Sami's Blog: May 2012

Thursday, 24 May 2012

College Ident Evaluation

I felt like we managed our time pretty well, For the first week we didn't get much done as I was ill and didn't come into college and Tom and Chenai also weren't feeling too good. As of the second week we planned out the College Ident and discussed what we could possibly do for it, later that week we finished all three of our mind maps. Finally for the third week we recorded all the footage we needed by using a Macbook with a webcam tapped to it and walked around the college campus. We did have some technical difficulties, especially with the iStopMotion program because it wouldn't let us record at a 1 frame per second whilst outside college, So we had to start recording in class and then walk out with laptop whilst recording and stop it when we get back in class. We did have to take a couple of takes till we got it right because sometimes it was too slow or just to fast. My other crew members really didn't do much at all if i'm honest apart from the mindmaps, I recorded all the footage by myself, I came up with the whole story of the college ident and I edited it all by myself. It definitely wasn't nice working alone because not only does it put all the pressure on me but we could have also finished the video a lot faster if we worked together. Basically the College Ident would still look the same if I wasn't in a group. Well like I said earlier I did the work pretty much all by myself so I feel like not only did I fulfil my roll to the max but I also did work of others. I tried my best to keep the Ident as relevant to the College as possible by using the college logo and card/i.d. I definitely feel that there is room for improvement and If I could change one thing about it or redo the project I would try to change the speed of the video as I feel it is a little jumpy at some parts and a little to fast at some other parts. Overall I believe the College Ident was a success and everyone seemed to enjoy it and left very positive comments.