Making video asssessment1

ALM201#

This is my first assignment for making videos, recording videos about myself. Before recording this video, I was very confused about what subject I wanted to shoot. Finally, I decided to shoot my hobby, Play LEGO and I liked collect them, because I wanted to share my hobby with my classmates and teachers. In the video, I told about my hobbies, such as travel, photos, playing Lego and cooking, as well as my career ideal. I want to be an advertising designer and meet advertisements everywhere in my life. I want to design meaningful and interesting advertisements, and this is a highly paid career.

My plan is to introduce myself and add a video of building Lego. It would be too monotonous if all of them were presented in the form of speeches.It takes about 15 hours to complete it. I plan to shoot only the upper body because I can’t see it under the table. I set the scene in my living room, because the living room has a large space and needs a clean wall as the background. If the things behind me are too messy, it will make the picture uncluttered. My composition is centered on me, then flat-shot, put a tripod on the table, find the right angle to start shooting. Delayed shooting is used in the shooting of Lego, because Lego is a complex and long process, which is a 1-2 minute short video, and I can only show it as much as possible. Recording audio is a difficult step. I need to wait until it’s quiet to record it, and it needs to match the mouthshape of my voice in the video. Background music I chose a lively and lively one to make the atmosphere natural and interesting.

I thought it was a simple assignment, but when I started recording, I found many difficulties. When choosing the theme, I have two ideas. One is to record cooking, the other is to record and build Lego. I did not choose cooking because I could not watch the camera most of the time during the recording process. Choosing the Lego theme can shoot my face. The biggest dilemma in the recording process is that I dare not look directly at the camera. It will be embarrassing and shy. It’s my biggest challenge, and I get nervous when I record videos and stop speaking English. So I chose to use tripod to help shoot. Choosing a tripod can not only replace embarrassment, but also record clear pictures, which makes the camera more stable. If someone else helped me record it, it would be more difficult. I also had to overcome the psychological difficulties as much as possible. Secondly, the lighting problem, because at home shooting, the light will be dim, need to try different positions and angles to shoot. Audio is also my focus, because I live near the road, the sound of vehicles and road maintenance make the video sound noisy, so I choose to turn off the original video sound, and record the audio in the final production clip. It takes a long time to build a complete Lego model, so I used time-lapse photography to show more.