Vox Pops - Production Log

Luke Brazier

Lesson 1 Filming - Vox Popspreperation

• For this task I gathered four volunteers that were willing to answer a few questions in front of a camera.

• In preparation: • I wrote the questions out on a piece of paper so that I could read them to

the volunteer easily and not forget them. • I then gathered some of the draft advertisements in preparation for

filming. I had my own camera (canon 1200D) which I set up on a tripod to make filming easier for myself keeping the camera still during filming.

• I chose a quiet room, away from background noise to film in to avoid unwanted background noise and I began to answer my subjects my predetermined questions.

Lesson 2 Filming – Vox PopsDuring Filming

• I attempted to get all of the questions asked in one single take on my Vox Pops. I did this so that I didn’t have to get lots of different films and use them all as it would confuse me during editing.

• I asked all of the people the same questions in the same order and gave them time to answer with slight pauses between questions so that I would be able to edit later on.

• Even when there was a mistake in filming I carried on recording because I knew that I would be able to edit it out for example a long period where David laughed in his interview will have to be edited out but as I didn’t stop recording it will be a simple quick edit.

• All recordings were done in 1 take.

Laughing from: 1.27 – 3.24 will need to be edited.

Lesson One- Editing Initial Ideas and beginning editing…

1. In this lesson I was very new to the whole idea of editing videos and had no idea where to begin so the first hours or so I was just using trial and error to determine what works and how to do certain things within Adobe.

2. Once I had figured out what I could do I then began to upload the videos that I recorded and constructed a short intro using text and effects. I then put the video of David on the premier pro and cut a small section from the start of it using the razor tool, in my head I thought that this would be the opening to introduce him and say his age etc.

3. I added cross dissolve to the section between Davids video and the text so that the two shots would fade into one another smoothly avoiding a sharp cut in the editing.

Lesson One- Editing Initial Ideas and beginning editing…

4. Once I had a small cut down clip from David's interview I then took a screenshot of the page and cropped out an image of David that was stationary, I then went into Photoshop and saved this screen shot into a JPEG file which I imported into premier pro. I put the image into the sequence and added another effect (this time named iris diamond) so that the moving video would edit into a still shot of David and I could put his name and age in the bottom corner of the shot so it eventually looked like the lower image to the right. 5. I then had the idea to do this for all of the other video volunteers as well but I had run out of time in the lesson so I did it again in the next lesson for Jack, Melissa and Faisa.

In these images the iris effect is in action. These phots show what the effect looks like.

Lesson 2 – Editing • 6. I finished the intro in this lesson by adding all of the people into the video and

writing their names and ages onto the shot, I added effects to link all of the clips together and made the JPEG files in this lesson so that there were still shots of the people in my video.

• 7. I added music to my work by dragging and dropping a MP3 file into premier pro and much like any other piece of software, dragging and dropping it into place on my video, this was an easy task and from here I watched my intro through a few times before continuing on with the editing process and starting to get the questions into the video.

Lesson 2 – Editing • After adding music it was my opportunity to add some of the questions

into my vox pops, this was done by adding a title and dragging and dropping the text onto the video.

• The text was very easy to added, I chose the same font that I used for the age text at the bottom of the screen when the photos of the students pops up on film. This meant that I had the same font throughout the video.

• • - the font used throughout the video. Keeps consistency.

• I wasn’t able to get much done in this lesson and I only got one answer cut and put onto the video with transaction editing however I managed to get more responses afterwards at a later point.

Lesson 3 – Editing, adding questions and answers and audio manipulation

• Once I had some video footage on my vox pox I realised that I would have to alter the volume of the background music when people were talking and turn their voice up on the video. I did this by enabling the EQ on the volume and clicking points so that I could make the sound gradually decline and increase. This was an easy step and it just meant that I had to change the volume when people spoke which was very easy to do as I went along and edited the video.

• I added a few more questions using the text tool and dragged and dropped it into the video path, pressed enter to allow it to render the video and added transaction effects to make the video look better. This process is ongoing as there is a lot of cutting to do to get each answer.

Lesson 4 – Editing, showing which adverts were preferred

• For this I took some photos of the adverts that people chose within the Vox pox filming, I then added these images into Photoshop where I made them into JPEG form so that I could add them to my video in the same way I added the still images of the participants in my Vox pox.

• I then added text to the image on the vox pox after the adverts had been chosen more than once to tell the viewer how many times that the design had been chosen.

• This task took a while as it was quite complex.

Lesson 5 - finishing up• After the question about what advert do you prefer it was very easy to

continue editing as it was very much the same as before, I made the text shots with the title creator, wrote down the questions and then cut and dragged the answers into position adding dissolve transitions throughout.

• When I was finished I pressed enter to render the whole video and once it was done rendering I then exported it by clicking file, export and picking 1080p film to make it HD.

• I added the video to YouTube and then copied the embed link to my blog where it is now visible.

• The premier pro video looked liked this once I was finished…