Unit 4 Final

For my final project, I didn’t do any major changes. I got good feedback saying that the idea was useful and that my intended target audience, college students, enjoyed it and felt that this was something they could use.

Some of the comments said that I should start my video with a title and my name. I added a 5 second title slide which I think was a good addition. I also got feedback suggesting I change my transitions and voice over to match a little better. Like I said I didn’t change much but I did move some clips slightly to have the voice over match a little better, and I changed some of the transitions.

Overall, I think I followed what the tutorials taught me plus I looked up some different ideas on my own. I tried to fix the quality of my video but this is the best I could do. I think I have a good project here and learned a lot in premiere.

Unit 4 Draft Video

For this video I decided to make a how-to video. This video is for people who don’t have time but still want to make their own food. I got the idea because as part of my last project I interviewed a WSU student and the main thing they said was that they don’t have any time, and as a result they go out to eat a lot. This is the problem with most college students. In some of my other projects I looked into some surveys and the result was all the same.

I got all the video clips myself. I had a friend of mine film me making the entire thing, and then I did a voice over in the end. I used a lot of the tips the tutorials went over. First some of my videos didn’t end up being the same size so I adjusted the scaling to make them all look the same. I also used the video transition effects throughout the video.

One thing I found while I was making my video was that the clips were very long, because making food takes a little time to prep it, and the video can only be 1-2 minutes long. I wanted to speed the video clips up like they to in other how-to videos that I’ve seen. Since we didn’t go over this in any of the tutorials I had to look it up online. It was a lot easier than I thought and I didn’t have to do much.

Overall, Premiere wasn’t my favorite thing to work with. I didn’t have any issues, I just felt like my skills would be better than they really were so my video didn’t quite meet me expectations. I know this video could probably use some work so I’m open to hear everyone’s ideas.

Raw Footage and StoryBoard

Sample Storyboard: Cooking for College Students

Visual Elements	Audio Elements
0:00-0:XX  Layout off the ingredients I will be using	Have footage of the food I’ll be using with a voice over of the prices of the items
0:XX-X:XX  Clips of me prepping the food	Voice over of how to do everything that I’m doing in the video
X:XX-X:XX  since I’m using the crockpot ill have a clip of that for a while	Ticking sounds for a clock
The end will be a finished look of the overall piece	Music in the background

The reason for the short videos is that I won’t be able to actually cook the meal until Wednesday.

Unit 4 Tutorials

Final Audio

For my final, I didn’t rerecord any of the clips, because the feedback that I got said it sounded clear and professional. A lot of the feedback I got said that my draft was good, I should just rearrange my facts so that instead of them all being at the end, clip them so that one interview questions ends with the fact that is relevant to it. I also got some feedback saying I should have some sound in between my clips.

I first started editing my draft by adding two different sounds. I recorded myself cutting some carrots and I put it at the start of each question. The second clip was me moving some dishes around, I put this clip in between the end of the answer and in from of the fact I was about to tell. I decided to add two different once because I thought that it would make it clear to the listener of what was coming next. I then used the razor tool to cut the facts clip. I cut it once because I only provided two facts. I put one of them at the end of the first question and the other and the end of the second question because I thought that’s were they fit best. I also adjusted the sound of the clips so that the one of my cutting carrots faded in and out and was a little louder. My last question I didn’t provide a fact because the question was opinion based.

In my draft I originally had four questions but I took out the third one because I thought it related to the second question a little, and I went over the time since I added sounds in between my clips. At first I thought a change I should make was putting a sound clip at the start and finish of my clip, but I ended up not liking it as much. I thought the addition of the sounds in between were good enough.

Overall, I think the changes I made to my clip made it a lot better than before. I think my audio still tells an information story of how a WSU college student spends her money. Ideally I would have liked to have a second opinion, but I didn’t have enough time, because I wanted to ask three questions to the same person instead of one question to different people. Like I said, I’m very satisfied with the way my audio turned out.

Audio Draft

For my project, I interviewed a random WSU student. Since my blog is based on cooking with a budget I asked questions that related to the topic. I thought this was a good idea because it gave people an understanding that this is a real issue that college students face. I ended my interview with some facts that I found online. I thought this was a good addition because it gives perspective on how all college students spend their money and not just the random student I interviewed.

I used the clipping tool we used in the tutorials to clip some of the space in between clips, and to help make the video more smooth. I also messed with the volume to make all the clips sound the same instead of having some be louder than others. When I got my clips I didn’t make the audio too long in the first place so that it would make editing a little easier, but also because I had some difficulties sending a large file from my phone to my email. I had to record and send a few different times before I found out which time frame was easiest to spend without issue.

I wanted to add some sound but I had too much footage that I maxed out on time. I’m not sure if this is something I should still add, because if I end up adding music I will have to take something out, but I’m hoping some of the feedback with help solve this issue. I really liked the information on the end so I’m not sure I want to take that out but maybe someone feels like one of the questions is out of place, or unneeded that I might be able to change.

Overall, I didn’t seem to have too many issues on getting the footage, or editing it into something I liked. I think this fits my topic pretty well, but I’m interested to hear what my peers think could make it better.

 

 

Raw Audio Footage

I found a WSU student and asked them questions about their food budget and a few other questions. I only have the answers right now, but will record everything else later.

Unit 3 Tutorials

Final Logo

For my final logo I didn’t change much of the base look. I kept the colors because I liked that the warm colors represent hunger. My peers gave positive feedback as well so it was left untouched.

I got a lot of feedback saying I didn’t need both the “Haylee’s Kitchen” and the “HK” because they both meant the same thing. I chose to keep “Haylee’s Kitchen” because I liked how it went around the circle, and how it balances the lines at the bottom. Since I took out the “HK” in the middle I had to figure out what to put in the middle. Some of the feedback said that it looked too crowed to I took that into consideration when thinking of something new to put in. Someone suggested I do something like add a plate and put the spoon and fork near it. Instead I added another circle for the inside to represent a plate. I then wanted to do something interesting in the middle so I took the fork and spoon and but a gradient on them to look more like silverware. I got the idea to cross them from the pencil tutorial. I think this gave the logo the space it needed, and it got ride of repeating “HK.”

For my final I used the same tool as I did in the first draft. I thought that they were really easy to use and it gave me the look that I wanted. Overall, I’m really happy with the logo I created. I think it does a great job of showing a story of what my blog is about. I liked how my first draft turned out but after getting some advise I think this one turned out better, and like I said I’m really happy with it.

Like I’ve said in my other posts the fork and spoon came from https://pixabay.com/.

Draft Logo

For my logo, I wanted to go with something simple. I got my idea from some of the tutorials that we did because I liked they way they turned out in the end. I went with a fancy font for “Haylee’s Kitchen” because it was the same font that I used for my poster and I thought it looked good their. I used a plan font for the “HK” because I liked the way it fit with the font above. My original idea wasn’t to have the lines on the bottom, I was just going to leave it empty, but I didn’t like the way it looked so I decided to add something. The fork and spoon are there because my blog is meant for cooking and I thought it tied my idea together and people will know more of what I am talking about. I picked these colors for the background because warm colors like orange and red and supposed to make people feel hungry. I want people to be hungry so that they make the food that I suggest.

I used multiple tools from the tutorials like using the gradient tool for the background.  I used the pen tool to outline the fork and spoon from their picture that I got from https://pixabay.com/. It’s the same fork and spoon picture I used for my poster. I also used the text tool to fit my text around the circle. And the circle tool to help make the lines at the bottom, and then the scissors to make the text visible.

Overall, I really liked the way my logo turned out but I know there is always room for improvement. I didn’t seem to have any issues with Abode Illustrator, and if I had any difficulties I just went back to the tutorials and tried to figure it out on my own which worked out well.