Practice Story Reflection

Our latest project has been interviews, but before we started on the real thing we did practice interviews. For my partners and I practice interview we did "Maya loves Books". For this project we watched many different types of interviews and learned what to do and what not to do. First off we had to come up with a story, "Maya loves Books", we then needed to plan out questions, what kind of B-roll we needed, what was our intro going to be, where would our transitions go, and what would the right sequencing be. When got all of that done we needed to start filming. Filming was the easiest out of everything. We got shots of books, Maya reading, and the actual interview.

After the filming we needed to edit. And like I said, filming was the easiest. We were actually one of the first teams to turn in our project, but that doesn't mean we didn't have difficulties or disagree on anything. We had some arguments of what should go where, if we should have cut out certain parts or what we could have added. In the end we came out with a not perfect video, but something a video we were happy with. We should have added some more B-roll and and made our cuts smoother, but we did only have about two or three days to film and edit.

At least now we know what mistakes we aren't going to make again. Chazz, Maya and I know that we can can make a better interview than our practice. With the help of our classmates we did a critique and now know what to improve on. We just need to remember we shouldn't be stressed. We need to stay focussed and do our best.