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What: The finished video I promoted in a previous post. I shot it Monday night, edited it Wednesday and Thursday morning and posted it Thursday afternoon.
Why so slow: Partly, this was because the video pairs with a story in the Spokesman-Review’s 7 section (read it here), and I didn’t want be finished too far in advance. But this also proved a more complicated edit for me. I had shot a lot of b roll — part inexperience, part justified assumption that bad lighting would make some of it unusable. Scrubbing through the footage took time, and so did forming my narrative and sequencing my shots around it.
What worked: More variety of wide, medium, and medium-tight shots in this second effort. Fun subject matter. Incorporation of natural sound to help form the narrative.
Gained wisdom: Interview more people than you think you will need; I really wished I had talked to the third competitor. Film my talking heads even tighter. Beware (again!) of echoes; it probably would have been better to interview my subjects outside. Turn tight shots into super-tight shots. In low-light situations, my little Sony doesn’t quite cut it.
Yeah, I did wonder about that third competitor. And who was the character in the goofy wig? Man, there was a lot to keep track of!
Posted by R Zahler on February 23rd, 2008.