THIS OR THAT
by: Sharren and Ellen
Indecisiveness is a personality trait that many of us have. In this project, I decided “indecisiveness” as our topic and explained how to be indecisive. Throughout the video we give examples of how indecisiveness dominated one person’s life and depicted how she feels unmotivated and finally finds motivation to get up. During brainstorming, my partner and I wanted our video to be about usual problems that we go through in our daily life. This gives us being unmotivated to be the topic at first. But we changed it to being indecisive as the main topic as it affects our daily lives more often.
We want our video to be a modern style video as the topic is a problem that we undergo today. So it signifies it happens in the present-day not in the past. The storyboard is really helpful because during the making of it, we can understand our topic in detail by thinking about the scenes. The storyboard also helped us in determining whether the scenes are coherent to each other and not out of topic. During the process from brainstorming to filming, the problem we encountered was the time difference as we both live in different countries with a 12 hour time difference. To overcome this problem, we choose the time that we are both free and available. Another problem is making the narration as it should be a visual metaphor, the narration and the video should not be the same and obvious. At first, our narration clearly described the word indecisiveness, after critique 1, we changed our narration into a poetic type with a range of vocabularies. The next problem is during the filming, as we live in a different place we should film things individually. To overcome this, we divide the scenes and assign which scenes we should do. We also have our own google drive folder to upload the videos and ideas we have. During the editing process, some of the clips we filmed turned out to be overexposed. So I play around the brightness and contrast during editing. I also learned how to use the white balance effects.
In this project, mostly we did everything together and divided the task. The narration, Ellen wrote it first and I edited it if something didn’t work out. I also made the storyboard draft. However, we didn’t use the initial storyboard as we changed a lot of things in the narration. In the final storyboard we also divide it into two. Same with the filming process, we filmed the scenes and uploaded it into the google drive folder. We put some extra shots of our own ideas there to have it as a backup. I am really glad to have Ellen as my partner, even though we just met and talked in this course, things went really well with her. She contributed a lot and had creative ideas.
Since I want the video to be modern, I use titles with playful fonts to make it attractive. The color of the video is also vibrant and not black and white, to make the video alive not gloomy. In this video we mainly use close up shots and medium shots. Some of the clips are also screen recorded.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zce65Q8HkjkMFEiqCS3Y-nIuiEJ2mNpW/view?usp=sharing