I really felt as if though I had full creative freedom with this project. Being able to do whatever I wanted (in a sense) for this project was a dream come true. Until I realized my ambitions were so far away from my skill level, it was going to take a lot of time and effort to satisfy my OCD tendencies. From waiting for random ideas to arise in class to editing in my final scene was hard work. When thinking about what I could do for this project, I took to the internet. Watching my favorite documentaries from Vice, HBO, and National geographic I gathered inspiration and style ideas to enhance my own brainstorm. After deciding to focus on my friend Kevin’s fall out of football grace, I had to collect film. I had recorded him telling the story maybe 30 times. Picking and choosing the best interpretations of each. I had collected them all and had to produce the rough draft. Having what I thought was such good footage, I feel like I had thrown it away with my less then sub-par skills. Even though I had received praise on my rough draft from my peers, I didn’t feel like it was nearly as good as it could have been. Taking a much-needed break from school during Thanksgiving break, it was time to get back to work. Spending hours cutting each clip from its original 3-minute interview, gathering music and one non-original clip of cougar stadium, I had produced my project, drawing inspiration from numerous Life documentary sources like those mentioned above.

Moving into the more technical side of this it was a nightmare! Jumping straight in after collecting my video footage. I would have to pray to get my computer to accept one video from my phone. I had talked to multiple people, seemingly with no answer but to hope. After hours spending importing video clips. The music was pulled from a creative commons website and is credited, as well as the stadium image. Besides for that, all footage was my own. Cutting the clips together to produce a coherent story was necessary for the base of my intentions. After the story was together, I had followed a tutorial online on how to create the triple image lettering. Using the essential graphics and effect controls I was able to create the title screen “OUT” referring to his injury taking him out of the game. Utilizing the effect control fade him out Infront of the image of the game. The scene of him walking down the stairs and hallways were done via doubling the clip and reducing the frame rate to appear as his body was lagging him. Finishing it off with some video-music synchronization!

It was a pleasure to produce this project as its exactly what I hope to produce in a professional environment. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did create it!

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