York is a beautiful city full of fun things to do. Check out this travel vlog and find out all about what the city has to offer!
And here’s a shorter version created just for Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQx3WKDcl7/
Reflective Evaluation of the Travel Vlog:
The aim of this task was to work as a team in order to make a travel vlog that presented York as a desirable place for young people to visit. This meant making it engaging through fun visuals and sound and finding interesting locations to include in order to appeal to a younger target audience.
Working as a team was a very important aspect of this task as, after assigning individual roles to each person, everybody had to focus on their own roles while ensuring that the whole piece came together well. This provided some difficult challenges to overcome as there were some disagreements over aspects such as the script and how it was to be delivered. However, we managed to overcome this challenge by doing several takes of lines that we disagreed on and deciding which one turned out better afterwards. This approach not only gave us better footage, but we managed to gather more footage to choose from, making the edit much easier in the end.
My role in this particular production was the sound technician, which also resulted in some major difficulties. For example, as much of the shooting took place outside, wind interference really affected the sound. Although I did my best to combat this, through using a windshield and a boom pole to get the microphone as close to the presenter as possible, it was still very much an issue. While trying to eradicate this sound with effects in post- production was a possibility, ‘the effect this has on the foreground sound has to be considered’ (Holman, 2010) and it would have affected the sound of the presenter too much in this case. As such, this is definitely an aspect of the video that can be improved upon and something I will consider in all future projects.
Another important process in the development of this video was drawing up detailed risk assessments for each location. ‘Thinking through what you are going to do and how you are going to do it will focus your mind on accidents which could happen’ (Bamford, 2012) so it was important that we got them right. It did take time to make them as detailed as possible, but this process only taught me what I need to include in the future.
References:
Bamford, N. (2012) Directing Television: A Professional Survival Guide. London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. p. 60
Holman, T. (2010) Sound for Film and Television. 3rd ed. Burlington, Elsevier Inc. p. 34
