Day 5

Today, I collected some shots of Ms. Sherry talking about PATH, how Cleo affects the students in PATH, Cleo's training, and how she is a part of the York community. These shots were in different places to change up the scenery a little bit so that it's not just in a boring chair (I chose two locations in her office) I also collected two additional short clips of her certificate and York ID.

I am (probably) officially done with collecting clips. I am going to start my editing process now. I have to find good background royalty free music that isn't too distracting, and that is going to be the most challenging part of the project because I can edit fairly quickly (I have made multiple videos before and found that I can edit videos quickly).

I have decided that the final project will be more of an explanation of who Cleo is and what she does (a more serious production), rather than a more comical "day in the life" video.

Day 4

I feel like I have achieved nothing in the past few days because I have collected a lot of footage, but I'm not sure how to use it. I was pretty sure I wanted to make a 'day in the life' video of Cleo, but with the footage I have, it's really hard to get in a lot of the things that she does every day. I realized that most of the time, she kind of just sits in Ms. Sherry's office. If I were to do a 'day in the life' video, I wouldn't be able to use a lot of the footage that I collected. I might end up making a little video montage with some background music. I'm really not sure what I want to do.

I was going to have Ms. Sherry do voice-overs, but I might end up having her narrate the whole thing and then have some shots with only her face (like an interview). It might end up being a more professionally set up video, like a documentary.

I guess my next step in this process is to find some music. I can either do that, or contact another music maker/composer for permission to use their music. As this project is falling to it's pitfall, I feel the need to save it from its misery.

Another thing I'm planning to do is to find someone that has had their life changed by Cleo.

Instead of making one final video, I might end up publishing this one early just to get it over with, then start up my own public Youtube channel.

Day 3

During Christmas, I got my own Canon 1100D (Rebel T3), which is an entry level DSLR. It has both auto and manual focus, which solves my main problem. Quality wise, even though the video is the "medium HD" quality level of the Fujifilm x10, it looks as though it were the "high HD" quality. It is in HD (720). Over the break, I tested out the camera in different light settings, both light and dark. I am extremely happy with the quality and compatibility. I hope there won't be an issue needing to use different lenses, but if I ever need to, I can use my mom's lenses, but I don't think that will be necessary, because my lens is 18-55mm, which is quite versatile for this project.

Today, during the shoot, I re-shot the office shots, and they turned out much better than the ones I had shot because I could transition slowly in focus. Overall, today's shot was quite productive.

I learned to take multiple takes on everything just in case one of them didn't turn out right.

For the near future, I am planning to start editing and finding free, royalty music to put in the background of some of the shots. I also have to start writing my voice-overs for Cleo, which will be voiced by Ms. Sherry.