Basically, in this video, Leanette–the girl in the purple shirt–is walking around school and she gets a call from some random person. She doesn’t know she’s being stalked until the stalker–Victoria–runs up behind her, attacks her, and kills her.
The quality was amazing… before I uploaded it on Google Classroom to my teacher! I have zero clue why it did that. The song we chose was Only You (And You Alone) by The Platters, since the mood of the song is supposed to be romantic, but the lyrics without context sound kind of obsessive–like a stalker. The music is loud up until it cuts to where it shows the stalker towards the left side of the shot, from there, the music gets quieter because the music is supposed to be what Leanette is hearing. The second shot where it shows Leanette answering a call from an unknown caller is supposed to be an over-the-shoulder shot, one of the easiest ones to execute, in my opinion. The third clip could also be an over-the-shoulder shot, since you see part of Victoria’s–or in other words, the stalker’s–back. The fourth clip is a point-of-view shot, as you can tell by how the camera gets closer to Leanette looking around and because the stalker is no longer in the shot. The fifth shot is a dolly shot, I held the camera and ran after the two, giving the viewer a feeling of suspense and anxiety as the stalker speeds to attack Leanette. Finally, in the last shot, the stalker is dragging what is supposed to be Leanette’s dead body away, I’m not quite sure if it could be considered a two shot or a wide shot. The music fades out at the end because, you know, she’s dead, so obviously she’s not going to hear the music anymore.
These short videos help with our bigger course project because with every video, our knowledge and ability to make these videos and edit them and piece clips together to form a story gets better. Experimenting with shots and composition allows us to better familiarize ourselves with being able to piece different shots together to make better videos. If we went over it, I forgot, because I don’t know what the Cambridge portfolio is, but I didn’t really research anything, unless you would consider me squeezing every drop of my brain juice to try and come up with an idea for a 30 second video research. Planning was just putting ideas onto a note on the phone, and production was pretty easy. Sure it took us like three hours to come out with 30 seconds, but we kept retaking scenes while trying to stay within the 30 second limit. I love using certain mise-en-scene factors to help add onto mood or central idea, like music and how it can either compliment or contrast scenes to give off certain scenes. For example, our song of choice contrasts the scenes, providing a sense of uneasiness.
Anyways, this is a blog not an essay, so I’ll try to keep this last one short. I learned it’s really hard to try and stay within such a small limit when you know you have a really good idea and have a really good plan to help make the video top tier media. I also learned that CapCut is so frustrating to use and that that company is just a bunch of money-hungry people, because what do you mean you’ll only let me export 9 more videos and then I’ll have to pay? That’s how you lose business. The easiest part of this class is the blogs, I might regret writing that later on though. These video assignments really help because it gives you experience so that when the final big project comes by, it’s going to be a piece of cake. I’ll be fine, hopefully.
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