In the past, I have never had to worry about making a storyboard before creating a video. The process of making the storyboard was more challenging than I thought it would be since I had to intentionally think out the vision for my video frame by frame. I found that I had trouble deciding where in my video it would be beneficial to have wide shots versus medium shots and close-ups.
Even once I figured out where I wanted to use different kinds of shots, I had trouble coming up with the sequencing of my family photos. I mainly had trouble because I wanted to show as many photos of me and my family as possible without the video feeling too much like a slide-show.
All of the trouble I encountered when thinking out the layout of my video showed me just how difficult it can be to produce media content. However, I also felt like all the planning that I did helped me be more organized when filming shots for my video and putting them together.
Filming the actual shots that I used for my video were not hard, but I did have some trouble finding pre-existing photos and videos of my family to use for this project. Because of this, there are parts of my media video that did not turn out as well as I would have liked.
At the beginning of the video, I have an introduction clip of me discussing some of the ways that the coronavirus has impacted my life. While this introduction clip is necessary, I feel like that I show myself talking for too long before cutting to some shots showing pictures of me and my family.
In addition, I feel that some of my transitions are kind of awkward. An example of this is when I am showing some shots of photos of my family and then I cut to the video of me talking before cutting back to more photos. These transitions seem unnatural to me, and I had trouble trying to smooth them out.
While I had some issues in my video, I felt that I did other parts of it well. For one, I chose music that I think goes with my video well as it is upbeat and positive while not being too distracting. I also think that the photos of my family that I chose are good ones as they display different moments of my family and I finding joy in spending time together. I especially like that I was able to find a place to put a video of my cat as my pets are also an important part of my family.
If I did this project again, I would definitely make some improvements on my video. For one, I would try and find more videos of my family hanging out rather than just photos. Too many photos makes a video like this duller, and I would like to make this video seem more engaging in the future. In the future, I would also cut down on the actual talking I do in this video as I am talking for almost the entire two minutes. This makes the video seem like there is too much information being presented in a short amount of time.
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