A few weeks ago, we were given an assignment over the six-shot system and the rule of thirds. We had to make short videos consisting of six scenes with each scene using one of the six shots- Extreme Close-up, Close-up, Medium, Wide Shot, Extreme Wide Shot, and Over-The-Shoulder. The video is below. It may not be the best, but it's good in my opinion.
First of all, we had to make a storyboard. Mine was finished in almost fifteen minutes, and revolved around someone playing a prank on their friend involving a gum-wrapper and a piece of paper with a Filthy Frank quote. I got my friend Nicole to work on the video with me in a joint effort. We recorded our video at the main staircase. We were rather quiet, so it's a little hard to hear our voices in the video. We didn't record until the Friday of that week, so we had to edit the video next week. I was in charge of editing. which wasn't hard at all- I've done it plenty of times. I simply cut off some of the unwanted shots, and we were good to go.
During the process, I managed to get comfortable with Premiere Pro. I think that I won't have any future problems with it. And according to the feedback from my classmates, the story was nice and the use of the six shots was clearly there. But, there were a couple of continuity errors and the voices were hard to hear because we didn't speak up.
If I did this project again, I would speak up more when recording and try to stay consistent as well. I would keep the story and the six shots there, because they were just fine. I've learned that I need to stay consistent and not just jump around from scene to scene, and to speak up so that people can hear me. And maybe, some subtle background music would work well with the video.
Overall, I thought this project was fun! I enjoyed recording, editing, and watching everyone's videos. I can't wait to see what we'll do next!
Thank you for reading :)
