Things I'll need before we finish our interviews to make this video great:
o: Graphic-based introduction, displaying the Glass Art Conference Name, Logo, and presenting beginning credits of those interviewed, as well as the voice over person.
o: Name Plate Designs to have in front of the speakers, complete with space to fit their name and their title/profession.
> For these, we'll also need a list of names and their titles/professions to put into those nameplates, as well as deciding on the proper font. Need to remember that this is presenting the *GLASS* Art Society, so having the nameplates be reflective of how glass looks might help put the entire design together in an easy to identify with way.
I can do these if need be, but I'd imagine it looking nicer with a graphic designer's touch, and for that matter be created faster.
I've seen the other camera's shot of Brian Kennedy now, it looks a little more promising. He's a little too centered, so I may need to do a zoom crop, and the audio's terrible, but I should be able to use the audio from the other camera and match them up. Realistically, if we use mostly B-Roll, then sync will matter less, but syncing up the audio from camera 2 with the visuals of camera 1 will still be a task I'll need to do regardless. While there's a good deal of stuff we're going to need to work on, it should be able to look professional with enough tweaking.
We're going to need to go to the glass pavilion again. The footage that was digitized today has some nice still shots with decent uses of zoom and panning, but it moves a bit fast on some of them (slowing the footage down makes it have an obvious slow motion look, so it'd look better to just do it again). The footage that I had to use for the video for today's critique meanwhile... we need to shoot *all* of those again, as we can't use the anti-shake filter on Final Cut, as it just makes the pieces look worse, plus takes ages to finish, when we really don't *have* ages to wait. Bright side is for the footage we need to do again, we can look at the flawed footage as something to help us plot out what spots to visit, and it can still help us storyboard which pieces to show in what order.
Our third in progress critique, according to the blog calendar, is in three weeks, including Spring Break as time between (so two class weeks). I refuse to have our presentation be that embarrassing after what happened today, so we're going to need to when we're back make that pavilion trip be the week we're back, no ifs, ands, or buts. We don't have much time, and I can't exactly edit phantom footage. It'd be great if we could land a second interview before that critique as it'd mean me being able to cross-play the footage and have multiple speakers align topics, and getting that voice over audio would actually be very helpful for me. We also need to check out the cameras the day before so we can make sure we have full batteries on the cameras (the footage tends to become blurrier or bizarrely colored usually on cameras with low batteries).
I'll be buying masking tape to put on the ground to keep our subjects centered, as the footage of Brian Kennedy on camera 2 was just awful, even to the point Heather called it "shit" at least three times. She didn't refer to any other shots seen in class with profane words, so that means it was *really* bad. Just a note for the future.
During critique, two matches were found: Scientific American image matching the bowl in the pavilion, and supposedly the math science building having the piece in Labino013.gif. If someone else wants to record the Math Science Building one, feel free, otherwise I'm tackling that the week we're back after my class from 1:00 to 1:50 ends.
It'd also be good to get the glass harmonica audio as soon as possible, as I have audio editting software, and also that audio could help me know what pace to have the glass pieces, voice over, and interviewed people follow, or if I'll need to tweak the speed of the glass harmonica to match those things, or if for that matter if we could even use it at all. Whatever we have to do, we need it ASAP, in the meantime I'll keep up my search for rights free glass audio, but if anyone else could help me search it'd mean more timesheet time and a higher turnout, since it's apparently hard to find.
Over Spring Break I'll be transcribing the audio from Brian Kennedy, and I'll make sure as we get more interviews to transcribe them as I digitize the footage to land two birds with one stone (since while digitizing it plays the footage anyway, might as well do both from here on). The voiceover audio would also be nice to have ASAP for transcribing, as it's not exactly a quick process, so whatever we need to do to get that audio, we need it. Badly. We can't wait until last minute for it as the transcribed interviews will help me know which footage to put where from B-Roll, or for that matter what footage we'll need to seek out to put there. It'd be weird to have the voiceover mention important topics and not be showing relevant footage for it.
I know this is horribly lengthy, but these are effectively based on the notes I took from the critique with some elaboration to also help me out, since things like Spring Break are amazing for getting off track.
- Nathan Day
I have already sent out emails: to Jutta about getting the rights to the harmonica music, to Jeff Mack about coming up the week after spring break to get the footage of glass blowing that we need and to the contact for the mayor about setting up a time to meet with him as well.
ReplyDeleteWe WILL have not only one more interview but hopefully mostly all of them shot by the next critique as well as the footage of the 280 bridge and skyline.
It is important that everyone communicates on the blog, especially over spring break if anyone works on the project over the next week.