Time Group Blog Post

Making the time video has been one of the best group project experience to date. Group mates wanted to be a part of the project which is an issue that occurs way too often. The personalities of the group’s members were very similar which made group work less awkward and so much more fun. It even made it to a point to where the group planned on meeting up with each other sometimes outside of class to hang out without having school be the reason that brought the group together. Having the whole group on board with an idea is something that helped out a lot as well. The idea came up rather quickly and the groups vision was very similar and was all on the same page. The group felt as if the video was more successful than expected and extremely happy with the film created. The reaction from the class and the feedback the was given was taken into account and greatly appreciated. A major struggle for the individual video was finding someone to film for the video because a lot of the shots required someone else to get the shot. Struggles that occurred during the project were that the amount of film that was desired to be put into the film exceeded the length of what the video was supposed to be. Even after all of the editing more edits were needed in order to get the film to the necessary time as well as getting all of the clips wanted into the film. Other struggles that occurred was finding time for all of the group to get together and edit because of work schedules as well as other priorities. The last issues were finding the correct music to completely give the viewer the idea that the purpose of the video is to represent time. The visuals of a video have a huge effect on the viewer obviously but the sound is what really captures a video. This is why finding the right music was so hard. Finding music that had a fast-paced tempo in the beginning and then kind of a nice resolution like ending took some time. After the showing of the video the pier feedback was good. There are multiple advantages to using film over other mediums such as writing or photographs. With writing some people are not able to visualize exactly what the author is writing so what the person perceives from the text may not match up with what the authors intended message was. As well as anybody can understand images regardless of nationality, race, or the language spoken. The reason that videos are better than photographs is that with photographs it is one single frame which gives not context as to what is going on. As well as on the flip side a video has the visual aspect to it as well as the audio part. Hearing the spoken words is something that can make people receive the message even easier. Having two different ways that someone can take in a message the better it will be for the viewer. Based on the way a viewer perceives things again the message that was planned by the photographer may not exactly match up. Something seen as beautiful to one person may seem absolutely disgusting to another, it is all about context. Videos don’t even have to have any dialogue and can portray a brilliant message across a wide spread of people. The public nature of the video had no affect because time is something that people talk about on a daily basis, it is what makes the world run the way it does. Time being such a part of public the videos content could have been anything and the idea would have gotten across to people. Having the subject of abstract like the other group it may have more difficult to make sure that the video would be perceived well by everyone who may view the video. The self-portrait experienes was something that was something different because being media productions majors being behind the camera is something that is normal rather than being Infront of it. In all of the individual videos, the group members did do a pretty good job of not only opening up and telling the class a little bit more about themselves but as well as acting out the idea of time. Having had issues with posting videos to social media sights before not having one posting this video actually came as a surprise. The link to the individual video, https://youtu.be/_l_Rq3fOIfY.