Editing in After Effects

In After Effects I created my intro sequence, the end credits and a couple of small animations that were inspired by the music video shown in the lecture that made use of still frame images but had a dynamic 3D element to it.

Editing in Avid

In Avid Media Composer I worked at getting the segments of interview that had valid content that I wanted to use to reinforce my point. The difficult part was keeping the length to under five minutes. I also wanted to try and alternate between my two interviewees instead of having one of them talk continuously. I had to trim parts of their sentences to reduce time and remove stutters or errors.

Capturing

I captured my video off the tape today. I first logged them under separate interviews and then under segments of conversation that I thought that I could use.  

Filming continued

I went and got permission from the cafe "Midnight Espresso" to do some filming on their property showing coffee being made. These shots can be played while the interviews talk over the top to give the documentary some action shots to break up the fairly static feel of the interviews.

Filming the interviews

The Interviewees were baristas from different coffee shops near the law campus of Victoria university. I asked them a set of questions and also got them to incorporate the questions that I had asked into their answers so that I could create a clean narrative for the documentary without switching from interviewer to interviewee. 

Planning

For my video I wanted to give it a black and white look that will fit with the subject matter.

Concept

The theme for my video is student coffee addiction but I am looking at it 

from the point of view from the baristas making and serving the 

beverages. I want to explore the opinions of the people who have to put 

up with the legions of students buying coffee from them every day. Can 

they identify a customer that is a student as opposed to a non-student? Do 

they get sick and tired of serving the same students day in and day out? 

Do the students that they serve buy their coffee at a specific time of the 

day or even at a certain time in the year?  

 

I want to explore the ideas that there is an equal number of students 

buying coffee as there are non-students and that they only get their coffee 

to take away rather than have it at a café because of the hectic pace of 

the student lifestyle. These trends are what I want to look into for the 

documentary. I especially want to talk about how the coffee drinking habits 

of students differ from everyone else.  

 

I want to see if there is any identifiable difference between a student 

coffee drinker compared to a non-student as viewed by the barista serving 

them. 

The webpage

I have titled my movie "Otari Safari" because of the documentary footage style that it has with the brown tone. 

This is the link for the website:

http://www.designsupernova.com/otari.html