Final Production - Comm 360

On our final project for studio production, we focused on shooting a real production with a real subject and credible talents.  Our group, (group B) chose the subject of the 2012 end of the world prophecies.  For preproduction, we had to make sure we had questions prepared.  My choice of topic was the economical effects prior to the estimated time of the end of the world. As said in my discussion board with my classmates: "I'm not sure if I'm beating a dead horse with the economical subject, but I feel like believers of 2012 will highly affect the county's economy.  A great sample questions would be:

WIll the economy be affected before and/or after the proposed date of the end of the world and how will it be affected?"

Although the idea was not used, we finished the questions and brainstorming and found our talents. We were ready for the big day of filming.

Unfortunately, when that big day came, a power outage occurred on campus. This caused our talents to not show up and questioned whether or not we were actually going to film that day.  After waiting, we found the power to be restored. It was starting to look as if we were actually going to be able to film.  However, none of our talents showed up.  We improvised by replacing them with members of our team. Setup for filming was in progress and then suddenly one of our original talents showed up. Now, we actually have some credibility in our production. I was assigned the position of video switcher.  I listened carefully to the director for switching directions, and although it is not allowed, gave advise of when to switch and camera directions. The only error made was that the microphone on our guest fell of in the middle of the production.

Moving on, I volunteered to edit.  When receiving the footage there was a huge problem with the audio. There was a huge buzz noise the entire time. Also the part when the microphone dropped was very loud. On top of that, it was slightly overtime.  So, the first thing to do was to take the audio into audacity and take a print of the buzzing noise alone and remove the audio throughout the entire file.  This worked very well. I was impressed at our sound guy for making sure each talent had the same audio level.  This was something I noticed no one else had.  Next, I solved both of our last two problems.  We were overtime and the microphone was dropped halfway through. So, I decided to take out the entire phrase where the microphone was dropped (which happened to be irrelevant to the conversation, so no continuity was sacrificed) I managed to edited it to be right on time. I turned in the edited video the next class and we noticed that the format was a very low res format. It was then that I re-edited the entire thing (because I didn't save it) and rendered it again as an AVI file.  Finally the file was done and we rendered it yet again with the Shepherd University bumpers. Our project was done!