Making My Video

I decided to make a video tour of Hunter College for High School seniors. Before I started shooting, I did the storyboard first because I wanted to make sure that I show all of the important images of the college that would appeal to high-schoolers. I wanted to make it feel like the viewer is walking through the college. So, I started with the images of the outside, included many images of the inside of Hunter, and ended with the image of the outside again. After I created the storyboard, I was waiting for a sunny day to shoot my images and I spent almost four hours shooting the footage.

The editing process was the best part because I had all the shots that I needed and I just had to put them together with Final Cut Pro and Quick Time Pro. I chose the Baha Men song “Get Ya Party On” because it has a fast beat, and would appeal to young people who want college to be fun. I chose to use a lot of pans in my video may be because I want the viewers to feel that they were looking around the school themselves. For the library shelves shot, since I didn’t have a dolly, I put the camera in my backpack and dragged it across the floor. I made sure to include shots of the pool, and I used a ripple effect to make the viewer feel that they were in the water themselves. I also used my tripod to get shots of The Hunter entrance from the terrace by extending my camera over the terrace fence. I like the editing part because I can take random images and make them into whatever I want. I have to say that I am grateful to Rashan, the network administrator at Hunter, because he helped me publish my video to the web. I think my video represented all the important things about Hunter in a way that would give prospective students a good idea of how it really is.