10/10 Class

            In class on Thursday, the Doc was on the mend and was not able to make it to class so we had H.J.D. for the second consecutive class which was good because he explained the voice over process to the class.
           On Wednesday night, Ryan got injured in our intramural basketball game with five minutes to play and they ended up calling the game and we lost. He ended up needing five stitches but didn't tell me he was going to miss Thursday's class and he had the script for the voiceover for out Public Service Announcement. So, I was not able to complete the voiceover without him. Instead, I worked on fine tuning the video and polishing up a little bit.
            I helped Erica and Jenna working on their video with any questions they had regarding premier or anything else in general. I feel myself becoming more and more comfortable using premier as I continue to play around with it and do different things. It is a very dynamic software program especially compared to iMovie and even more so Windows Movie Maker, which I have used editing videos in the past.
            I also find it interesting how the adobe software programs that are on the lab computers, all have a similar interface. I am taking Graphics 1 and we work with illustrator a lot as well as indesign, and it is interesting noticing all of the similarities between the applications, and I think this is another reason why I am becoming more comfortable with premier. I am looking forward to completing our Public Service Announcement and doing the voiceover.

10/8 Class Review

               Yesterday in class with H.J.D. we continued our work with the technical side of video production, working and editing with adobe premier. H.J.D. told us that instead of having to do all of the GreyComm hours (which a lot of people have yet to start) that we could watch tutorials on Lynda.com. If we complete all of the tutorials, this will count as ten hours towards the GreyComm hours. This will be good because we will learn more and more about premier while getting hours for class. I have already watched some of the tutorials and found them pretty informative. He assigned Tutorials 1-4 which in total is 2 hours but I have already completed 1-3 and so far, it has pretty much been a review of what we have learned so far and I am feeling pretty comfortable with it. 

               In class we worked with editing transitions for example, making an image or a video come into the screen on the left, and make it exit to the right. This is a pretty cool tool that Ryan and I might try to incorporate into our Drinking and driving Public Service Announcement. We used the images from the New York folder which we used a couple classes ago. H.J.D. told us not to worry about the voiceover for Thursday's class because we haven't learned how to do it yet. He said he will be in class tomorrow to explain how to do voice overs and help us out with them. He told us to make sure we have our scripts prepared so Ryan and I are going to meet up tonight and make up a little script to go along with our video. 

              Here is what we have so far: 

10/3 Class Review

           On Thursday, Doctor Chris told us that we needed to practice editing and preparing videos. He told us to team up, and assigned us to create a video using ten (or more) pictures from Google Images and compile them using Adobe Premiere to create a storyboard for a Public Service Announcement. Ryan and I teamed up and decided to do our public service announcement on anti drinking and driving.  We gathered images from google including pictures of a party, a text message provoking the person to leave, the person drinking while driving, a car crash, ambulances, and some "say no to drinking and driving" images. We put the images together in a way that a storyline could be understood. Class ended but Ryan and I stayed a little longer to try and finish it. We worked with some of the images and added an audio track. We made sure the images were approximately 3 seconds each because we had 10 and the PSA cannot be more than 30 seconds. A few of the images with text we made longer, giving the viewer a little more time to read it, so in turn, we had to shorten some of the other clips to accommodate. 
           We showed it to Doctor Chris and he told us to post it to YouTube. Then, he commented on the post telling us we need to add a voice over. So that will be our next step. I am looking forward to doing the voice over for the video, but Ryan and I need to meed up and write down a script of what I'm going to say and when. This was a fun little project and I feel myself becoming more and more acclimated to Adobe Premier. Ryan and I finished before every other group, showing that we know what we are doing, not that we were rushing or anything like that. I'm looking forward to tuning up the video a little bit more after we add the voiceover and trying to finalize a quality production. I'm looking forward to class on Tuesday with H.J.D to get more familiar with Premier.

Class Review Tues Oct. 1

Class Review 9/26