Monday, May 12, 2014
Unicycle Video Outline
For my final video, I decided to
record people attempting to ride a unicycle. I wanted to make a video with very
limited audio that focused more on people either succeeding or failing at
riding a unicycle. The video will be more experimental and will incorporate
both the footage of people’s attempts, as well as stills of them. I’m doing
thing video solo, so I will be capturing footage as well as editing that
footage together into the final product.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Drone Write-up
Spring Day at Lyndon 2014 was an impressive, and thriving arrangement of live music, food, and games including a rock climbing wall, and a slack line. The Spring Dip is an event that everyone at the Spring Day seemed to look forward too, a climax of the afternoons activities. The Spring dippers, all dressed in crazy outfits, varying from polka-dots shorts to balloon bee wings, sported by President Joe Bertolino.
The Spring dippers lined up for the dip at 3pm, and my fellow videographer, Jake Reardon flew the GoPro wielding DJI Phantom Helicopter into the air in preparation for the Spring Dip. The countdown was made, and the dippers ripped down the hill and full heartedly leaped into the water. A media consultant at Lyndon State wore a GoPro as he made the plunge into the pond, getting a first person point of view for those who didn’t make the plunge themselves, to get an idea of the experience. The spring dippers came out of the cold water at different paces, but none of them seemed to concerned with drying off, the adrenaline was pumping too much for them to consider that. The President Joe turned to the GoPro on Tak’s chest and let out a yell of pure exhilaration.
After filming the dip the Phantom DJI helicopter was returning to land when it lost power and dipper into the pond about fifteen feet away from the shore, it sunk quickly as we watched in dismay. The drone lay at the bottom as people who had seen it go down jumped in with all their clothes on to swim and try to save the device. These brave venturers had more guts than I did as I watched from the shore, I was impressed and graced by the clear concern for the loss of our equipment. A bounty for $100 was put on the device to help locate and return it, and many adventures tried to swim and locate it to pull it out of the pond. Eventually a thoughtful soul, Patrick McLaughlin a Lyndon State College 08’ alumni, went into the pond with full scuba gear and used his rescue experience with the fire department to help him locate the drone. A video was taken of Patrick returning the drone to Dan Williams, the original purchaser of the device, with Patrick in full scuba gear. Dan seemed to be very happy to have the drone returned, and in turn made the aerial footage in this video possible!
Video: Digital SLR: Joe Schlee
GoPro Helicopter: Jacob Reardon
GoPro Chest Cam: Tak Shimamura
Audio: Joe Schlee, Jacob Reardon, Tak Shimamura
Editing: Joe Schlee, Jacob Reardon
Writing: Joe Schlee
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Video Project 1
The transition from home to the college life style is not always an easy adjustment to make. At home, the cupboards are fully stocked, and the settings are familiar to you. When you first move into a dorm room, it is usually much smaller than your room at home, and the dorm is commonly shared with a fellow student, whom you may or may not get along with. The dorm rooms share a lounge area where the members of a suite can convene. The dorm does not feature a stovetop, so one must rely on microwaves for hot food. If the dining hall isn’t open, you can always stop by the Hornets Nest for a late night snack. It’s not exactly like home cooking, but after microwave mac and cheese, its an improvement. A fridge is shared in the lounge area, but without a kitchen, it does not get much use. The bathrooms are a wild card in the dorms as some have been renovated, and some have not. The cleanliness of the bathrooms ranges from scary to tolerable on a regular week day.
After a few semesters of college most students make the choice to either continue living on campus, or to move to an apartment in the area. Having an apartment has its advantages, and disadvantages. First off, living off campus, more time is needed to get to your classes. Most apartments include a full kitchen, which is nice for a change to be able to cook a hot meal that is not in the microwave. The bathroom, remains as clean as your roommates keep it, which is a nice change from sharing a bathroom with fourteen guys, to only two to three. The bedrooms in a standard Lyndon apartment are decently sized and usually do not come with any furnishing, which is a downside to living off campus. Instead of a lounge area, it is nice to having a living room in an apartment as opposed to a common lounge area, as you don't have to worry about leaving your belongings out there. Whichever you choose, to live on or off campus, your college experience will vary depending on what you make of it. The Lyndon area has lots of activities to offer for when your not in class, and when you do need to study, the school has great resources on campus to do so in a productive manner.
Sound: Jake Reardon and Joe Schlee
Video: Jake Reardon and Joe Schlee
Editing: Jake Reardon
Audio: Natural and Interview/Narration by Jake and Joe
Friday, March 28, 2014
Video in Newspapers
I went to the Huffington Post's website to view some of their videos online that correspond with the stories in their newspaper. Their videos run about the same length as an average television news report at about 1.5 minutes. The site itself is set up nicely and allows for one to easily find different covered stories on the right hand column of the page. I feel that the stories covered in the Huffington Post are more interesting then the stories covered on iReport. The stories are set up and organized in terms of what the story is covering which allows one to more easily find a specific story topic. The navigation of the site is very good and helps to find any given story.
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