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Assignment 3: Video Creation

Group 2: The Idiot Box – Grace, Jeremy, Yulia & Michelle

Q1. The challenges and tribulations of being a group assignment

The main challenge we faced was to actually choose what the video should be about. Our blog content is related to reviewing and rating TV shows across a number of different genres; this made it difficult to actually think of what to film that would be relevant.

We didn’t want to make it boring of us just watching TV shows or just having clips from TV shows which we already have up. We finally came up with the idea of introducing ourselves to the readers, which is simple and still relevant to our Blog.

All the members of the team are studying in different areas outside of Information Technology. Because we’re all on different timetables we didn’t have a time suitable to meet and record our video outside of the practical sessions. This meant that all the filming and editing had to take place in 1-2 lab sessions.

Q2. The process of creating the video

1st Stage

The group finalised the running order and style of the video and completed the script allocating parts to each member.

2nd Stage

We arranged a space outside the lab to film our introductions. This included straight to camera pieces with members introducing themselves and which part of the Blog they’re responsible for.

3rd Stage

We arranged a space inside the lab and filmed the remaining section of our video, which involved three members of the team showing the different activities that go into the making of the blog: 1) watching shows 2) editing posts 3) uploading posts.

4th Stage

Still in the computer lab, we filmed the final part of the video – the closing statement that Jeremy completed straight to camera.

5th Stage

Editing – initially we had intended to complete the editing in the computer lab during the practical, however the camera that we used required a firewire cable to upload the video to the PC and we did not have one available. This meant that the video had to be edited at home using iMovie HD for Mac. When the editing was in process, it was discovered that one of the clips filmed did not save correctly, consequently one of the ‘to camera’ pieces from Yulia is absent from the finished product.

In addition to the content from the filmed portions, beginning and end titles were added as well as music and an additional audio file that relates to some of the content on the Blog.

6th Stage

Finally, the video was compressed into a Quicktime file and uploaded onto the blog using the Blogger uploading tool.

Q3. How does the video relate to your Blog?

The Blog is about watching and reviewing different TV shows, each team member chose a different genre of TV to review, which includes: Anime, Drama, Comedy and Reality TV. The video relates to the Blog because it shows the different steps that are required to create the posts. It also invites readers to contribute ideas and or suggestions of other TV shows we could review – creating an interactive opportunity for the readers.