Video Project Reflection

College Life: County Market

When we started this project, we had a bunch of odd ideas floating around that we knew would be entertaining for us, but very few other people would understand. So we drew a blank when we were trying to figure out what would work and what was new and unfamiliar to us. We originally were going to find out which had better deals, the Dollar Tree or County Market because we know that some of the things at the Dollar Tree are actually less than a dollar at real grocery stores. But we weren’t able to get a car for the weekend and the video camera that we checked out didn’t work, so when we tried to do it over the weekend, we failed. Erin and I were trying to figure out what we should do instead and since we are at County Market all the time we decided we would find out what other people thought about it. I think that this is a much better angle because it is much more relevant to students. We wanted to know why that location, why now and who shops there. We both also thought it would be really cool if we could build off of our last project, the podcast, so we decided to kind of treat this like it was part of a show for college kids. We figured since County Market was on campus and we really needed a grocery store, it would be cool to “show students around”. If it were a real program, I think that it makes sense to have our embarrassing moments stories one day a week, then do a segment on the new or cool places on campus so that students can know what’s up. The show would really appeal to kids because it caters to them without being boring. I really like doing visual projects like films because I think that you have much more opportunity to be creative. My high school projects always ended up really fun, so I was really looking forward to this. I thought using the camera was really easy and we switched off so that we both got the hang of using it. One downside of using the camera was that it looks really shaky, but I don’t think that that could have been helped. I thought the project would take much longer to complete than it actually did. Once we got there, I think that we were pretty lucky getting good interviews with people who actually used County Market and had been there before. Using the iMovie program to edit was tricky at first because neither of us had ever used it. We had no idea how to go about editing on the computer. During high school, I made at least 5 movie projects, but I would just tape over parts that had screw-ups. It would take hours to get through the project, but the editing software made it so much easier. We could cut anything that wasn’t perfect, which was awesome. The program was really easy once I got the hang of it though and a lot of fun to play around with. I don’t think that any two parts of the movie that we made are shown in the order that we filmed them, which is really cool. I was able to edit out parts that were shaky and mess around with it until I got a finished product I really liked.