Video Project Process

Our video is posted on Sean's blog.

This was a fun project. It was very different than anything I ever done. I guess everything we've done in class is all new to me. Yes, we've all done our standard interviews where we ask the person questions and put it down on paper, but with this project we did ask them questions but rather on paper it was on video. It was very difficult to find something or someone that we found interesting. We tried to think of different places and the only place that seemed somewhat interesting was the movie theater. So we thought we would try the Savoy movie theater but they didn't really seem too happy to do anything with us which was fine with us because after thinking about it, that idea kind of sucked. Then at a spur of the moment idea we decided to go to Friar Tuck. I figured since we are college students and love alcohol, why not go learn more about it. It was interesting to learn how their store is set up and when their busiest times of the year are or even which is the most expensive bottle they have there. I think the hardest part of the project was actually putting the movie together. Sean was very useful with this part because I had no idea how to work our video camera since I forgot to charge it the first time we went to record, so I really didn't know much about iMovie. We had difficulties at first because it wasn't working exactly right but after about 15 minutes messing with iMovie, we finally got to work in putting the movie together by having Lisa talk in the beginning and then have her talk and then show a clip of what she is talking about. I would have liked to figure out how to strip the sound and use that while we go through the store, but that was pretty hard to figure out. Sean took the video home and added transitions to the video which was good so it wouldn’t look like we just put a bunch of clips together. We actually had to cut a lot of footage out because we recorded about 9 min. I didn’t think we would be able to even do that because I thought 4-6 minutes was a lot to fulfill. I liked this project a lot. It was something different and we were able to see what happens behind the scenes of place that we thought we knew very well. I didn’t know that they have the wine split by countries or how the rest of the store was set up. It was very different to me and really fascinated me. The person we talked to really loved her job and was actually willing to do the interview with us unlike the people at Savoy. All in all, I’m very pleased with this project and its outcome. I was worried at first because we couldn’t think of anything but I’m glad we decided on Friar Tuck.