The six-word story project was really fun! I enjoyed this as our first project of the semester. I liked all the freedom it gave me and I also had fun filming! My six-word story was, "I’d rather be at the beach." I came up with this, along with other beach related ideas, a couple of weeks ago. It was a few days before Spring Break was going to start and getting to go to the beach soon was practically all I could think about. As I was thinking about the beach, a bunch of really cool shot ideas came to mind as well. I decided to take some time in Florida to film a few scenes, along with the two I had previously filmed in class already. My first shot was a high angled wide shot of me doing my work on the computer. I was trying to recreate a sense of how I was acting those few days leading up to Spring break. I made it a high angle shot so it made me look smaller, less important. I wanted it to look less important because I was in St. Louis, and the point of my video was to show that I didn’t want to be there. Then I had a transition fade into my next shot, this one was a canted, low angle, extreme wide shot. Canted angles are meant to disturb the image, which is exactly why I went for one. I feel like the canted helped set more of a divide between the difference going from reality to my dream. My next shot was a medium shot of my friends and I getting smoothies by the beach. It was a perfect opportunity to get some great clips because the water was bright blue that day and the smoothies gave it a cool vibe. The fourth shot I had was an eye level shot of my feet in the sand with waves rolling up. I had gotten the ocean, the palm trees, and I felt I needed the sand to complete the beach feel. After getting those three aspects of the beach. I went with an extreme wide shot of the sunset on the beach. It was a good closing and included the different aspects I wanted to have representing the beach as it closed up my dream. This was my favorite shot of the six because it was a timelapse. I had the idea and went over it with Mr. Goble, who gave me some great tips that were very useful for when I went to film on my own. I had some trouble finding out how to keep the camera still during the sunset, but I made a makeshift tripod that worked surprisingly well! Ending my Six Word Story was a tight shot of my face. I had the bell ringing as I woke up from my daydream. I think one of my first drafts of my storyboard for this had my four beach videos in a different order, but I made a new one and I feel as if it makes so much more sense now. Editing was pretty easy, although when it came to finding audio it was a bit of a challenge. I wish there could have been an easier way to find more free music. Overall, I really enjoyed this project and thought it was a great way to prepare us for more videos to come! If you would like to watch my Six Word tory, click here to go to my Videos page to check it out. Enjoy!!
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3/28/2019 06:02:11 am
This video is really cute and funny. I like how you start at school and start thinking about the beach. Then at the end when you are at school the bell rings and you snap out of it.
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Ginger Schulte
3/28/2019 04:02:42 pm
I loved your video! Its super cool that you started at school then shot at the beach like it was your dream. Also the bell at the end was a super nice touch!
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Riley Oneal
3/29/2019 07:20:58 am
I really liked this video. The shots were all very unique and different. Why did you choose to not have any sound in the beginning of the video though?
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