Video class project #1: interview
I shot this with the company camcorder, a Canon Vixia RF10. I used some photo kit lights on the interview with Tom and Les, and the backlight from the neon sign was great. It even makes a lens flare-like color floating around the shot. Our text book said not to frame faces the way I did on the closeups, but I saw examples of this online and dug it. The intro and outro were flash elements I had made earlier for web and in-house screen savers. A lot of the b-roll was already prepared for the Stonewall website, so that was quick to grab, I just wish I had taken the time to slowly zoom in on them. The animated web ads toward the end were a Jing Pro video screen grab of the ads running in a browser, pretty handy. The rest of the hand-held b-roll I did very quickly and meant it to be shaky, but didn’t mean it to be so grainy and low-lit.
