Live Event Video

Hullo there! Welcome back to another blog post by me! Today is about a maker project. In maker class, in this school year, we have been focusing mainly on making videos and learning how to make these videos. We have made several videos, but today we will be focusing on our most recent video, I.e. the Live Event Video.

The Criteria for this Video 

The live event video project was kind like it sounds. We had to film and document an event that was happening in real time, for example your little sisters soccer match. It could NOT be a sorry we had written, like our … video where we wrote the story ahead of time.

In this video we had very specific criteria for what shots and other things  we had to include:

– A Time lapse or sped up footage

– A slow mo shot

– A freeze frame ( when you are playing a video and it pauses on an image and then keeps going)

– An interview with someone participating in the event

– Copyright Free Music

– Photo with Kenburns (this effect in IMovie where the phot will start at one point and move down)

– An action plan detailing my shots and what I planned to do for the video (as you can see below)

– The Video had to be two minutes or shorter

What makes a good video? 

Before I tell you about my video and what I chose to do for it, I should tell you that our teachers have clear ideas on what makes a good video. So we had this rubric that indicated what made a good video and we would get graded on if we met the standards on this rubric. The non-negotiables are things we have to do, they are NOT negotiable, you have to do those things. The things to refelect are areas you have to fix. The things to celebrate are areas you have exceeded on in your video. You can see it below.

I made my video about…what?! 

So I’ve got to say that my live event video is about a bit of a strange thing. I went to my dads job. My dad is a geographer who specializes in studying rivers. To test one of his theories about rivers and how they flow he built a flume. A flume is a miniature version of a river, or body of water  and you can run experiments on it.  He examines why he’s building this flume the video. I went to his lab and helped him build the flume, and documented it for my video.

The first draft I made was a bit rocky. The Audio was strange and my interview with my dad was only at the end. The second draft was worse, much worse. I made the video too long, and again the interview was only at the end.

My third draft I think was much better. The video was short enough, and I took pieces from my dad interview and used them only as audio in the background for when we were building the flume. You can watch it below!

Conclusion 

I really enjoyed this video and this project because I got to show something pretty neat and interesting from my point of view. It was a bit challenging trying to document something that isn’t exactly common knowledge. If I could do it again, I would get better audio quality. Well that’s it! See ya soon!

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