I have really enjoyed taking COM 210 and creating this blog. My favorite project during the semester was the final video project because I’ve always wanted to learn how to create videos in a professional program like Adobe Premiere and be able to do special effects and transitions like we were taught to do. Also, this was my favorite because I had a lot of fun filming the videos at one of my favorite events that my sorority puts on. I was proud that I could capture and share with others about this event that is so fun and means a lot to me and others. I learned how to work with Premiere in the tutorials and discovered tools and gained skills in Premiere. I also had a lot of fun making the tutorials. I also enjoyed using those tools in my final video project on my own. I enjoyed all the programs we worked with, but Adobe Premiere was my favorite because there was so much to do with the program to make my project creative and interesting. The skills I learned in this course are how to manage my time well, organize my materials on a computer well, and how to use and create projects with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, and Premiere. I feel as if I can use all these skills and programs in the future at a potential job or in my own free time. I will be taking more COM classes that most likely will have more projects and presentations where I can use these programs effectively. The skills like how to manage my time well and organization will help with any potential career I may have in the future. I do not know of any skills that I wish I had learned but did not learn in this course. I found the adobe website and YouTube were helpful resources to use in the course because they would have addition tutorial videos available if I needed more help or wanted to learn more tools in a program. Thank you so much for following this blog throughout this semester. I had so much fun learning and creating the projects that I did, and I hope to continue to practice and strengthen my skills in Adobe programs to create more media projects.

For this project, I decided to capture one of my sorority, Gamma Phi Beta’s philanthropy events called Moonball. I took several clips from different angles during the basketball tournament, interviewed a sorority member, and recorded a voice-over of me explaining a little bit of the event.

After getting feedback from peers and doing some self-reflection on my own work after my draft video, I had a couple of things I wanted to do in my final draft. Firstly, I wanted to change my background music to something more fitting with my draft. I will then add audio transitions to the music. I also wanted to fix my video transitions, so it is smoother and less choppy.

The first step of my editing process was to watch through all the video recordings I took and select the ones with the most interesting or active moments. I then wrote out what I wanted to say and recorded it on my smartphone. My description was not as long as my video, so I added music to play throughout the video. The music is from Mus Open called “Mangore Maxixe” by Agustin Barrios Mangore. I adjusted the music sound level so that it was louder when I wasn’t talking and quieter when I was talking. I also added transitions to the beginning and end of the video with an effect called exponential fade, so it was a smooth audio transition.

Next, I added some effects in my video transitions. I first added a title and added a fading transition called cross-dissolve to the slide. I also added an effect called dip to black to the end text that says thanks for watching to add a smooth ending. On the second to last video clip, I added the effect of zooming in as the video plays using the scale tool. I wanted to do this because you can closely see the banner that says building strong girls and the jump ball toss. The sun rays were also a nice touch so I wanted it to be emphasized. I added another transition between two clips called page peel. I also used cross dissolve, and slide for other transition so that all the clips had a transition.

The significance of the elements in my design are it clearly shows what the event is about and how many people participate in the event. It also shows the impact of our philanthropy has on the community as well as our sorority. It hopefully inspires more to participate or learn more about Girls on the Run and what impacts that has on young girls.

Overall, I think my final video shows my skills of premiere and what my sororities philanthropy is all about. I think the background music fits in well because it’s a happy upbeat tune which is what the event is about. The event is uplifting and encouraging to see that many people in our college town care about young girls in the pullman community.

Materials: I found the music from Mus Open called “Mangore Maxixe” by Agustin Barrios Mangore https://musopen.org/music/13036-maxixe/