My favorite project this semester was the final video project, I think this was a very interesting project because I had no prior experience using Adobe Premiere. I really liked learning about all of the various tools and it was awesome to watch YouTube tutorials and seeing everything that could be done with the program. I think that this course is invaluable to communications majors because at just about any entry level job you will probably be required to be familiar with at least one of these programs.

            In the future I plan on being a mix of public relations and crisis management personnel, I think a lot of the rhetorical decisions in the design process of these projects was extremely important to my future job prospects. I really think that nearly any job you take in the communications world will require you to do at least something with Adobe Photoshop. Just about every company requires advertisements made using similar programs and other creative jobs.

            I wish that I would have learned a little bit more about the various tools and things you can do in Adobe Premier. There are some very neat tools that can put your videos over the top that I was only aware of because of various YouTube tutorials. I think that this class could go more in depth in terms of the content of Adobe Premiere in the class tutorials.

            As I mentioned before, many YouTube tutorials helped in my endeavors with Adobe Premiere. I think the best ones were “premiere in a minute”, these videos showed you one specific thing you could do with the tools in Premiere and there were videos on just about everything you could need. I also liked the in class tutorials because of how easy to follow they were.

            Even though I am not a journalism/broadcast or a marketing major I think that this class in invaluable to students in today’s tech-oriented world. My COM 100 professor mentioned that this was the most sought after class employers search for when they contact WSU and the Murrow college of communication. It was one of the classes that I was very excited to take and I think it is one of the classes that I have learned the most from. Thank you for following my blog all semester and thank you for everything you have helped us learn.

In my final design I was able to maintain the integrity of my video. I kept a majority of it the same with only some changes coming to the beginning and ending of my video. I used music from bensound.com for both the intro and the outro of my video. I began the design by filming three similar shots while asking my subject some questions about his fantasy football team. These helped to keep my video simple because I was able to get the complete answers in single film strips. I then edited them together and placed in some transitions between them. I used the audio from the videos but chose to carry it over separately so that I could extend the beginning and the ending of the audio to fade into the credits scene.

I also thought that a beginning intro scene would be good for the video, instead of jumping right in to the interview. I chose to incorporate my logo marking the 100^th NFL season from our initial Photoshop unit as my introduction scene. I then added music over this and my credits scene which both fade out when the video interview begins and the video ends.

I used a popular YouTube channel to help with some of the things I needed to accomplish. The channel is “Premiere in under a minute”. They post videos of how to make videos or images much better by using simple Premiere tools and tricks. I used a couple of their videos for refreshers instead of going all the way back to the tutorial.All in all, I added some much needed title scenes into my video, some intro music and exiting music to keep the video from being bland, and some additional transitions. I finally tried to refine my audio by lowering the volume of the music and increasing the volume of the interview, as it was a little hard to hear. I think these few things helped my video tremendously.

For the Unit four video project I decided what better way to incorporate my blog idea into a video than by interviewing someone who has recently seen a drastic change in their fandom. I interviewed one of my friends named Griffin Davis who very recently has begun playing fantasy football. This was his first season participating and he joined our league which has been rather intense in terms of fantasy football, the two years prior. I really enjoyed the one on one interview format that we see so often because it really mimicked some of the popular sports shows that we see on television. My design process was relatively simple, the hardest part was deciding what to base my video on. I went in depth to research and find questions that would generate a significant response from my subject, I did a majority of my research at NFL.com and ESPN.com. I began by drafting questions that I knew would collectively make an outline for a story I wanted to tell. Then drew up my storyboard and placed the questions strategically to develop as the video went on. I then sat down with Davis and conducted the interview, trying to keep each question in a single film strand. He was very receptive to the questions and answered them well. I then went through and decided to incorporate the little portion about his agreement with his future roommates to add another angle to my story. I went through and rearranged my storyboard and added the final segment. I then got to editing and simply placed the clips in the order I wanted them in. By strategically filming it ended up being a lot less work when I reached the editing portion of this project. I then added a final title to thank Davis and put my name on the project and summed it up with some transitions between the clips and a dip to black at the end of the final clip. I really liked being able to move the video and audio separately because it allowed me to cut out some words while still maintaining the integrity of the original video clips I recorded. My biggest problem was getting the clips to export from my filming device and render properly in Adobe Premiere. I was able to eventually get them to transfer without losing resolution through a wired connection. I think that the project ended up turning out pretty well for an interview. I was unable to add all of the bells and whistles we have been provided with based on the medium of video I chose to present my story in.

For the Unit four video project I decided what better way to incorporate my blog idea into a video than by interviewing someone who has recently seen a drastic change in their fandom. I interviewed one of my friends named Griffin Davis who very recently has begun playing fantasy football. This was his first season participating and he joined our league which has been rather intense in terms of fantasy football, the two years prior. I really enjoyed the one on one interview format that we see so often because it really mimicked some of the popular sports shows that we see on television. My design process was relatively simple, the hardest part was deciding what to base my video on. I went in depth to research and find questions that would generate a significant response from my subject, I did a majority of my research at NFL.com and ESPN.com. I began by drafting questions that I knew would collectively make an outline for a story I wanted to tell. Then drew up my storyboard and placed the questions strategically to develop as the video went on. I then sat down with Davis and conducted the interview, trying to keep each question in a single film strand. He was very receptive to the questions and answered them well. I then went through and decided to incorporate the little portion about his agreement with his future roommates to add another angle to my story. I went through and rearranged my storyboard and added the final segment. I then got to editing and simply placed the clips in the order I wanted them in. By strategically filming it ended up being a lot less work when I reached the editing portion of this project. I then added a final title to thank Davis and put my name on the project and summed it up with some transitions between the clips and a dip to black at the end of the final clip. I really liked being able to move the video and audio separately because it allowed me to cut out some words while still maintaining the integrity of the original video clips I recorded. My biggest problem was getting the clips to export from my filming device and render properly in Adobe Premiere. I was able to eventually get them to transfer without losing resolution through a wired connection. I think that the project ended up turning out pretty well for an interview. I was unable to add all of the bells and whistles we have been provided with based on the medium of video I chose to present my story in.

Ben Harasek

Storyboard

Com 210

November 22, 2019

Overall visual shot: I will be conducting an interview with Griffin Davis, he will be sitting on a couch, I want to incorporate a laid back interview type of shot. He will simply be answering questions to the camera so that it has the format I want.

Fade in music

First Clip:

            Content: I will begin my video with an intro by the person I am interviewing about what he enjoys about fantasy football.

Dissolve Transition

Second Clip:

            I will ask him “what made you initially get into fantasy football?” he has a unique story.

Dissolve transition

Third Clip:

            I will ask “How has playing fantasy football helped you understand the fundamentals of the game?”.

Dissolve transition

Fourth Clip:

            I will ask “Will you continue your newfound hobby in the future?”.

Dip to black transition and fade out music with a thanks to Griffin Davis.

Throughout my entire video I want to keep the same shot and I do not plan on changing angles, it will be from the upper right so that it seems somewhat professional, I will incorporate interview questions and quotes from my interview.

I began the process of creating by coming up with questions to ask Pray as I was set on interviewing him for my final project. I let him see the questions so that he was not caught off guard by them and then I was able to go through and record each question individually so that I could edit them separately and then put them together into the larger interview. I was unable to get a second interview with Pray as he was gearing up for the upcoming sporting events. I tried to refine the audio some and make it clearer with little luck. I then went through and edited out any of the “ums” or “uhhs” that did not make the interview seem natural or flow well. I did leave some natural pauses and spaces in the interview because I did not want to completely take away the natural components of it. I then went in and found some additional music to use in the beginning and ending of my interview. The music I used I felt fit into the genre of podcast or interview I was doing and I found it at www.bensound.com. I was able to choose from a large selection of music and I was able to find an appropriate one that I felt fit my podcast. I then went through and took out a majority of the song and used only the first 10 seconds and the last 10 seconds. I took these two portions and placed them at either end of my interview. I then faded the beginning one in and the allowed it to play straight into my interview with a momentary pause before the introduction. I then faded the second one out and left a bit of a pause as Pray finished speaking. I think these little changes helped a lot but I do wish I could have gotten better quality recordings.

For this project I interviewed Tyler Pray, a graphic design intern for social services and the Washington State University Athletics Department. He designs images that get posted to social media accounts and allows followers and fans to be immersed into the games, awards, and programs that the athletic department puts on. This relates to my topic because it has anything and everything to do with sports, a side that not many people acknowledge or see, it is the people behind the curtain. Pray was my main source of information and in the interview he explains how his role impacts the athletics that we see reminders of every day on campus and on social media. My design process included sculpting questions that allowed Pray to give an listeners an understanding of how his work is used. The process then allowed him to see the questions and develop a response to them, finally I was able to simply compile them, recorded individually, into an order that reflected the flow of the information and that sounded appeasing. In abode software I was able to change the volume of the speaking and edit out parts of questions that either did not sound good or had too many stutters. I also edited out answers that included too many uses of the words “umm” or “uh” so that it would allow the interview to sound more seamless and complete. I had some trouble getting certain parts of the interview separate from others as they were recorded in large chunks and they had to be moved around quite a bit. I had to splice the recordings and move them from question to question to provide a more full and lively interview for listeners. The razor selection tool became my best friend as I edited through the clips of audio to try and phase out as many imperfections as I could. The time selection tool was also very useful to place audio exactly where I wanted it, I was also able to implement pauses where they seemed like they needed to be. I would like to give a special thanks to Tyler Pray and the Washington State University Athletics Department for a great interview and a plethora of knowledge to help see into the men and women doing the backstage lifting.

I sat down with Tyler Pray, he is one of the graphic design interns for Washington State University Athletics. We discussed how his role impacts the fans and the athletics social media accounts.

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