Words of Wisdom

We had a video project called "Words of Wisdom" in GT; we teamed up with Hiki No to make a video on basically words of wisdom from someone that you know that's older than you. We chose Edmund Acoba, who is a karate sensei and a fifth circuit family court judge. Before going out and filming, we filled out a planning sheet, planning the questions and shot types. Sheila and Audrey (who were in my group) filmed the interview and b-roll. As usual, I edited all of the clips and put them together.

When we interviewed Edmund, he gave us the advice that time management is really important, and you should try to take time for everything, especially for the things that you love. It's an important thing to know so you aren't too stressed out and want to rip your hair out, but you're happy doing the things that you like to do. For Edmund, his outlet is karate, he doesn't just teach it, he actually loves doing it.

Five Tips For...

We did a "Five Tips" video in our GT class, and my group (which consisted of Sheila Blum, Audrey Garrison, and Kaya Waldman) decided to make a video on five tips for living healthy. Audrey and Kaya were the people that were in the actual video, Sheila did the voice overs and helped me film, and I edited the entire thing. Our five tips were to:

1. Exercise often
2. Try meditating
3. Eat healthy
4. Remember to relax
5. Sleep more

We chose this topic because it was easy to do and it was a topic that our whole group could agree on doing. We could have cut down on the camera movement, there were a few shots where the camera was shakey. Also we could have added more interesting angles, to make the video look better. The voice overs sounded like they were from a script, -which it was- but it could have souned like Sheila was talking it, not reading it.