Production Company Profiles

Overview

You have been assigned to a Production Company of 3-4 people, with whom you will workthroughout the semester. This Introductions project is a useful way to get to know each other and to assess how to make best use of the human resources in your group. You will use a camera and experiment with shooting techniques. Edit your interview in Final Cut STudio.

This project is designed to familiarize you with the use of the camera techniques. Take turns in your group handling the camera, taking different types of shots in a variety of locations and lighting conditions. Work with the zoom and try some Dutch angles. Play with the digital effects, and working in and out of focus.

You will use a variety of camera moves and techniques to interview the members of your Production Company. For the interview, each student is to interview the person who comes next after you alphabetically by last name. The person in the group whose name is alphabetically last is to interview the one whose name is alphabetically first. (e.g., A interviews B, B interviews C, C interviews A).

Guidelines

  1. Download overview sheet.
  2. Choose jobs. You may not repeat the same job as the last project.
  3. Individually write five appropriate and open-ended questions. These questions may not be repeated in your group. Collect some factual data like name, whether and where your interviewee works and what he or she does, year in school, educational and cultural background, etc. Then pursue some additional background information that has a personal or professional interest (for example, hobbies, pets, children,career aspirations, unusual past events or experiences, travel, etc.). CEO must check questions.
  4. Use the video camera and lights to interview each member of the Production Company. Instead of only the Camera Operator controlling the camera, take turns operating the camera as described above. The same goes for the lights. The idea of this assignment is to give everyone an opportunity to use all of the equipment.
  5. Find a quiet location with no background noise before you shoot.
  6. Individually capture the video interview you shot (the one where you operated the camera) to the computer and edit in Final Cut Studio. Add transitions, titles, effects and audio. Keep your time to 30 seconds.
  7. Share to GarageBand to score.

Transcripts

A transcript is a written record of your project. Before you submit your completed project for evaluation, you must go back and write down EVERY WORD THAT IS SPOKEN! You will post this transcript on the Web page for the project.