College Video Evaluation

Content/mise-en-scene

In my college video I decided to do focus on the photography department at my college because that is the subject I'm most passionate about. So obviously the majority of my filming was done inside of the classroom. Since the photography classroom I filmed in is a very popular place for students to do work and photo shoots I didn't have complete control on how the classroom looked at any given time. Because of this I could only film with what was going on in the classroom at one given time. Which has it's pros and cons. A pro is that there is a lot going on in the classroom so their was always a lot to film but a con is I couldn't always film what I wanted to because people were using it for example. With this college video I decided to focus on the student work and also the equipment the students work so my target audience, year 11's and their parents know to what standard their students should be working at and how their kids can achieve such good work. One thing me nor my class didn't really like was the sign at the start. I feel that sign wasn't really for students who are not at the college or their parents because they wouldn't know what SET was until they had a few classes with their teachers.

Camerawork

The camerawork in my production was in my opinion a bit shaky. I don't think it was the best because a lot of my shots were static, which didn't look good compared and put aside moving shots. Other shots were very slightly out of focus which was fairly annoying. Especially when the shots were focused on the view finder looked in focus. Not only to myself, but to other people as well. There were some good shots in my video some of which I was very happy with, for example the pan shot of the darkroom I think was particularly good because of the consistent speed of the pan and the fact it was well lit and in focus. With shot distance I decided I wanted to stay quiet close for this video so my audience could get a real feel to what the Photography department was like. I allow anted to keep shot lengths fairly short so I could get as much of the department in as possible.

Editing and use of post-production effects

To edit my college video I used Adobe Premiere Pro. Where I used a number of editing effects including fade ins and fade outs, zooming and auto-focusing tool. I think the editing side of my video was done very well and these effects made my video look better than it actually was in my opinion. I also used an effect called cross dissolve in most of my shots so that they would flow better than if they just cut to one-another which would make my video look very cheap and unprofessional. With my editing I was trying to get a pretty slow-ish pace chilled out video my audience would enjoy and I think that went very well. Especially with my cool vibed music going the whole way through the video.

Sound

I decided I didn't want any voice-overs or speech of any kind in my video, so I just had a background song I got from a website called BenSounds. BenSounds offer a wide range of music for free as long as you credit them at the end. That's why you can see a credit at the end of my video. I think my music was really well suited to what my video was and I think my choice of music was one of the best parts of my video.

Graphics 

I had a number of different graphics through my video. To start with I had a title sequence which I thought was fantastic and really sold my video to my audience right from the off. At the end of my video I also had rolling credits which I think worked really well also. In my opinion these credits made my video look really professional. Also right at the end I credited my BenSounds music which I had to do. I really liked my title sequence because of the font I used to make it look really unique and it appealed to my audience. From my feedback from my class they all said that my title was one of the best bits of my video.


My class overall quiet looked my video. They all liked the variety of different shot lengths in my video, my title sequence and my music. One thing they all came together and said that wasn't good about my video was the mise-en-scene. They particularly didn't like the fact that parts of my video were dark and fuzzy. As I said above I couldn't control that but if I end up shooting it again, I will take more care with the mise-en-scene in my video.


In conclusion I think that my college video was pretty good, my audience liked it and I think it was a well-rounded video. If I had the chance to shoot my college video again I would defiantly make sure that all of ym shots ar in focus before I shoot to the best of my ability.