Reflection of Video Project

As a collaborative effort, my and Christina's goal was to simply to tell a comical story about what it is like to be new student at Hunter College specifically on the first day of classes. My vision was to produce something that my audience can relate to even if they don't attend Hunter College. I remember what it was like for me on my first day/ first week at Hunter. I was confused by the multiple buildings that were connected to each other by a bridge which had escalators and elevators leading to even more floors. It was a bit frustrating especially if I was running late for class and having trouble to find what building I should be in to begin with (HN,HE,HW, OR TH) then the correct floor, and finally the right class. In the end, we wanted it to be funny at the character's expense that after all the trouble she went through to find her class, the class was cancelled and we all can relate to that!

Our technical goal was not to have any dialogue and to let the narration speak for itself. Christina was the main cinematographer since I was the subject, but in between shots, we dicussed with one another what shots should follow and retaken while using our storyboard as a guide. When Christina and I first began editing,we had a lot of footage to work with and it was a bit intimidating considering how long the final product was expected to be, but we did our best. Christina also did a great job finding music that suited the mood as the story developed well.

In the post production process, I don't think that there were developments that changed the final product because we already knew from the story boarding to the actual filming, how we want to begin, develop, and end. We didn't receive much feedback from our peers, but the few who did comment enjoyed it. I suppose I didn't get as much of a reaction from my peers as I wanted to, but in all I believe our film did what we intended it to do and it was successful. If I had to did all over again, I would've asked someone to be the subject of our film so that I could do more camera work.

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