Well, I have finally completed the interview from my last post with additional footage and everything. This additional footage, called B-Roll, is video that my partner shot around Mr. Shank's house before, during, and after the interview. The big lesson from our B-Roll experience is to ALWAYS CHECK EQUIPMENT BEFOREHAND. Our camera ran out of battery after doing most of the interview, so we had get all the B-Roll on a phone. It turned put surprisingly well, but it was still shakier than would be ideal. Also, more tragically, we lost an great part of the interview because of the battery issue. Mr. Shank told an epic story about how the police raided his house and threatened to arrest him for possessing adult images (the images, of course, being naked people in his paintings). Unfortunately, the story was cut off due to battery problems, and isn't in the final interview. On.a happier note, I got to practice putting the B-Roll with the interview itself. Mr. Goble taught us how to use FinalCutPro to overlay one video over another so that you can show images from one while keeping the audio from the other. Furthermore, we learned about smoothly going from one B-Roll video to another without cutting back to the interview, which would be choppy, and we learned about using video sequences (like the one from my Camera Shooting and Final Cut Pro Editing post) to show the B-Roll in a logical way. Unfortunately, I was very rushed toward the end to finish to final interview, so the end product is not quite what I hoped for. I tried my best to use the B-Roll to show what Mr. Shank was talking about and to have each shot make sense with relation to the last shot, with mixed success. I had a particularly hard time trying to find copyright-free images of the Stonewall Riots, so the images I could find aren't the ideal reoslution. On the other hand, I still enjoyed practicing using the images to show, rather than tell, the Mr. Shank's story. You can see the final Humans of Ladue video here.
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