Video profile script - video
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For a first attempt at creating a video profile, my shot at making a profile that made me come across as how I wanted to, including the creative elements, was okay. The lighting has worked well, and so have the shots. The shots used are simple and affective in what I am trying to get across, remaining more professional than if I had experimented.
While for a first attempt it is satisfactory, there can be many critiques made about the video, and it is a prime example of needed experience – essentially, I should have gotten a lot more footage than I did. It was a struggle to work around a skimp of 2 minutes of footage as in editing terms, it was extremely difficult to edit round.
I should have learnt from my past experience working on a project in Final Cut Pro on a video intensive course, where my lack of footage remained an issue in the back of my mind, but I was able to work around the failure to have captured all the shots I needed on that occasion, but not here.
Secondly, my eye line is not correct. This makes the viewer feel as if I am not interested in what I am doing; what I am saying, and distances those watching and myself from the importance of what I am trying to get across.
Music is another key factor to the video profile. In the intervals of me not speaking, and in particular the start, music would have been a vital source for creating mood and an atmosphere, adding to my words.
The outtakes were remarked as feeling “out of place”. Where I come across as “professional” in my speech, the outtakes make the whole profile seem as if I had been joking in my seriousness. The tonal change of the profile was not needed, and worked a lot better where it had been kept to a professional standard
However, apart from the simplistic shots in which I directed, and the lighting (when seen on a computer screen, blown up, it looks slightly yellow), there are other positive factors of my video profile.
Being split into three segments created an easy-to-follow profile and kept the viewer interested. The three parts were presented not as questions, but as sentences continuing from what I had said, keeping the viewer forever involved with what I had to say.
The beginning where I had used a Final Cut Pro credit template had been commented on as “a template of a professional standard”, and set up the profile for being of “high quality”.
Overall, the experience of making my own video profile, editing and finalising, has been an eye opener. It reminded me of the basics of Final Cut Pro which I had learnt previously, and also taught me that more footage is better. Always.
