For my first plushie video, I didn't have a great idea for a story line. I also had very little experience with the camera I was using. I had used similar cameras in middle school for photography but it wasn't a very in-depth course and we only took photos instead of shooting films. I was given about 15 minutes to film shots of my plushie. In my plushie video, my plushie is sort of a rebel (heavy metal music) and skips class because he thinks he's a ninja (hence the rolling). So he sneaks through the courtyard, past the seminary building, down the hill, but then has to go back up the hill but he can't make it up. Obviously, one of my biggest struggles with this film was keeping the camera steading. I wasn't very happy with the turnout of my video mostly because of the quality of the shots and I also didn't take as many shots as I thought I did so it was a much shorter film than I had anticipated. As little work as I had done with the cameras, I had done less with Final Cut Pro which is what I used to edit my film. I played around with many effects but didn't end up using them in my final film.
For my second plushie video, I was excited to have another chance at making a better film. I was hoping that now that I had played around with the camera and editing tools a little bit I would be able to make a better film. I had to create a storyboard before I could start filming. The first idea I had for a video was my plushie just taking a tour of the campus and wandering around kind of careless until something bad happens. After I finished filming, I got an idea to make a plushie film that was a remake of the "This is my School" video. As I started drawing up a storyboard for the "This is my School" plushie video, I realized I wanted to save that idea for a non-plushie film and make a different kind of remake to Bea's video. Filming my second plushie video was a challenge because the camera screen kept going white after I turned it on and set it to video. I was able to fix it a couple of times and film but I lost some of the scenes I had shot which was disappointing. I didn't make as much of an effort to steady the camera more as I should have because that was one of my goals from my first plushie video. Editing and getting the music behind this video was definitely easier than Plushie 1 because I was a little more familiar with how to do download the music and use Final Cut Pro.
