In-Depth Intro Post

Ronan Dickson

Intro blog post

2021/01/06

For my in-depth project this year, I am going to be working on video editing. I chose video editing because it’s something that I’ve been doing for the last few months. I really enjoy editing videos because I find it very satisfying to put together a video and I love to watch the videos after, especially if it’s a good video that I spent lots of time on. So far most of my experience with video editing has been with mountain bikes because that’s what I love to do, and I find that mountain biking videos generally come out better because it’s a fast-paced video with cool features and usually nice forest and mountain scenery to go along with it. This year I want to try making some other videos as well especially because I can’t ride a bike for a long time now and to gain experience working with other kinds of videos.

By the end of this project, I should get a general knowledge of how to edit videos, figure out what the easiest way for me to make videos is and figure out how to hook people in with my videos. I will try working on different kinds of videos such as compilations and stories and with different content, not just bikes. I want to learn a bit about how I can get my videos out there a bit more and how to make videos that people would go out of their ways to watch, because why should people watch it? It’s 5 minutes out of their day so it has to be something interesting that will hook them in as they are watching it and through the title and thumbnail.

Over the in-depth project, I will be posting the videos that I make on YouTube. At the end of the project, I will compare the views, new subscribers, and watch hours that the videos got in their first 28 days. Hopefully, by doing this I will be able to answer the question of what kind of videos people want to see on YouTube and what you should be posting as a new creator on YouTube. I also want to try and find some tips and tricks you can use if you’re making your first video because I know that would have been helpful to me when I was making my first video instead of just sitting there, trying to figure out what to do with these videos and how to add music to my video. I will also talk about how hard it is to make videos and how long it will take after I finished the project.

I will do this by spending the first two weeks learning about video editing and getting used to it. Then in the next four weeks, I will learn about getting photos and videos and spend a lot of time practicing by taking at least 75 photos/ videos. My cast is only on for six weeks so after that I should be able to do more, start skiing with a wrist brace and everything else will get much easier. First, I will make a nature video and then I will make a skiing video in those four weeks. I’m hoping that by then I can ride a bike by then and I will make two mountain biking videos in the next four weeks.

I am going to be graded on five videos that I make. The four videos that I just mentioned will be graded out of 20; 8 points for the interest of the video because I think that is the most important thing, 6 points for the quality of the video meaning that the transitions are all clean, everything is in a part of the video that makes sense and that there are no glitches in the video, 4 points for the choice of visual media meaning that the photos and videos are good quality and it’s clear why I chose what I did, 2 points for the audio meaning that the audio choice makes sense, it’s clear and it works well in the video.

For the final challenge, my mentor is going to give me a bunch of videos of their choice and they are going to give me an amount of time like an hour or two to make something out of them. The final challenge is going to be marked out of 40 because it will prove that I have learned from the four months with my mentor, but I think that the other videos are more important because, in a real-life situation, it would not be like this. I will have the same criteria for this challenge as for the other four videos, however, this challenge will be worth twice as much overall as a single video or worth half as much as all the other videos combined. How this is going to work is, my mentor will choose some videos for me to work with and they can be completely random. With these videos I will have to make the best video that I can within the time limit then when the time is up, I will stop. My mentor will then watch the video and decide how well I did with the task.

I will be posting all of my videos on YouTube and my blog to get feedback as well as from my mentor. On my bi-weekly blog posts later in the year, I will also be including a short reflection. In the reflection, I will summarize what I learned in the last two weeks, what I did well on in the last two weeks, and what I will try to improve on in the coming two weeks. I will do a blog post after the four weeks where I’m practicing taking photos and videos to share some photos and videos and a short summary. I will do a small blog post after my celebration ride to share some photos and videos and do a very brief recap of the last few months. Finally, I will make a full recap of my in-depth project on a website and I’ll be posting that on my blog a couple of weeks after the celebration.

 

 

 

 

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