A New Kind of Medium: Finding Stuff to Do on Campus

It’s not every day you get to go out and stick a camera in people’s faces, but I was lucky enough to interview people who wanted to be on video. This video gave me a chance to become more comfortable in front of a camera and a little more comfortable with myself. My video was about Campus Life in relation to clubs and activities. The main question that I asked was, “What is there to do on campus?” because, let’s face it, there’s a lot to do and we may not be aware of everything that’s going on. My other question was “how do we find it?” because if we know about something, we’d want to know where it is, and more information about it. As far as managing my time, I think I did a pretty okay job.  I spent a couple of days filming, and then a day or so editing it all together. Windows Movie Maker doesn't allow you much creativity and flexibility, as say iMovie or Final Cut Pro does. The overall quality, I feel is pretty good for a first video, you can’t expect perfection and high quality from someone who’s never made a video in their life before. I have to say, it seemed very overwhelming at first because I didn't know what I was doing. Once I started, it became easier. Achieving the goal of making this video informative was reached, I learned where to go to find all the information needed on clubs and activities, and hearing other’s input really helped broaden what there is to do on campus. I could’ve done more to make it entertaining, it was somewhat difficult to add entertainment into this video because my topic isn't exactly, entertaining. Being technologically polished, my video is almost there. Depending on how you did your interviews (with a camera, phone, webcam, etc), your video is going to look very different and have different qualities. It was hard deciding what to keep and what not to. There was a lot of good information that I received, and it took time to really decide what I should keep and what not to. What I decided to do was edit all the interviews that I had together first, and then decide how I would film myself in there. It ended up where I was at the end of the video only, and to introduce, I had a title with some text. I think it worked out well. Everyone had a lot to say, and it was generally the same response, there is so much stuff available to do and it’s easy to find it. All you have to do is look.