the open world, fight off monsters, and participate in the incredibly rich story the game offers to all it’s players. It’s genuinely a very comforting game for myself, and helps me connect with other people in a meaningful and friendly way. It’s basically like an interactable book or movie.
The software I used to record my desktop is called OBS. It was challenging to take most of these shots because I had to position my mouse in a way where the cursor wasn’t visible while also retaining the angle I wanted. There’s an in-game camera that I’m able to manipulate manually, but the characters were “locked” in place and couldn’t move through the environment whenever I would use said camera. There was also a lot of delay between when I would tell my friend to walk/run, and when his character would ACTUALLY walk/run due to server issues- but we solved this by just having him run outright in a specific direction while I played catch up at the right time.
For every new area, I had to physically move there in-game and move my camera into place, hoping not to bump against any walls or have any unwanted animals or objects somehow get into frame. I have a lot of raw footage of things just getting in the way, or even strangers just doing silly things in the background of the shots I took. I genuinely wouldn’t say that it was better OR worse than filming in real life- I had almost the same problems someone would have doing this somewhere outside with a real camera alongside some negative and more positive quirks that are specific to this game.
For my editing process, I actually wanted to try to make seamless transitions from area to area. My original plan was to mask in and out objects to create this transition, but I could only pull off ONE proper masking sequence before realizing it was WAY too time consuming and stressful. Instead, so I used a repeating animation to do these transitions more smoothly. I learned a lot more about the editing software I usually use, and am happy to say that I will be using what I learned a lot more in the future.
If you’re curious, this was actually heavily inspired by This video. I heavily recommend watching it if you’d like to see more zones and areas and see just how involved the community is.
At first when my classmates started suggesting that Quinn and I worked together I thought it was just a fun little joke that would never come to fruition. Several weeks later and here I am staring at the final product of our hard work together. It’s been a pleasure working with Quinn and I’m glad I followed through with the idea.
Going into the project it took us a while to come up with an idea to begin with. Would we do a good cop bad cop? Would we do an angel and devil on the shoulder? Or perhaps an Ace Attorney style conflict between two lawyers? Luckily we came to the idea of playing news anchors which worked out rather well as all of the other ideas would have required at least one other person as this really just required the two of us and a little bit of voice work from my dad.
As far as filming went, my side of it required me to set up a make shift studio in my house having to move around tons of furniture to get as close to a news anchor look as possible. Also perhaps using green tie with green screen was not the brightest idea, but at least it was dark enough to not be too noticeable. Being on my own to film my part lead to quite a lot of procrastination and turned what should have been a 10 minute shoot into 2 hours wasted.
Quinn’s side of it had us both on location at the Valley River mall using my camera and was over a lot quicker than I expected as having someone else with me kept me on track to not mess around and work on getting the shooting done as soon as possible.
When editing, I worked on getting the green screen effect to work on my clips and getting the effect of the camera falling over to look right, as I had to do it on my own being I didn’t have an extra hand to tip over requiring a lot of overhaul in post. After that, I trimmed my excessive amount of footage to a couple takes and sent them over to Quinn for him to decide which ones to use before putting it all together into the final project us, hence why it is on his channel and not mine.
It’s been a pleasure working with you, Quinn. Here’s too hoping we have future classes together.
I decided I wanted to push myself and do a short 2D animation. I wasn’t sure if it was possible to do in such a short time by myself, so I spent three hours doing a quick animatic of the entire sequence to gauge the amount of work. In hindsight, the animatic masked how much work this would really take. In the end, the animation is stiff and messy, and the composition and flow of shots were done on the fly to allow more drawing time.
The end result is something I can see the flaws in, yet I hold pride in being able to complete something of this nature by myself when I had little experience in making videos or lengthy animation.
Software used:
Adobe Photoshop (Windows) – animation and graphic design
Adobe Premiere (Windows) – video, audio compilation and video effects
As an International student , I have been in Eugene for almost 3 years now. It is not easy to leave your home, family and friends and go to a different country. I know that it was my decision to come all the way down here. It does take a while to adopt a lot of different peoples, cultures, languages and foods. I would like to share the video of my Memories and experience in these 3 years in America. It is very lonely at the beginning, something I would just cry to express my emotion about how much I miss my home. I am worried about how I am going to do everything by myself. However, I am very lucky that I met a lot of people who showed me their kindness while I am struggling with life here. I am very glad I can be here and get a lot of helped from school, teachers,classmates and friends here. I learned so much and I am very grateful that we are in a good environment to have a great experience.
I just want to use this opportunity to show everyone, no matter who you are or where you are from, that if you have a dream, don’t be scared to take the chance to chase your dreams.
background music from youtube- by“MorningLightMusic”
My son participated in all of my projects, and we spent a lot of great time together, but I need to say that it is not easy to work with kids. For moments my son got really tired when something was not good and we needed it to start all over again. I thought it was going to be easy and fast to create a simple video, but I realized that even simple things require time, effort, and dedication. The first thing I did before starting the project was choosing the music. The music gives me the idea of what type of video I wanted to create. Recording a video or getting still images need special attention in order to create good content. For this video, I tried to use some angles, and also medium shots, and close ups to attract more of my viewers ‘ attention. Even though all of the inconveniences I had, I would like to say that I enjoyed doing this project so much, and my son had a lot of fun.
I think editing was the most challenging part. It requires a great deal of time because we need to edit the music, video, pictures, and effects. To edit this project, I used Premiere Pro and After effects. Now, I feel more confident working with this softwares that I want to continue doing more videos and continuing practicing. Finally, I would like to thank the teacher for this great term.
Wow! It’s crazy to me how fast this term has flown by! I can’t believe we are already submitting our final projects. This was a vey fun project to make, although it took a lot of diligent research, image editing/audio editing, and video editing. I am still VERY new to Premiere Pro so learning everything was a major adjustment. I am very happy now that I have picked up these skills and plan to utilize them in the future. In terms of how the project went, I struggled at first with making my voice sound good and not drowned out by my music or other audio files. I eventually got the audio as best as I could, but I was sick at the time of recording so I apologize if I sound monotone. Overall, this project improved my vocabulary of Premiere Pro a ton. I hope that you all enjoy the project and possibly learn something you didn’t know before! Thanks again!
Making this movie was super fun! I filmed it over two days, one day for the trip to the book store and to get food, and the other day to film me arriving and leaving my friends house because I forgot to film that on the first day. Editing it to be less than three minutes was the most challenging part but I think I did a good enough job so that the “story” still makes sense. At first I edited the video to have the song “Time to Pretend” by MGMT play but towards the end of the editing process I was watching other people’s videos and saw that they had royalty free music so I figured that we weren’t supposed to have copyrighted music and had to find another song and edit that in which was a bit challenging.
