Natalie's Blog

 This is my commercial for the quarter 4 project. Our group product is called Shockers. It's a candy that gives you super powers for a limited amount of time. The super powers are teleportation, telekinesis, time travel, speed, strength, and invisibility. We wanted our commercial to be cheesy, but still funny. We wanted to give more than one example of how our product worked. We represented teleportation and telekinesis. For teleportation we had Alex act like he was running late to class when a "voice from above" gave him Shockers to help him get to class on time. We made sure to add some humor so it wasn't a boring monotonous commercial. When we did telekinesis we wanted the problem to be easily replaceable. The problem was Gabby didn't have a pencil for class so she looked around and spotted one that was to far for her to reach. To show the pencil "flying" we tied fishing line to the end of it and had Alex controlling the string. To go along with the c...

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.

In the  AB Sequence project I learned that you use almost all the same components as the 6 shot sequence. The only difference is that there are 2 sets of of 6 shot sequences and a few in between shots. In my next project I will try to incorporate different angles instead of the same angles each time. When I incorporate different angles it will make my video look more interesting. In a collaboration you combine two or more things together to creae one whole thing.  In this project you had to combine two 6 shot sequences with some extra shots in between to create one video. Having a partner also requires collaboration. We had to work together and use two activities of her choice and combine the clips into one video. 

The six shots in sequencing are extra close up, close up, over the shoulder, medium shot, wide shot, and extra wide shot. The extra close up is a scene of the person's hands and the close up is a scene of just the person's face. An over the shoulder is just how it sounds, only showing the back of the person's head and what they are doing. The medium shot shows from the person's hips up. The wide shot shows part of the scene and from their feet to their head. The extra wide shot shows the whole scene making the person look small. I learned that when doing a extra wide shot and wide shot the scene must have a specific view to classify as one or the other. Next time I do a six shot sequence I will be sure to make extra wide shot and wide shot look significantly different.