Week6: Self-evaluation and Takeaways

Although it is a relatively short-term experience with my supervisor in this educational institution. While working on this big video project, I walked away with some useful tips and skills that I can later apply to my future career.

Here’s what I learned and applied to my practice. One lesson is how to communicate messages to your audience effectively in a video. Another is how to attract your audience’s attention. Also, how to keep your audience’s attention in a longer video.

First, the aspect of the video project I am working on is to deliver a feeling of happiness and excitement, pride, and anticipation. Therefore, I’ve researched bright and happy music tracks to create such feelings. Also, I was directed by my supervisor to insert some photos between longer frames to create a sense of a music video. And it successfully converts a happy experience of the event.

Another piece of advice from my supervisor is how to attract and keep the audience’s attention. One of the components is to involve dynamic motion graphics in the video. Another is to make the visual flow with the beats/lyrics.

The image below shows an example of my editing screen. Bars in lavender color present image files, blue bars present video files, and green bars present music soundtracks. This graph shows an overview of how I took advice from my supervisor and mixed photo files with video files.

Example of My Editing Screen

Below is an example of the older version to compare for a better understanding. In this graph, we can tell lavender bars (photo files) and blue bars (video files) are separated into two sections.

Example of the Older Version

All the points listed above are some thoughtful and useful advice from my supervisor. After receiving feedback from him, I organized the notes and applied them to my revised version of the video project. From this internship, I’ve learned some new skills and also applied my skills to achieve the project goal. It is a wonderful learning experience.