Documentary Video

Huff&PuffDoc from Austin Wray on Vimeo.

Phrases

Phrases:

1. Take a sledgehammer to it.

2. This is going to be a piece of cake.

3. You are being such a stick in the mud.

4. You are never going to live it down.

5. I hate to burst your bubble.

Austin Wray   

Tel T273

Script

            Story takes place at Potato Creek State park where three people, Kaitlin, Bronson and myself are fishing on their lake. Kaitlin and Bronson brought their fishing poles, bobs and bait to use to capture some fish as well as a cooler to put the fish in after they finished. While on the doc Kaitlin pipes in and says to me, “You did not bring your fishing rod and bob?”

            “No,” I said. Then Bronson comes out and says,

            “Just let him borrow either of our poles and bobs.” Then Kaitlin mentions,

            “If you want to lose your bobs that is,” speaking to Bronson and then turns to me and says “You are never going to live that down.” After Kaitlin said that I can only think about that time when we were on a family vacation in Wisconsin where my family, Kaitlin and I were fishing. That was the first day I ever fished in my life and I was wanting to show off that I could catch one real quick, but my pride got the best of me that day because that is not what went down at all. I thought to myself, "this is going to be a piece of cake."As we were fishing, we were near a lily pad patch and I threw the line out in the direction of the lily pads and I said,

            “I got a big one,” not realizing that I got my line caught on one of the lilies and I started to tug and pull and sooner than later the bob and hook broke off the line. Kaitlin then said to me,
            “I hate to burst your bubble, but why couldn't you just listen to me, not to fish over in that direction. Now you lost one of my bobs.” Later that day my pride got the best of me again when I tried to retrieve her bob by using the Jet Ski and going out and getting it myself without anyone’s help. I was wrong because I made things worse by clogging the Jet Ski with seaweed in which I had to be rescued by my family. It turned out to be a day I would never forget especially now whenever I go fishing with Kaitlin or my family. Then my mind is back at Potato Creek where I say,

            “Your right, I am never going to live that down."

Documentary Poster

Tagline: "Local Business Global Cause"

Documentary Subjects

Carolyn Rush

Carolyn is a good friend of mine's mom who works in the OIT department at Notre Dame University. She graduated from Bethel College with a degree in education and communications. As long as I have known her she has been working with phones for ND. On her free time she likes to quilt and is part of a quilting group that has gatherings once a month.

Questions:

1. What led you to work with phones at ND?
2. What are some of the things you do for the campus?
3. Did you imagine yourself landing a job at ND?
4. Has your position changed at all when you first started working at ND?
5. Have you worked anywhere else besides ND or have done anything else?
6. What are some of the requirements to work for in your position?
7. What made you study the major you chose in college but not stick with it in your career?
8. What are some of the benefits of working at ND?
9. If you could would you ever work anywhere else whether it be on ND campus or not?
10. What are some of the challenges that your position faces?

Mark Wray

Mark is a relative of mine who graduated from Purdue University down in West Lafayette with a degree in Supervision. He currently works at a steel mill known as Arcelor Mittal which is east of Chicago along the Indiana harbor. There he fulfills his job of supervising at a large plant while being a part of an important industry.

Questions: 

1. What is it like working at a steel mill? What does a typical work day look like? 

2. Have you always worked at the mill? If not where else and what was your position? 

3. What are some of the requirements that your position does? 

4. How long does it take to produce a roll of steel? 

5. How does your plant compare to other steel plants around the world and here in the US? 

6. What made you want to study supervision? 

7. What is the average price of a coil of steel and who do you produce steel for? 

8. What part of the plant do you work at and what part does it play in the creation of steel? 

9. Was your intent with your major to work at a large plant or factory and what led you to this one?

10. If you could would you work somewhere else or even at a different steel mill? 

Wyatt Smith

Wyatt is my pastor at county line brethren church. He graduated from Bethel College and has preached at his previous home down in Arkansas and now preaches here in Lakeville, IN. He is a good mentor to me as well as others.

Questions:

1. Where all have you preached in your lifetime?
2. Besides preaching is there any outside work that you do such as other jobs?
3. Is there volunteer or community work that you do? If so what?
4. Would you say that your mentoring has had an impact on the people you mentored too?
5. Have you ever worked with youth groups? If so What were some of the activities you did?
6. What is your vision or future in terms of the churches growth?
7. What are some of the things that you want people to hear or get across in your sermons?
8. How has a major in this field impacted your life and the others that you teach?
9. Do you see yourself staying here? what does the future look like for you?
10. What leads you to want to be a pastor?  

 

  

Storyboard and Shot Angles

Emotion Video

Distraction from Austin Wray on Vimeo.

Emotional Photos

I did ten photos on what I find to believe represents the emotion of distraction or that may be distracting to the eye when looked at.

Music Video Analysis

I chose to do the music video from Dragonforce which is a British power metal band. In this video there were a lot of visual tools used. First off the camera is in an extreme close up of the drummer's sticks hitting the drum then the shot moves over to the singer keeping the same extreme close up shot. The shot then moves out to a medium shot of the other band members and then moves to a close up shot of the singer where only his shoulders and his face are seen helping us to get a clear expression from his face and to give the effect he is the main guy cause the camera is focused in on him. Throughout most of the video the shot is kept at a medium shot in order to have clear balance between the subjects and their environment. Later the camera shot moves out to the wide shot to get the whole band in the frame as well as their environment that they are playing in which appears to be a land being torn apart by alien spacecraft. You also see the use of eye line where the band members begin to look up in the sky and then in the next frames you see the spacecrafts that they were looking at in the previous shot. There are also a few spots where you get a low angle shot but most of the shots are eye level. Some of the visual components that were noticeable were a mix between deep and flat space, good use of warm reds and orange which helps to support the songs fast and urgent pace and can also be seen as causing friction. Later on when the two main guitar players go against each other in a video game of themselves playing their solos you get the sense of tension between the two players and to help recognize that tension you see them each playing their guitars on top of large rocks with a canyon separating them. Use of split screen within the music video also creates a line between the two players which helps create tension and show that they are competing to see who plays their solos better. Shot within shot is also used to get a close up of guitar player strumming guitar while at the same time you see the whole person as well. Finally the overall tone of the video appeared to have a low key to mid key where the shots had some shadow but it was not too dark that you could not tell what was going on. 

Video Ideas

Music Video - For the music video what I had in mind would be to use my abilities with the trumpet and create a music video where the musician would put a spell on some people by playing the trumpet. Then the musician uses the trumpet to play mind tricks on some people where they continue to keep hearing things when in reality it turns out to be their alarm clock in the end that was creating the noise telling them to get up.

 

Tagline - What's Making That Noise?

 Documentary Video - For the documentary video I think it would be cool to visit a local news station and interview someone who works with editing and creating as well as analyzing social media sites for that particular news station and what sort of things that they do to get ideas of what we as students could possibly look into for future endeavors. I have a professor that I could possibly talk to who works at WSBT and is their digital content manager so we may be able to have access to some of the things that he does for the station. 

Tagline - Creating the Truth is Believing. 

Narrative Video - For the narrative I decided to take the route of doing a non-fiction video of where we have come in terms of communication. From the strings tied to the cups to communicating via online through social media and Skype I think it would be cool to tell the story of communication because it is vital not just in our society but around the world and has been a vital key to our survival. With a creative mind and the technology that all of us possesses it should be very possible to create an informational and inspiring narrative.

Tagline - Connecting the World Over the Years.

Self Portrait and Bio

Austin Wray

Bio:

Hi, my name is Austin Wray I am currently a Junior at IUSB with a major in Integrated New Media Studies and am planning on getting a minor in Informatics. Some of my favorite movies consists of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Star Wars, Godzilla series, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Carribean and Star Trek sagas. My number one favorite TV show is Doctor Who. Some video games that I like to play are Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda, Mario, fighting games, medieval fantasy games and shooters. If I could make any kind of media it would probably be sci-fi, fantasy genre video games where it would feel real to the player and make them feel like they are actually in the game kind of like in the movie Tron. Overall I want to be able to learn about Premiere and After Effects to be able to make and edit videos and create animations for whatever the future holds for me.

Thank You,

Austin wray