Edited Interview

As promised, here is an edited version of the previous interview. I tried my best to cut out all the "ums" and "ahhs" and other little words that ruin todays English Language.

This was really the first true edditing I have tried with Final Cut Pro. As time goes on I will be able to add text, music, B-Roll and many more functions of editing. So, although this is edited, it still is rough, there is no fades, or great transitions but it is what it is, and I am proud to have taken the first step. Enjoy.

Interview

Todays assignment was an interview. This is my first ever attempt at interviewing somebody on camera so please be kind. I decided to interview Mike Cafro, a senior architecture major at Roger Williams. I asked him questions relating to what project he was working on now, his trip to Florence and the stress that comes with being an architecture major at Roger Williams.

I chose Mike to interview because he is a very hard working architecture major. He is in studio a lot and tends to work very long and very hard on all of his projects. He recently took a semester in Italy and I thought it would be nice to hear his comparisons of Italy to America and how he enjoyed his time there.

This video is completely unedited as we need to show our professor we can at least get video onto our blog. In the next day or two I will have an edited video that I will post right next to this unedited one. Again this is the first interview I have ever done, and the video is incredibly rough. Enjoy, and please be kind.

Also, I just learned that I was not supposed to be in the video, my apologies. I thought I was supposed to be on camera during the interview, next time I will be off.

First video with Flip Video Ultra

This is my first try at uploading a video with the new Flip Video Ultra. My first billion attempts failed miserably. I had to delete many of my first videos off of my camera because of suspected curupted data. Sadly, I had to delete all my show and tell of my iPod, along with many other videos I had spent countless hours (or minutes) recording.

I am still having trouble getting my camera to work on my Toshiba Laptop at home as it seems like everything freezes up whenever I try to open the software. Luckily, I was finally able to make a rough video and get it to save in our Mac Lab.

After uploading it onto the computer I put it into final cut prob and transformed my 35 sec video into about a 20 sec video. HOPEFULLY THIS WORKS!!!!!! when I click post.

1st Show and Tell

For our first assignment, we were asked to do a "show and tell" about something meaningful to us on our new Flip Ultra video camera. At first I wanted to show off my new English Bulldog Puppy, Lola. I attempted to make a video of of me talking about Lola, with her in the picture, but it was too difficult to work with a live animal and no camera man behind the camera. Also, I had to sit down in order to try and keep Lola in the picture and this just didn't work too well for me. Next I figured I would talk about some of my baseball autographed plaques. When I attempted to film this there was too much glare off of the glass inside from the artificial light. I was unable to go outside because it rained all day Friday, I had to work 8am-6pm on both Saturday and Sunday, and it was breezy and slightly raining out on Monday.

So as I was driving back to school from my house, angry that I could not find anything to show and tell, I looked at my iPod to change a song and realized, thats it. The reason I thought my iPod would be perfect to show for this project is because it incorporates a lot of things that are meaningful to me. The first reason is that my iPod is with me almost all the time. I listen to it in the gym, I listen to it in the car, sometimes on the way to classes, and even at night when I am going to bed. Another reason it is meaningful to me is I one day hope to work in the music business. Right now I am interning for clear channel radio in Hartford and I love it. I listen to all types of music and I one day would love to have my own radio show, or just work behind the scenes in radio or the music industry.

What a better object to show and tell that represents music then an iPod. It holds every piece of music I have from my favorite artists to my many playlists that get me through every day. Music that helps me get through tough times, and music that motivates me to get through a great workout, its all in one place, my iPod. I will soon have my edited video loaded on this blog for you all to see, but first I wanted to tell you why I thought my iPod is so meaningful to me.

Since I didn't get to do a stand up show and tell of my puppy I decided to post a short video of her playing instead. Stay tuned for the stand up show and tell of the iPod but heres a quick video of Lola and my moms dog Bernard playing together to hold you over until then.