Tutorial Four and Five (Video Production Sessions)

1 - 3. Over the past two weeks we have been looking at planning and producing our very own videos. We were to base these short 30 second films on “Overcoming Adversity”. We began by discussing some basic film production skills before creating a story board and script and becoming familiar with ways to use a video camera effectively. We then shot the video which portrays a young wheel chair user who encounters some difficulty with accessing a walkway within the polytech grounds. She finds her own way to overcome this issue and is able to join her friends and head to class.

Our group had a lot of fun shooting this, however we encountered some difficulties during the editing process as the editing application was not available for our use. This film can be viewed through the YouTube link below…….enjoy!

4. YouTube first began as a personal video sharing service and has now developed into “the world's most popular online video community”. It allows millions of users all over the globe to watch and share videos. Just a few examples of what YouTube offers to its users are: up-to-date current events, educational videos, entertainment such as favourite TV moments, hobbies and interests. The YouTube community determine what is popular on the site and can express their opinion via comment sections.

A Brief History of Youtube



5. Planning the storyboard and writing a script enabled our group to be better prepared and more efficient during filming. We all understood our responsibilities and what our characters were required to do within the film. The story board enabled us to see an end product before we’d even begun filming.

Youtube.com. (2010) Youtube fact sheet. Retrieved April 04, 2010, from http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet

Overcoming Adversity!



Reaching new heights!!!
Speaking of overcomming adversity, check these pictures out! A summer occupation that my cousins and I enjoy is a little something we like to call biscuit launching.