My favorite project was our final premiere project. The reasoning behind that is because I think I learned the most through doing this project. I realized what is a quality film instead of just posting a video. I started off by doing my big and little reveal videos all edited together, with photos of my family in Alpha Chi Omega included. After turning in my draft though, I came to the realization that those videos were not high enough quality to be able to be put on YouTube without being fuzzy. Then, I decided to redo it by taking time lapses of myself writing out an explanation of why I am grateful that I have gotten to be a part of Alpha Chi Omega and putting voice memos behind it saying the words out loud and putting a song in the back. I feel like I learned a lot not only about video editing by doing this, but also life lessons. What matters is that you try your hardest and give a quality product. Even though it took a lot of extra work doing a whole new video and writing a whole new essay portion, I wanted to turn in my best work possible. I also learned a lot of skills while using adobe premiere, I feel like video editing skills will help me out a lot in other aspects of life as well. I am not exactly sure what I want to do with my future. I think I want to be a teacher, and if I am I think my video editing skills will definitely help me if I want to do cool video presentations for my class. I feel like there aren’t any other skills I could have learned, all the tutorials and each unit I truly felt taught me everything I needed to know about multimedia creation. I found the reading resources that were put on the com 210 WordPress page very helpful. Anytime I had issues with anything, I would just look at the course readings and the videos and my questions were answered. I also found the quizzes helpful because it made me take notes on the assigned readings then made me realize what I knew or didn’t know after getting the quiz results back. I really do feel like I learned so much about time management and work ethic through taking this course and I am extremely grateful for that. Thank you COM 210 for an awesome semester.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ziwaTFZZs&feature=youtu.be

For my premiere final project, I actually decided to change my topic after submitting my draft. For some reason, after uploading my draft to YouTube it was extremely blurry, even though in premiere it did not really seem like it. I realized the video footage probably was not high enough quality because of the way it was filmed for my big little reveals. So instead, I decided to tell them story of the impact being a part of Alpha Chi Omega has had on me. I thought this was fitting especially since this is our last project. I took time lapses of myself writing it out. Every other take I would write in purple and would switch it off with black to make it a little more fun. I wrote on lined paper on my white desk with a lamp shining down on the paper to make it look really bright. I really like the way my footage ended up turning out. I filmed it, which was kind of difficult while I was writing. It was a little harder too because I was using my left hand to film, but one of the readings told us to hold our filming arm in close to our chest with our elbows folded in, so that is what I did and it made it a little easier. As for the editing aspect of things, there are a lot of new skills I learned while putting together this video. I started off with putting all of my footage together in a folder on my desktop, which I then imported into my project. This made it easier to find everything and put it all together. When putting it all together, my photos would be super weirdly zoomed in and stuff. I would fix that by using the scale tool. Some of my videos were smaller than others so I would use scale for those too. Since I would have to make those ones larger, I then would use the tool unsharp mask and would drag it onto my videos. The unsharp tool was super helpful since you can customize it to the amount you need to. Then I added my voice memos that I took of myself saying aloud what my little notes said. I added the images of each note so that I could make them slightly longer than my voice memos. I also added the song Warm Thoughts by Flume, and made it quieter than my voice memos by using the tool audio gain. I am really proud of the outcome of this project and feel like I have come a long way with my creation abilities.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/hGN0UlcsXlQ

For my premiere project, I decided to make a video edit of when I received my big and when I received my little. My Greek family at WSU have become some of my very best friends and I am so lucky to have them, that is why I thought this would be a perfect topic for my last project. I started off by making a folder on my desktop called com 210 final project. Then, when I began my project, I imported that folder. Within the folder, it consisted of a video of both of my big little reveals, photos of my Greek family after each reveal, and photos of us doing fun things. I added the song “Warm Thoughts” by Flume as the background music by going under file then import, then I scrolled down to music and retrieved the file from my iTunes account. When I would put my photos and videos into the sequence, I would use the same method we learned about in our premiere tutorials. I would double click either a photo or a video, then it would show up in the left hand corner of the screen. Then, I would drag it down without audio to my time line. For photos, I would make sure they were only two seconds before dragging them down. I also used the text tool a lot to describe each video and photos and for the credits at the end. I would have to make the box around the font smaller because every time I would type something one letter of a word would take up the entire screen. I used it to show when I was getting my big, when I was getting my little, and to explain the photos of us spending quality time together. I am struggling to make the photos look clearer in my video edit, they are kind of blurry right now and I do not know how to fix that. I tried using scale and position because every time I would add a photo to the sequence, it would pop up super zoomed in for some reason. As I said before, I would use scale and position to center them and show the whole photo, but now after posting it to YouTube they look kind of weird and fuzzy. For my final draft, I will make sure this is not a problem.

link to my storyboard: https://youtu.be/ds0ej5BljjI

I will be doing my premiere project on big/little reveal! I will further edit all of the pictures and videos together for my rough draft by adding transitions, editing the photos, and more.

Timestamp: at 0.0 is where I will begin my story with a video of me receiving my big.

Visual: video of me receiving my big.

Timestamp: After video of me receiving my big, I will show photos of me and my Greek family after the reveal.

Visual: photos of my grand big, big and I

Timestamp: after the photos of my g-big, big, and I, I will put in the video of me receiving my little.

Visual: video of me receiving my little

Timestamp: after that video is over, put in pictures of my grand big, little, and I

AUDIO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE VIDEO: Warm Thoughts by Flume

• tutorial 1 (unedited): https://youtu.be/rQ3EK5H4KFo
• tutorial 1 (edited): https://youtu.be/khAybeCwmTI
• tutorial 2: https://youtu.be/zBEo2_-IFLw

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actual link: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audio-story-final-mixdown

For this project, I decided to create an interview type project. What inspired me to go with the interview route was the tutorial we did during the audition tutorials for class. The interview I did relates to my topic because I think it is important to showcase not only why I joined Alpha Chi Omega, but why other girls did too. I am living in the house for my second semester this year and my room mate is my best friend, Sidney. I decided to interview her because while there are similarities as to the reason why we both decided to join Alpha Chi Omega, there are differences as well. That is part of what I think is so empowering about our house. We are a diverse group of women, but we all come together because of our core values. All across the country, Alpha Chi Omega’s core values are academic interest, character, financial responsibility, leadership ability, and personal development. While we all may have our differences (as any large group of women will), we all come together because these values are extremely important to us all. We have been taught to embrace our differences and love each other unconditionally because we are all there for the same reason. How I collected elements and created them was by using the voice memo app on my phone. I first recorded me explaining that I was going to tell why I joined Alpha Chi Omega. Then, I recorded myself explaining my reasoning. I re-recorded myself explaining my reasoning for my final draft because the quality did not sound as good as I had wanted it to be. Next, I introduced Sidney and said that she was going to say why she joined Alpha Chi Omega. I also re-recorded myself saying this as well for the same reasoning. Lastly, I recorded myself explaining how we all joined the house for our different reasons, but it all comes down to the fact that we all value the same things and that is why it is so special. I re-recorded myself saying this for the final draft as well and made sure to make myself sound more clear than I felt I sounded the first time. In finishing up my final draft, I deleted the three audio recordings that I felt could have sounded better and replaced it with the new ones. Then, I made sure they were all the same volumes, so that it would flow better. Lastly, I then exported it as a new mp3 and uploaded my final draft to SoundCloud! I am proud of my final project and am very glad I have gotten to share my experiences in Greek Life to you all!

actual SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audio-story-draft-mixdown

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For this project, I decided to create an interview type project. What inspired me to go with the interview route was the tutorial we did during the audition tutorials for class. The interview I did relates to my topic because I think it is important to showcase not only why I joined Alpha Chi Omega, but why other girls did too. I am living in the house for my second semester this year and my room mate is my best friend, Sidney. I decided to interview her because while there are similarities as to the reason why we both decided to join Alpha Chi Omega, there are differences as well. That is part of what I think is so empowering about our house. We are a diverse group of women, but we all come together because of our core values. All across the country, Alpha Chi Omega’s core values are academic interest, character, financial responsibility, leadership ability, and personal development. While we all may have our differences (as any large group of women will), we all come together because these values are extremely important to us all. We have been taught to embrace our differences and love each other unconditionally because we are all there for the same reason. How I collected elements and created them was by using the voice memo app on my phone. I first recorded me explaining that I was going to tell why I joined Alpha Chi Omega. Then, I recorded myself explaining my reasoning. Next, I introduced Sidney and said that she was going to say why she joined Alpha Chi Omega. Lastly, I recorded myself explaining how we all joined the house for our different reasons, but it all comes down to the fact that we all value the same things and that is why it is so special. After I finished up all of these audio recordings, I messaged them to my laptop. Then, I saved them to my desktop and put them together in audition. I created a new multitrack mixdown to edit it all together. Since each memo was on my desktop, I would drag them into track 1, then put them in the right order and edited out the unnecessary silences. I am glad I have gotten to share my experiences in Greek Life to you all!

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actual link: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/raw-audio-footage-mixdown

My idea for this project is to share why I joined Alpha Chi Omega. I also interviewed my best friend and roommate, Sidney.

Counting out of order tutorial:

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URL: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audition-tutorial-1-mixdown

Counting put into order tutorial:

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URL: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audition-tutorial-1-in-order-mixdown

Editing an interview tutorial:

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URL: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audtition-tutorial-2-mixdown

Vox pop tutorial:

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URL: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard/audition-tutorials-3-mixdown

Soundcloud profile: https://soundcloud.com/stephhilliard