Last mission of semester 1

This mission took a lot of our time to do. The interviews were very time consuming and so was the editing. After some time though I got more familiar with Adobe pro and work speeded up. We have added some research at the beginning about Digital Journalism. The interviews were placed in the middle and then we showed our work process towards the end of the video. To make the video more interesting to watch we added it some video transitions and audio like music at the beginning and at the end of the video.

We spent a lot of hours on this mission and had big difficulties towards the end with exporting. Something was wrong with the files because half of the video went missing which meant we had to redo it. After long hours of stress and work we managed to fix this problem by re-downloading all the files again and placing them all into one folder. We also imported them all in again to be sure.

I liked working with my group because together we were able to overcome any obstacles and we were helping eachother with the work. We would ask eachother’s opinions and discussed everything first before we added it to the video. The work was fairly split and everyone knew what tasks they have to do. We stayed in contact all the time on messenger but we were all able to stay after College to work on the project which was very great. This meant we worked together almost all the time and didn’t have to rely on messenger communication only. Despite each of us being in different groups we still managed to arrange meetings and were willing to give up our free time in order to work on this mission.

I was happy yet slightly embarrassed with our video. I think we really went outside the box with the way we presented this mission. No other video involved acting which made it stand out from the rest. It was embarrassing to watch ourselves acting in the video and I think we should’ve gone further with it to make it more realistic. Next time I would work more on things like that and try to improve the flow of the video. Some bits looked a bit rushed and could be improved. We wanted to make the video formal looking since the topic about car incidents was serious. However we decided to add some humour to the interview of the drunk driver. We felt like this was very beneficial. 

Watching the videos of others made us wonder if we did it wrong because most of the videos were very alike but our one was different. We did stick to what the video must involve, we showed our work process and showed our two finished products so we guess we completed the mission correctly. A lot of videos were screen recorded with audio in the background. We had to mark each video on our own using our phones. It was very difficult to judge them based on the marking scheme we had. Some videos were interesting to watch while some were hard to understand and were rushed.