Final

When I heard that we had to do a 30 second video I had no idea what I wanted to film. Then when Prof. Sanders suggested watching commercials to see how they film them, I knew a commercial would fit perfectly. I didn't want my commercial to actually sell a product though, instead I wanted it to be something silly that others would watch and say "Ha as if I'd buy that!" Then it hit me...literally it fell off of my shelf and hit me in the shoulder...a shoe box. Thus my commercial Box Fo' Shoes was born.
I spent the next day writing up my story board, which I had actually confused with writing a script...
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...with that done all I needed was the equipment and some fools to act for me. The equipment took a few tries to get, and when it turned out that I didn't have any film for the camera, I ended up using only the IMM buildings tripod and my Coolpix still camera. As for finding an actor/actress, my friend Sam foolishly volunteered early. She was confused by some of the shot's I asked of her, but we had a good time filming it.

With the scenes filmed all we needed was 'the voice'. My friend Delysha's voice was perfect, and after a few practice runs we had her speak into the Coolpix, adding the narrator's pitch.

In editing I soon realized I had a problem or two. Though the sound quality wasn't bad there was no way I could make it better, as well the quality of video differed from the changing light source throughout the video's of Sam.


Still I think in the end it came out pretty well. I did some touch ups on color, and carefully only used the best sounding recordings, and thus Box Fo' Shoes was ready.
In the end I think the project came out pretty well. This was roughly the idea I had in mind when I pictured Box Fo' Shoes, and I really think Sam and Delysha helped portray the idea of an old commercial. I think the sound and video qualities could have been better, and maybe a nice light music in the background, but I had no way to legally place music onto this video. In the end all I can really say was that it was fun.