Hello friends! Welcome back to the Millennial Minority. Today I am very excited to present the first individual to be featured on my site! Over the past few weeks I have filmed and interviewed one of my best friends at Rutgers. I don’t want to give too many details about her because I feel that the video will do just that. However, I’ll just add a short description.
This is Vanessa Reina, a second year student at Rutgers and one of my co-workers. Vanessa lives in New Jersey but is from Colombian and El Salvador. The video is based on her love for the outdoors and her interest in people and perceptions on life. I hope you guys enjoy it!
As stated before, I filmed this video throughout a span of two weeks. For the most part, I spend a lot of time with Vanessa so I decided to carry my camera around and film her whenever I could. However, we decided a walk through the Livingston campus preserve was a great way of capturing her enjoyment of the outdoors. We also took the time out to film her interview at the preserve since it felt fitting to have her there.
I utilized my DSLR camera ( a Nikon D3300 that I typically use for photography) and worked with my 35mm lens. I really enjoy shooting in 35mm because it is the go-to in film. I also use it for my photography because it allows me to capture landscapes as well as close ups with a “blur” effect (here is an example that was shot over the course of our hike)
In order to capture Vanessa’s voice, I realized I needed some sort of microphone to attach to her. However, I do not own that type of technology and so I decided to use a little cheaper method that I picked up in high school when I used to film movies. I took my iPhone and recorded her through that ( I had her place it in her pocket). During editing, I simply used that recording and matched it up to the film. It was very tedious, but eventually I lined it up perfectly.
Since I own a Macbook Pro, I decided to use iMovie as my go to film editing software since it was easily accessible. I also used the Free Music Archive site to get music for the film. The entire editing process lasted around 5 hours. The first hour was spent coming up with an intro to the film which I am very proud of. Next, I took time out to analyze the interview (which was 20 minutes long). I picked it apart and ended up with around 4 or 5 minutes of footage that I wanted to use for the final draft. Finally, I spent some time looking for songs that I wanted to add to the video to make it lively. Even though it may sound like a long time, I really enjoyed the editing process and the time actually flew by believe it or not. What you see above is the final draft of my entire project. I hope you guys enjoy it and thank you for taking the time out to read this blog post! See y’all soon with more posts!
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