1. This author used a lot of different video transitions. I felt this was a good choice as it gave the video a more professional feel. It also makes me think that a lot of thought and effort was put into this video. I liked how she used interviews to tell her story. It gave the video a more rounded opinion than just herself bragging about her accomplishments. I did not like how the parents’ footage was not synced with their voices. I don’t think the Skype techniques worked very well. I also felt the video was too long for the subject matter. I felt myself tuning out about the middle of the video.
2. I enjoyed how she used the film reel animation. It gave her video a style and a bit of a spark. I also liked her transitions between book covers. I did not like how she did not redo her narrative to make sure there were limited mistakes. She stops and starts too many times and it becomes a distraction to the audience. It also feels like she did not put in a lot of effort and threw this together quickly. I also felt she should have found better pictures for the book covers. They were extremely blurry and there were times I could not decipher what I was supposed to be looking at.
3. I liked the idea that this video felt off the cuff and spontaneous. The story he told and the way he was animated in his body language was successful in keeping my attention. However, it felt almost too rough. It didn’t feel like there was a whole lot of effort behind this video. Perhaps if the author had added some video effects or some kind of text to highlight the important or significant parts of the man’s story.
4. I liked how he included scenes of his bad texting behavior. I especially liked how he included his D paper which was marked down for all the bad grammar. It gave the story a more personal touch. I felt the close ups of the phone did not work. It was too blurry and shaking to really be beneficial to the rest of the video. You couldn’t read what he was typing and so I felt there was no point to the clip. I liked the idea of the music but I felt it was the wrong tone of music. It ended up having this hard guitar rift that I felt didn’t follow the theme of the video.
5. I rather liked the simplistic style of this video. It was easy to follow and I felt the music added a bit of flavor to the narrative. Personally I usually like voiceovers to go with subtitles, but for this video it worked without a voice. He kept with the simple theme and it worked well. The main thing I didn’t like about this video was that the font he used was extremely bland. He puts a lot of personality and humor into his photos with his facial expressions and I felt that should have carried over into his font as it is a point of interest.
I think we should be graded on keeping a theme. Since we are supposed to use video editing techniques I feel it is important to make sure these techniques are in line with our topic. For example with video 4, he uses music would is a good technique, however it did not fit the tone/theme of the subject matter. I think some effort should factor in as well. Some of these videos made me wonder if they threw this together quickly. In the second video, her voiceover needed to be redone because she has a lot of mistakes. I felt she just put the video together in a hurry without putting much thought or effort into the final product.
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