The project that I have been working on is a promotional video for Playwrights Project. I was really excited to get to make a video for my project and I am very proud of the final product. The last "promo" video that Playwrights had was made about three years ago, so it is a tiny bit outdated. My mentor said that a video was just something that no one else had time to do, so I was able to take it off someone else's plate and also complete my internship project.
Process:
1. Before I started making my video, I had to watch many many hours of video of different programs that Playwrights Project had. (Their camera records onto tapes...just think about that. I didn't even know tapes were still a thing.)
2. Once I had watched those videos, I went a did a little bit of extra research. Reading a couple articles and watching some example videos from other companies.
3. Once I had done all that, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted my final video to look like. I wrote up a very basic outline for the video. I pitched this idea to Lizzie and Cecilia and they gave me some suggestions and critique.
4. Next, Cecilia let me set up the video camera in her office and I filmed a little interview with her. The camera was not too great considering it recorded onto tapes (and it made a little whizzing sound and there was nothing you could do about it.) But the tripod they had was really nice. I want one like it very badly now.
5. Once I had the interview recorded, I had to start putting it on the computer. I was introduced to a new program called "Pinnacle" which is a video editing software for Windows computers.
6. Once I had uploaded the footage to Pinnacle, I started putting together a rough cut of my video. I uploaded some footage they had of different programs and put it into a very rough video.
7. Once I watched the rough cut enough, I knew what I still needed. So I wrote up a script for Erika to read for my video.
8. Once the piece was written, I filmed Erika's portion. She doesn't have her own office, so we took a bunch off stuff out of the copy room and set up in there...we filmed in front of a bunch of filing cabinets.
9. At this point, I had my presentation and was able to show off what I had so far.
10. I edited some more and made a few final edits.
11. Complete! Sweet.
.........................................And I did not have slides for my presentation on Thursday.