Throughout this course I would say that my favorite project during the semester was the Unit 4 Video story project. I had the most fun with this one and I enjoyed actually filming and editing my own videos by myself. It was a very fun topic that I enjoyed. Coming into this course I had no technology skills so I was very nervous. I actually had a thought in my mind that this course was going to be very challenging for me, and at time is was. Getting through the tutorials was definitely one of the most challenging things throughout the course that took a lot of patience. After completely this course I learned how to do so much from all the different tools I learned, which I can definitely use later with my major. I am planning on doing Public Relations with my career path. With this career path I could use the Adobe apps when creating things for a business possibly which would be very helpful. There is no skill that I really wanted to learn since I came into the class originally not knowing anything. I wouldn’t say I found any website useful, but I would say that exploring the different Adobe apps I really enjoyed. Now that I know how to use them all I can use them with anything! For my final comment, I just wanted to say that this was one of the most enjoyable classes I have taken that at the same time taught me a lot of helpful things that I can actual use in the future.

When first starting my Video Story I wanted to have a very descriptive narrative that went along with the videos that I took. I wanted my videos to be very straight forward and also relate to my topic. I wanted my topic choice to be clear throughout the video, and I wanted to use many transitions in order to make my Video Story more entertaining to watch.

From the feedback I received back, it was mostly good. Someone mentioned to maybe take new videos, so the background would relate to my topic more. Another person suggested having a smoother beginning to the video, and many encouraged me to add music throughout the whole video.

When making my revisions I took everyone’s ideas to mind. I decided to instead film my videos at the Recreation Center on Washington State’s campus, to have stronger footage that related to my topic more. I really enjoyed making this change to the video, and I thought it did overall make it stronger. This was one of my major changes I did. Other than that, I cut my audio to make it sound more clear and adjusted the volume. I also used different transitions instead of using the same one every time. One thing I did change my mind about was adding the music. I really wanted to do this and I even downloaded a song on youtube audio files and when I included in my video I didn’t like how it sounded. I felt with the music added you couldn’t focus on the narrative part as well, and I really wanted my narrative part to get the most focus.

Overall, I am very happy with my overall Video Story, the feedback I got was very helpful in making changes, and I thought by taking new videos it did make my Video Story a lot stronger.