For this blog entry, you will watch Law's MSGVarsity submissions from last year and critique them based on our in-class discussions about interviewing, framing, and editing. You can comments on the videos as a whole or on specific videos that you watch.Go to http://www.msgvarsity.com/ and go to the Jonathan Law page. Watch videos marked "SCHOOL VIDEO" and write a 250-word response which discusses the overall strengths and weaknesses of the videos. What do you like about the video(s) you watched? What did you dislike? What did the group do well in the production of the video? What could they improve on?
Response due: Monday, October 8th by 5 p.m.
From Trevor
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Throughout all the Jonathan Law Sport
Interviews on MSG Varsity, the majority of them all reached the expectations of an acceptable interview. With the acceptation of one or two, all the videos were clear and to the point. In the first video that I viewed which was the gymnastics interview with Candler, pretty much all the criteria for a great interview was met. There was an opening establishing shot, which led to a medium shot of Chandler being interviewed. The rule of thirds was used properly, there was good lead room, and Chandler's answers were clear and to the point. Also a key factor to the successes of this interview was that her B role was quieter than her voice. The next interview which was with Zack, was a bit weaker than Chandler's. The rule of thirds was used properly, yet there was no B role noise making it seem really awkward and there wasn't much lead room is some of the plays. Especially the closing scene with Zack going for a layup. The interview with Kyle was another good one. Once again the rule of thirds was used properly,there was good head room, and the nose room during the interview was great. Although, he did not state his position, and the B role was from a practice. The girls basketball interview was really weak. I'm not sure if it was due to the amount of girls, but the rule of thirds was not used well at all, and the zooming in randomly during the interview just confused me. Why do that? Also you couldn't hear a word the Phoebe was saying throughout the whole video, and during the B role the player's head were cut off and the shots were cut off at times. Finally the last interview that I watched was the Boys Swimming film, with Lonny and Mrs.P. The opening was weak because if you didn't go to the school you wouldn't know who the boy was, because he didn't state his name. Then he also didn't state which event he swam. So maybe the view just thought he swam all of them. Yet over in the interview the rule of thirds was used correctly, there was proper head room, and the answers were clear and too the point.
trevor doesnt know how to spell my name ! :(
ReplyDeleteAfter reviewing all the interviews, previews and games posted on MSGVarsity.com, I have concluded that as a whole the productions were done very professionally. In many cases when watching these videos I found it hard to believe they were student produced.
ReplyDeleteIn almost all cases the B roll matched up with the speaker and did not over power and drown out the interview. However in the video with Zack Soulier for basketball there was no B-roll back ground noise, leaving the interview to seem and sound a tad awkward. Therefore to make a good interview encorporating both the B-roll and interview its important to find a happy medium where you can depict both yet making the voice more prominent.
I found in the kyle Wiggins interview as well as the one with myself the filmer placed the shot very well with both of us off to the side (disterbance). In the gymnastics video in doing so this allowed for the audience to view the action behind me, the environment and made it look more professsional i thought.
Overall i found that all the videos were put together very well and all had great combinations of B roll and interviews. Even the video including the artist was able to demonstaright what exactly the story was about first hand and by example rather than just talking. This engages the viewer and is a necessity when filming.
After watching a few of the videos, there were many different things that I gathered. For the most part, the videos were shot at the correct angles and all of them looked crystal clear thanks to the cameras provided. The bulk of the videos were all short, sweet, and to the point. All of the B-Role footage fit in pretty well with what the person being interviewed was saying but there were a few occasions where you couldn't quite make out what was said because of how high the B-Role's volume was turned up. There were a few occasions where the person being interviewed looked uncomfortable and would tend to look all over the place and not at the person interviewing them. When you interview someone who does a sport, it's good to hear what they have to say as opposed to someone who doesn't participate in the sport because you can see first hand what goes on. Some of the videos were shot in areas that didn't quite look like they illustrated exactly what the person does. The video about the artist was very cool because it was shot in the art room and the people watching go to see one of the pieces of art that this person had created.
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