- Aside from the editing, everyone in the group pretty much shared all of the roles in the film. Aiden and I took care of a lot of the interview process(filming, audio, interviewing), but the other members each did a couple of the shorter interviews. I did the planning and directing, as well as the interview contacting and most of the editing aside from audio sinking, which Owen took care of.
- The pre-production basically consisted of coming up with a topic, writing down some questions to ask the people being interviewed, and then contacting experts on the subject to ask if they wouldn’t mind being interviewed. I contacted New Media professors and TAs. We ended up interviewing all of them that I contacted as well as a few New Media students and non-major students. I really wanted to learn what people at all three of these levels thought about the meaning of New Media. As kind of a side subject of the documentary, I wanted to explore the possible disconnect between student and professor, and if there was one, why? For B-roll footage, I took the camera to my different New Media classes and asked if everyone was okay with being filmed and then just took film of people doing New Media related things. There’s also some of us just fooling around a bit and a lot of the IMRC, but very little of that I put into the final cut.
- Editing this project was a fairly easy process with no real reshoots. This is because I had over an hour of film to work with. To begin with, I took out all the unnecessary bits like interviewer questioning and vocal pauses. I then split of them saying their names to use in the credits later. I then split the video into topic points such as New Media definitions and experiences and so on. Since people had a lot to say about the definition of new media I also split that into three sections. First is a one to many dynamic, then emerging technologies, and finally specific skills such as software and editing. There wasn’t much change from draft to final draft except for the addition of name tags for people being interviewed at the request of Arturo.
- I think the film accomplished what we intended it to. We gave many interpretations of the definition and I think showed pretty well that there isn’t one set in stone definition to New Media. We has crisp picture and audio, save for a few scenes where the microphone was misbehaving. It was intentional to not have a narrator, because I believe it’s more resonating to have the experts lead the story than me or anyone else on the team, and I think in doing so, effectively communicated the themes and ideas that we set out to tackle.
- If Im being completely 100% honest, I need to trust my team more. I have this weird process where I want things to be as perfect as possible and I don’t trust anyone but myself to do so. Unsurprisingly, everyone on my team did really good work on this project and I need to do a better job at trusting people to carry out the vision. So thats how I can improve my own experience. As for the assignment itself, I feel like we should have gone over what makes good B-role, because its extremely hard to film interesting and relevant B-role footage and I think we didn’t touch on it enough.
NMD 106
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