Natalie's Blog

Throughout video I enjoyed editing the most. I learned how to properly use Final Cut Pro, even though I have never used it before, and shortcut keys to make editing easier. Learning shortcut keys really helped during editing. If I had to use the long process of clicking in the toolbar each time editing would have taken much longer. If it was that way I don't think I would have enjoyed editing as much.Throughout video we used the 6 shot sequence and learned how important framing is. If your actor's head is cutoff you have to redo the shots because it doesn't look nice. It's like taking pictures of people, but in motion. If you cut the head off of a person in a picture the picture doesn't look as good as it could have been with a full head shot. In the future if I don't go into filming I know I can use skills I learned in this class in a different field. The 6 shot sequence I could use in photography because taking pictures are like still frames in video. Overa...

I liked this web project. It wasn't too hard for me because I had taken a class over the summer about web design. At first I was confused because it had been a while since using dreamweaver, but after refreshing it made more sense to me. Sometimes I got confused about what I was doing, but asking people around me helped me figure it out.

In the chase scene project I learned that the way you set up scenes and organize them can really change the mood and tone of a movie. While our group was story boarding we had to decide what type of one we wanted. In my next project I will organize my clips in my story board more accurate to how the movie would look like in the end. In this collaboration I had to work with more than just one other person. We had to combine all of our different ideas into one movie. We all had different views on how the movie should look and then had to work together to make them into one. I would improve collaboration next time by making sure we were all here knowing what is going on and everyone contributed. Overall as a group we worked well together and had a good time.