chase dfraser

      The Scope of the project was that we were to make a chase scene that was within 1 minute. The  process going from Pre-production all the way to Uploading the video is a long but not so complicated process. It started with me and my partner storyboarding and coming up with ideas on how to make the video neat, like the rolling shot with a chair around 0:08 in my video. Then actually putting the thoughts and storyboarding into to action and filming, which took some help from others and more time than one would think! Then going back to upload and edit the video, which takes a lot of focus and time. During Editing you I learned that you can cut the shots down to follow a rule "enter late,leave early" which helps shorten, and make the video flow. After editing and getting the shots set where they flowed and followed the story next thing was to pick out music that would go good with the video, and if you search "chase sequence music" its not that easy to find a song as I learned.  Along the way I found Collaboration and Teamwork are very important when doing projects such as this. In the end once its all edited and music set in, it was saved to the computer and then off to youtube. When uploading the video to youtube you select the film and let youtube do the rest.

     What I learned along the way is its not that hard to do something as simple as this which the video only lasted 40 seconds, but I now know more about editing and making clips flow, and having them follow the "enter late, leave early"rule. What would I do differently? Well if I could I would like to have more time to get all the shots in one day, have some dialogue maybe, find something more interesting to have stolen, and have better wardrobe than just normal clothes for the effect of how me and my partner storyboarded this. What I would do the same is everything, I mean besides the music, I'd definitely change that if I could've thought of/ or found a better song.

      The Experiences I will draw from to enhance this project are things like the rolling shot in the chair, I had a moment of failure when we tried to have someone pull me the first take and I nearly fell out of the chair! So be ready for that and not have to do two takes, definitely get some close-ups like on the facial expression(s) as someone is running, or of their feet. My General thoughts on this are that it is definitely a fun project, and I'd do it again if I could make a longer video, also those students coming into E-comm in the future are gonna love this project!

     Conclusions on this, like I said I would do it again, and I would definitely make a longer video if I had the time. That is because how fun the project was. Clearly though for the movies they have more time, makeup and wardrobe, lighting and all that professional stuff; but for a beginner to video production type stuff it isn't that necessary because your beginning works are going to help show improvement with your future videos. There are going to be moments of failing and moments of succeeding but thats all of the learning process. In conclusion though I enjoyed the project and can say it was my favorite filming project I have done yet!