Progress:
In working on my capstone film, I have had a lot of successes. I think this is due to the fact that the project I am teaching my students right now involves writing scripts and making films of their own. This has been truly fortunate timing. I have shown my students Adobe Spark in the past and recently we have covered story-boarding. Having this level of transparency with my students has ultimately benefited my work. It has given mutual authenticity to their work as well as my own. Overall, I am confident in the message and tone of my video. I think it will do a sufficient job of conveying the purpose of my capstone without being too cluttered. Struggles: While I have had some success with my work, that is not to say I have not had an equal share of struggles. Stock images are very frustrating. There seem to be countless stock images and yet, so few of what I envision. I have had to resort to taking footage of my own students working, which is not an issue except for the additional consent forms required. Another issue I have is with timing. Initially my script was longer than 90 seconds. Then, after some rewriting It fell under a minute, which I feared may be too short. My main goal is to provide solid content in a brief and simple way. Next Steps: My next steps will involve replacing my placeholder stock images with more authentic images of my students. Ideally I would work in live footage however that will eat up more of my limited time. Currently I have no voice over and need to rectify that issue. After that, I should have a decent advert for my capstone.
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Patrick
11/16/2017 12:20:42 pm
I share your struggles with stock images! It kind of feels like a Catch-22. Stock images are already done, so I am not restricted by finding real world time with "actors" to accomplish things and I have a wide variety of images to work with but none of them perfectly match what I envision! If only I had unlimited time and an unlimited budget to hand craft the perfect images and clips!
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dan
11/16/2017 07:10:37 pm
I agree, Stock images make it so much easier to complete the work since its strictly on my schedule. The hardest part for me was looking at the main video that was going to be edited and realizing how badly done it was. No I need to set up another time to redo the video.
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