Recently, I have been working on my corporate video, which is my promotional video for my course.
I have still followed the two students, making their film. These are for action sequences to add in the interviews.
My lecturer looked through the footage I had and he rekoned it needed alot of improving. Looking back at the footage, I can see what he meant. The colors weren't right, the sound was uneven and there weren't enough action sequences. He suggested that I would film any filming objects or somebody preparing equipment etc.
To help this, that night, I went to the Staffs TV organisation up at the uni and used a little handycam to film people preparing the sets, behind the scenes, preparing the cameras etc. I filmed these when I had time because I had a role to do for that evening's show, which was auto cue operator. The evening went very well and I collected lots of footage.
The day at the nativity
As soon as I got in college the next day, people had to help Bill film a children's nativity that was happening near Stafford. Bill said to me that if I wanted to capture footage of them filming the event, I had to come now. So I chose to go with them. Wile I was there, I shot lots of footage of everyone preparing the equipment, shots of the equipment itself and also the students actually filming the event. These I thought would really work for the event.
During the same day, I was still editing of what I had. But I realized that at one interview with Bill, he mentioned about the DSLR's. So, with quick thinking, I asked for a handycam and filmed some shots of a DSLAR and even filmed it recording something. I also asked for a help from a student to film me pursuading students to come to the course and saying Bill's mobile number and email address. This was for the end of the video.
Editing
The video had to be in soon, so it was time to get this video up and running. I looked back at the previous footage and the first thing I did was fix the color balance to make it look nicer. Here's an example
Some of the clips unfortunately, were quite glitchy, so I deleted it and had another copy on my timeline (which was a godsend!).
I then put it all together, making the titles were correct, the picture and sound etc.
For the music, I looked on YouTube to find novelty free music to use. I did find a couple of tracks that sounded very good but then I found the one that was just right. For doing this, I have a program on my computer called 'vdownloader', which downloads YouTube videos. Here is what it looks like:
What you do, is that you click on the link of the video on YouTube and copy it. This is immediately sent onto the program. When its there, you click the Download icon. It takes a minute to download. It then goes onto the videos file on my computer.
I then watched the video and they really liked it. My mum gave me some constructive criticism by saying turn the music down slightly and highten up the student's interview's volume slightly. So that I will do. After it's done, off to YouTube it goes :)
