For the instagram story task I was placed into a group with three other people and we had to create, produce and edit a story idea that was between 50-60 seconds long that could be featured on an instagram story post.
As a group we decided to base our story on hobbies and interest as the overall topic and agreed as a group that we would produce the story on cheerleading as one of out group members is involved with the cheerleading society. During the planning process we decided that we would open it with introducing the main person who would be speaking throughout the video and who would be providing us with an insight of the sport and who could also provide us with footage of the routines that they have performed in competitions. Due to this person also being part of our group we were able to gain footage from the recent competitions that they have been entered in, providing us with more material to include in our production.
I was given the role of sound and camera for this task, giving me the responsibility of ensuring that all mics we used were recording and set up correctly and wouldn’t stop us from losing audio. I also had to ensure that the camera was set up properly and that the footage was captured and didn’t look over exposed with the lighting, this would require me to adjust the lighting in the room by changing the natural lighting that was coming through the windows.
When we finished filming and was preparing to edit the footage we decided that we would base the structure of the production like an interview with on of the cheerleaders with several parts being voice overs while we have the footage of the routines being performed, some during the competitions and some being just her showing the routines that they have performed and practised since the year began. We gained inspiration for the story structure based of several promotion stories that are being shown on instagram as paid advertisements.