Video Write-Up

The story we reported on was the discarding of books in the library. This was a good story to report on because a good amount of people on campus don’t know about it.

The process of making this video was very smooth. Everyone we worked with a very helpful with their information.

I was told a lot of background information by a librarian before I even started filming which gave me a base knowledge of what I wanted to film. He was a huge help, but I never had a chance to get him into the video.

When I first started filming, I was worried that we were not going to get the best natural sound because the nature of a library. After getting the correct shots, I noticed in the interview that there was enough natural sound from background noise.

In fact, there was so much background noise that we needed have a voice recorder to actual pick up the sound of Garet Nelson’s voice. This made editing the video and sound a little harder because we had to match the audio of his voice to the video of his mouth moving.

That process of matching was the most difficult thing to do while editing. The voice over was a little complicated too.

I edited the footage together before I saw Diana’s script with I personally wouldn’t do again because of timing. I had a rough idea of how long the voice over but some parts I was wrong which made more work for me in the long run.

Overall, this video went was smoother than other video I’ve done in the past. There were no program issues while exporting.

If I had to do this assignment again, I would get more footage of discarded books. I feel like be lacked in that area because we only have two shots of the older books.