Intro to Audio and Video

This class was by far my favorite class. For some reason I caught on everything much faster then the others. I have 3 videos to share with you in that class but for now you are gonna have to just hold your horses. The file size on these videos are big and my external hard drive is only formatted for Macs. When I return to school I will try to try to see what I can work out so you can see them. Out of my 3 videos, two were documentary style and the last was an independent video. On the first 2 projects, I had to be teamed up with 2 other classmates which made things a little more difficult.

On the first video I had to pick a school topic and then go around and interview students and faculty on our topic.

The second project was called the Charlotte project. My team had to come up with something in Charlotte and make a documentary video based on our choice. For this project we made our video based on the National Whitewater Center.

The last project was my favorite. Since motocross is my passion, I didn't have a hard time figuring out what to make my final video about.

Before I close this out, I have a little story about my motocross project. If you scroll down a few stories, you will find little comments I was making about my work load being so heavy and not knowing how I was gonna make it. Another story I said something like... hope you believe in miracles because I will have one to share with you... and here it is.....

I was having a hard time trying to figure out how I was going to get all my work done in all of my classes. I spent a huge amount of time at school during the weeknights and the weekends. I was having to leave school and go to work and then leave work and come back to school. To add to everything, I got sick during my second video project and that lasted almost 3 weeks. Then some issues started to happen at work. It got to the point to where I had so much on my shoulders that I was starting to break down mentally and physically.

Enter miracle: When we make videos, we have to check out cameras from the school. I had a camera checked out over a weekend and was gonna head out to Andrews motocross track to shoot footage for my final project. Well a huge storm that covered the entire east coast basically came though and closed down all the tracks that were open that day. I was starting to stress a little because the project was due the next week. You have to think, once I get the footage I then have to take it to school and digitize what I shoot and then edit. I had plan B in my mind but that got shot down around the end of the week. I had only 2 days to do everything. Weather was showing another huge rain storm moving in over the weekend and I was so stressed out about what in the world I was gonna do. With the weather not on my side I just believed that God would make a way for me to get what I needed. Saturday morning... it starts raining. Shelly came along with me to be the photographer and I was the videographer. On the way down the rain got even heavier. I pretty much thought, well I guess I will just skip the last project and hope I still pass... and of course pour my heart out to my instructor. We arrive at Andrews and by the time I got the video camera out.... the rain stopped... the sun came out and the clouds moved on. It was around 65 degrees and turned into a picture perfect day. Now do you believe in miracles! The sky stayed clear for almost 3 hours which was way more than enough time to get what I needed. Later that night I went to school and digitized my footage and Sunday I spent 12 hours editing. God is so awesome. It was a ton of work, but I made it. I can see why videographers make so much money. It takes a lot of time to make a good video. The video had to be longer than 3 minutes and no more than 10 minutes. Mine was 4 minutes exactly. Shelly made a comment that... if we were up in heaven, the only clear spot in the clouds would be at the track that day. As soon as we left, the clouds unloaded. It started raining so hard , you could barely see in front of you while driving. As I sit here thinking about everything I had to do for this project, it leads me to one thought. Even though the journey is long and hard and looks like all hope is gone- continue to stand, cause God will be with you until the end.