Monday, October 30, 2017

Vid #1: Some Examples From The Past




Michael D.: Overall a nice job, but for B-roll we were stuck on doing just medium shots; we could have used some tight shots as well (fingers strumming the guitar strings, fingers typing on the keyboard, eyes glancing at the laptop screen) to mix in and show different perspectives.

Tony B.: A strong mix of tight, medium, establishing and re-reestablishing A-roll (interview subject and main action) and B-roll shots here. Note how the first head shot doesn't follow the rule of thirds but the second does; doesn't the latter look better? There is also natural sound the compliments but doesn't overwhelm the interview subject's voice.


Allia McD.: Strong variety of B-roll in terms of content and medium/tight shots. But we don't need to have the source saying their title as the caption already IDs the persons' titles for us. To do both is redundant, and using the caption lets us save story audio time for substance and not identification.


Alan W.: Don't be too fast with B-roll snippets. The first one comes and goes so quickly the viewer barely has any time to absorb the content. Give a shot three or four seconds, at least, before you move on.


Kayleigh R.: Once again, a nice range of B-roll showing many of the different things people are talking about, as they talk about them. That's what B-roll is for, showing people while the subject is telling people about what they're seeing.


Yujin O.: Here, we open with B-roll, which is kind of a video version of an anecdotal or alternate lede. That's fine. The shooting, editing, B-roll and sound bytes are all solid and well-organized here.


Mary S.: Lots to like here, but sound could be better. Really watch for spaces with echoes or distracting background noise, and avoid those areas. Use interview areas where sounds are unobstructed and clear.


Honda C.: We see some wide shots here, which are fine. Again, a good mix of head shots and B-roll.


Ben C.: More great examples of B-roll and wide/medium/tight shots (with probably more wide shots that many previous examples, which is okay).


Austin G.: Nice mix of still shots and video for B-roll here. Nice framing of interview subjects using the rule of thirds.

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