I created the video below as a Junior at Lincoln Lutheran High School. As part of a Video Editing class offered at Lincoln Lutheran, I have had the opportunity to film and edit a piece of my choice! Personally, I decided to take this particular video the direction that I did for a couple of reasons. For one, before going into this project, I knew that I wanted to choose a unique topic. Not very many people know of and participate in frisbee golf, so this was a major deciding factor when it came time for choosing a topic. Secondly, I chose this topic because I wanted to create a video with my brother, Logan Holle. Logan truly enjoys playing disc golf, so I wanted to capture a subject that was significant in his life. Lastly, I chose this topic and presented it in an informative manner (with an interview) to allow others to not only know more about this uncommon sport, but encourage them to participate in similar activities with others!
Secondly, there are couple of distinct instances within this video that I am proud of. Personally, I really enjoy the overall sound of this piece. I believe that the background music, voice overs, and ambient sound all work very well together. Additionally, I also enjoy the interview that I included with my brother.
While he was speaking, I had corresponding short video clips and images to visualize what he was speaking on. I believe that this truly added to the overall video! Lastly, there is one particular clip that I am the most proud of. I strongly like the clip in which the camera was placed under the frisbee golfing cage, and it captured the underneath view of the disc going in! This point of video was very unique and different!
Many parts of this video also held challenges that needed to be worked through. For one, it was difficult to find a clear ending for my video. In the video below, I showed Logan playing disc golf first, and then followed it up with a short interview. It was challenging to find a clip from the interview that would wrap up the video well, so I decided to go back and film a couple of extra scenes. Through this conflict, I was able to learn the importance of going back through the film that you have captured when you are shooting (to ensure that you have all of the needed clips in the first place). Likewise, I learned that oftentimes pick-up shots can be made and incorporated into the video nicely. Secondly, another conflict that I came upon was the ambient sound. In many of the clips there were great opportunities for ambient sound, but oftentimes outside noises or the wind interrupted hearing them clearly. Therefore, I learned that sometimes we must be creative with the audio in each clip, and be willing to use the sound from a separate shot for another scene.
In all, if I were able to do this project again, there are a couple of things that I would do differently (and spend extra time on). As mentioned earlier, if given the opportunity to go back to the day that we filmed this project, I would have gathered a couple of additional closing shots so that I wouldn’t have had to gather pick-up shots. I feel that this would have made my video more consistent, but I am not disappointed with the outcome. Secondly, if I were to approach this project over again, I feel that I would have spent additional time on experimenting with the order of my clips. I had already created a storyboard for this video, but after viewing my clips, I was unsure whether I should keep the interview and video clips separate or not. I decided to keep them separate in the video below, but spending a little bit of time experimenting with them intertwined would have been a unique experience as well. In the end, though, I am very pleased with the outcome!
