Practice Story Assignment Reflection

Our most recent project in  my G.T. class was a practice story. We had to get into teams and choose one of us to interview. That person would communicate a story in the video. My team consisted of Claudia Hanson, Gabby Mahoney, and Me. Our story was why Gabby loves dance. We had top notch Cannon cameras and wireless microphones. One of the requirements was B-roll. This is important in telling the story. B-roll is just video over the interviewees voice. We were graded on the sound quality, the storyline, and the video quality. This assignment was just a warm up for what we're about to do next. An interview of one of our elders telling their words of wisdom.

During the process, I thought my team worked well together. Sometimes we disagreed. I feel like we weren't always working great, but then again we never really butted heads. Claudia worked on the transitions. Basically, just adding some voiceovers in between the interview so that the whole thing kind of ties together. Gabby worked on the transcription template. This is a basic outline of how we were going to shoot the video, what questions we were going to ask, and the b-roll or transitions. All of us did the editing in Final Cut Pro X. We were a little late on the deadline, but I feel like the quality of our video was good. Getting B-roll was tough because we didn't have any props and there is only so much we can do with footage of Gabby dancing. 

Overall I believed that this practice story was great practice for what we have coming up. I do think that it prepared us in terms of working together as a team and meeting deadlines. That is the most important part. Even though the audio and video needs to be a priority too, we can't get that stuff done without cooperation and teamwork.