video editing

Life at UMW

Jess

Life at UMW from Jessica Reingold on Vimeo.

For the course Communications 310: Social Media, I worked on a viral video project called “Life at UMW.” The goal for this project was to work with a group to create a video about life at the University of Mary Washington and try to spread it around the internet as much as we could. The project also included a point system where we got points for shares/retweets/reblogs, likes, and views that way we could compare our success with our classmates’ groups. For this project I filmed parts of the video, interviewed students for sound bites, and edited the video.

2015 UMW Multicultural Fair Teaser

Jess

For the course Communications 310: Social Media, I worked on the social media campaign for UMW’s Multicultural Center’s event, the UMW Multicultural Fair. UMW’s Annual Multicultural Fair is one of spring semester’s highlights on campus and in the Fredericksburg community. 2015 marks the 25th annual Multicultural Fair, and so along with a team, I wanted to get everyone on campus and in the community excited about the fair. I made this teaser video as part of the social media campaign for the fair, and we shared it across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sexuality in Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou GIF Set

Jess
  • Ju Dou GIF 1
  • Ju Dou GIF 2
  • Ju Dou GIF 3
  • Ju Dou GIF 4

In History 300AA: Chinese History Through Cinema, we had to create a GIF set to accompany an analysis of two Chinese films we had watched in class. I chose to analyze, and compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in the 1987 film Red Sorghum and the 1990 film Ju Dou. The GIF set is a scene in Ju Dou where Ju Dou persuades Tianqing to have an affair with her. To create the GIF set, I imported film into Adobe Premiere to trim it down to that one scene. After that, I imported the various video clips into Adobe Photoshop as layers, changed the speed of the frames, and saved the segments as GIFs.

The following is a PDF of my thesis paper that corresponds with the GIF set above.

The Theme of Sexuality: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and Ju Dou

 

Now You’re in the Game GIF Set

Jess

For the GIF assignment, for Computer Science 106: Digital Storytelling, I summarized Season 1, Episode 10: The Cost of The Wire. I picked five scenes that had what I felt were either crucial moments, and/or crucial lines. To create the GIF set, I imported the episode into Adobe Premiere to trim down the episodes into the scenes I wanted to use to to make GIFs. I also added in the lines as text on the video clips. After that, I imported the various video clips into Adobe Photoshop as layers, changed the speed of the frames, and saved the segments as GIFs.

Views Are My Own: Digital Identity

Jess

For the final project for the course History 471D: History of the Information Age, my group and I  decided to make a documentary about digital identities. We interviewed UMW students and staff in order to see what people at UMW think a digital identity is and how their digital identity may differ from their “offline” identity. We conducted twelve interviews that involved about eight questions:

  1. What is a digital identity?
  2. How many different digital identities do you have? [if more than 1 continue to question [if only 1, go to question 5.]
  1. Which digital identity is your least favorite?
  2. Which digital identity is your favorite?
  3. What is your digital identity (your favorite one) like? How would you describe it/them?
  4. On a scale of 1-5, 5 being the same person to your real identity(personality) how similar is your digital identity to you?
  5. Why do you make your digital identity this way?
  6. Which do you prefer? Your digital identity or your in person identity?

Our questions turned out to be more like guide lines instead of strict questions, however, since the interviewees tended to answer more than question (without knowing) within their answers. Once we had conducted our interviews, we edited the documentary together using iMovie and Final Cut Pro in the Media Lab in the ITCC (Information & Technology Convergence Center) at UMW. Since we had twelve interviews to go through, we could not use everyone’s answer for every question, so we picked the most unique or common answers for the final version of the documentary. We took on quite an ambitious task, and after about seven to eight hours of editing, it turned out great! We are very happy with the final product, and although the video is already sixteen minutes long, it could have been much longer.

We want to also thank Andy Rush in DTLT (Division of Teaching and Learning Technology) very much for letting us use all of the production equipment including a light kit, a lapel microphone, a camcorder, a DSLR camera, and a green screen.

Tools Used

iMovie

Final Cut Pro

QuickTime

YouTube

Google Drive-Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet

Doodle Poll

Canon HD Camcorder

Canon EOS Rebel T5 DSLR Camera

2 Tripods

Green Screen

3 LED Film Production Lights

Sennheiser Lapel Microphone

BenSound Royalty Free Music

Incompetech Royalty Free Music

 

The Divergent Games

Jess

This video was created for the Computer Science 106: Digital Storytelling course assignment Movie Trailer Mashup. I decided to mashup the Divergent trailer and the Hunger Games trailer because both movies take place in a dystopian future world and both have lead female characters.

To make this mashup trailer, I dowloaded both the Divergent and Hunger Games trailers from Youtube and imported them into iMovie. Next, I broke up the trailers into the scenes they featured from the movies, and tried to find similar scenes between the two trailers. I put the similar scenes together and carefully ordered them to make sure a plot line somewhat flowed through the new mashup trailer. I also wanted some of the dialogue so I made sure to increase the volume on the scenes with dialogue I thought was relevant to the mashup and mute the scenes that did not have relevant dialogue. I found a royalty free song on Incompetech to add to almost the entire trailer. In the very beginning I simply copied part of the background music from the Divergent trailer and added it to the Hunger Games scene before bringing in my royalty free track. I kept the black transitions from the original trailers and added in transitions between the scenes that did not have them. I also added in a fake release date scene and a mashup logo for my movie, The Divergent Games.