The On The
Road project is a short, two to three minute news clip highlighting someone in
our community that is is notable for something that they do or some character trait that they
possess. I worked with Bobby and
Joe to spotlight BK Radhakrishnan, a man in my
neighborhood that gives free rides to the Metro each morning.
This
assignment highlights a lot of my strengths as well as some of my
weaknesses. First, it shows my
strengths in video editing. I did
the majority of the editing for this project and most of the edits are clean
and effective. Also, I organized
the interview, wrote most of the questions, decided what b-roll to get, and did
the actual interviewing. The
interviews that we did were very useful and that was mostly due to me. Also, I developed the human condition
in this film – which was that there are still some pure, good people out there
that do things because they genuinely want to help their friends. This was shown effectively in the
video. However, the video also
shows my weaknesses. The
voiceover, which I did, is not very good.
I think having another group member do the voiceover might have been
more effective as my voice is not good for it and I mess up a lot. To continue, I can be a control freak
on projects, and do all the work.
In this case, I would not really trust anyone else to do any work so I
did all of it, which was stressful for me.
Others
have reacted really well to this project.
When we finished it, I sent the link to my parents. My dad forwarded it to our interviews,
and I thought that would be the end of it. However, a week or two later my dad relayed to me a message
from BK saying that BK had been receiving calls from relatives all over the
world telling him how proud they were of him. This made me really happy, because I know seeing our film
and getting these calls showed BK what a wonderful person he is.
There
were a few challenges in this project.
First, for our interview, Bobby and Joe arrived an hour later, with all
of our equipment. This was off
putting because we had to change the interview times, which is very
unprofessional. However, I think we had a very good final project and I’m proud
of what we created and it’s effect on the community.
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