Idea Inspiration

I was inspired to do another interview with my brother after the positive comments and feedback I got from my classmates about my audition audio story. I knew that I wanted to talk about movies with my brother, and figured that it would be a good idea to pick up where we left off in a sense. I also wanted to do something relevant in the midst of the coronavirus. I thought it would be important to inform my audience of that, as well as relating it to my topic.

Design Process

I began my design process by first planning out what I wanted to interview my brother about. I knew off the bat that it was going to be about movies again, but the problem I was running into was how I was going to make the interview between 1-2 minutes long. I also wanted my interview to be relevant to the coronavirus. My brother and I had been talking a lot about the coronavirus, and how it was impacting the release dates of Marvel movies. I thought that this would be a really good topic to discuss.

After I had my topic I began shooting some videos with my brother. After shooting a couple videos I decided to make myself a quick script of what to say, that way I could keep the video between 1-2 minutes long. Once I finished this part I began to look for relevant videos that I took on my phone of my brother and I getting ready to watch movies in the theater. I thought this would be a good visual for the audience to see while listening to the audio, along with a picture of my brother and I that plays toward the end.

Technical Detail

I struggled a lot when I was first shooting videos with my brother. Some were too long and some had horrible background noise from my dog walking around that would have been impossible to edit out. There were also really good shoots that I had that were ruined due to bad lighting, or a simple slip of the tongue that I made that would have been very hard to edit out. Unfortunately some really good conversations were also left out of the video due to time restraints. To try and fix these problems first I planned out when I would shoot the video along with making sure that everything was in its proper place. I then wrote myself a script and tried very hard to stay on track. After doing all of these things I was able to produce a good video.

After shooting the video I uploaded the video to premiere and added two videos I took of my brother and I a year ago. In the video we are waiting to watch Avengers Endgame in the movie theater. I tried to place these in a good part of the video that would add more context to my brother’s audio. I then added a photo of my brother and I at the movie theater to add more context. At the end of the video my recording device fell slightly and messed up the camera. I made sure to edit this part out of the video.