This project was a roller coaster for me. I had struggled in the beginning of the tutorials. My phone seemed to be my only way to record and so I used it to get my start. It ended up being a difficult piece of technology to work with. Premier Pro had struggled to play and show my videos to me. I ended up having to sit for hours trying over and over to get the videos on my phone to my computer as it kept giving me errors. All of this led to me having problems just getting the tutorials done.

That week also came to be the week where sickness slapped me in the face. I got a soft sore throat that ended up evolving into a massive headache and cough that was uncontrollable. I went to the clinic on campus and was on medicine. I stayed in bed for a few days, working from home. I couldn’t go out and get videos for my project due to me being sick. I ended up turning in a draft that I was extremely unproud of. I felt terrible. I was worried about the final. But I went off on break and tried to get to feeling better.

This week, things turned around. I went to a hall meeting in Stimson. I had met an RA who was in Com 210 with me. I asked him what he does to record as I had been dealing with a boat load of problems on my phone. He told me about a place on the fourth floor of Avery Hall. I could go get a camera from them and rent it out. This advice was a life saver. I felt better, got together with my friends and got some interviews and clips that I was proud of. Exporting was a breeze. I got to go workout and feel good and get my work done all in one. I got to editing and this is my most favorite work that I have completed in this course.

This is by far my roughest draft. I have been caught off guard with a sickness that has eaten away at my week. I am not happy with my progress so far, but I know where I want to go with this project and hope to achieve these goals when I get back into better health. The clips I have are of other times over the last few weeks that we have visited the recreation center. I wanted to get together with my friends and talk to them about the reasons they enjoy heading to the rec to play soccer. It is a place we head to often to go play soccer and to hang out. We always seem to meet someone new or get a game going with people around us. I feel it is a place that all of my friends and I enjoy and value on campus. I couldn’t get together with my friends and play soccer to record or to get interviews.

I look forward to being in better health and getting to get this project to a point where I am proud of it. I want to talk with my friends about what they enjoy about the indoor soccer and how it helps them in their lives. I also want to get better footage of my friends and I playing or of us with other people playing there to show its meaning. I feel with the time I have I will be able to improve and see the project I planned out come together in front of me.

In the time I spent to put this project together, I got sick to the point of just staying in bed and staying home from classes. I felt terrible for multiple days and could only make it from class to dorm. I was unable to go to see my friends due to my sickness. This led to me having a lack of video to work with and put together and be proud of. I used what I had to make something that minorly reflects where I want to go with my vision. I spent hours battling my phone and laptop to get videos off of my phone and into premiere. I wasn’t happy with where I was but I had to take care of myself. I want a lot more from this and I will work to get more out of it when the final comes around.

This project was extremely fun to create and work on. When I first started on the introduction pieces I was a little confused as I have never used this program before. I soon realized that I could have a lot of fun and create something great with this program. I read the requirements for the introduction projects and I sent a text out to my friends and got them together to ask them the question “What’s your favorite holiday tradition?” Went out to eat and had a good night. I brought them out and we sat together and I fed them the question and started recording their responses. I let them go and answer. I took their answers and edited them together. I had a great time with every piece of this project so, when the draft came around I decided to do something similar.

My topic is soccer because it’s the sport I’ve played my whole life and it has done so many things for me and helped me in a multitude of ways. So, I decided to create a question so I could keep on track with my topic and learn from my friends. I asked “Experiences they have had with soccer” I left it sort of vague so they could choose anything they clearly remember and would like to talk about. I loved getting together with my friends and learning about them. I put the pieces together and found some background music to put in that I felt fit. I also asked my roommate and switched out one of my friends answers because it wouldn’t fit in the time frame. I then looked at the comments on the draft and fixed a few little things to perfect my project. I’m really happy with the outcome.

Background music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Uncle_Milk/STR8/1_Conjungation

I started getting ideas as soon as I started to work through the tutorials of this topic. I needed to ask some friends simple questions. “What is your favorite holiday tradition?” A simple question, or so I thought. That question sparked a text to my friends from soccer that lead into a great night out to get food and then after we ate, we sat outside, and we talked about or favorite holiday traditions for a while. Then, I got my phone out and recorded their answers. It was a great night. I got to editing and like the way we edited the pieces together. I took all of this into my final project. I wanted to stay to soccer, and I felt like learning from my friends on what soccer means to them. So, again, a text was sent out to my group and I asked if they wanted to go eat and if I could ask them questions about soccer. We all got together and eat out that night. We went outside afterwards and started talking. I wish that things would’ve stayed a little more serious, but we were having fun talking and so before I get my final I want to go get better recording from my friends. I used my phones voice memo ability to record for this project. It worked really well to be able to get good audio quality. I ran into a few very manageable problems with this project. One was the fact that my phone didn’t record and keep the audio in a file form that was acceptable by Audition. They come out in M4A files and that doesn’t work in Audition unless you open the preferences tab and turn on a setting that allows that file form to be edited. The only other bump in the road was that my background was bland. I asked Ron about where I could get some royalty free music for the background. He helped me find the website Free Music Archive where I found my background music. I am really excited to get into the final project and get my best product finished.

Background music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Uncle_Milk/STR8/1_Conjungation