For my video story, I decided to do something in the style of “A day in the life of ___” from the point of view of myself. Since my topic is “About Me,” I thought this style of storytelling fit best because it displays a lot about my day to day life as well as some of my favorite activities. The story includes me taking care of my dogs, my lizard, making my favorite food, playing two of my favorite video games, and watching my favorite TV show. It also includes my career path and favorite sports team in a clip where I work on writing a script while watching Cleveland Cavaliers game highlights from one of the five games they’ve won this season.

As I went throughout my daily routine, I used my iPhone to record my footage. For some shots I used an iPhone tripod to steady the phone when I could. The clips are all pretty straightforward, but for the smoothie making footage I shot most of it as I went along and then edited the clips to make it like a quick montage. Once the clips were cut down properly I strung them together chronologically in the timeline. I had to boost the volume substantially on the video game clips because for some reason they turned out really quiet even though the volume on my TV was up pretty high. For the clips where I poured the dog food into the bowl and the clips where I dumped various food items into the blender I had to lower the volume of the food hitting the surface. For some reason it was ear shattering. Finally, I added a fade in effect to the beginning and a fade out effect to the end. Along with that being the standard thing to do when editing together a video, it made it look like my eyes were opening at the beginning of the day and closing at the end of the day.

Based on my peer critiques, I decided to add transitions between the clips to make them flow together better. I thought about adding music, but decided against it. I thought it would take away from the feel of the video that the viewer is seeing my average day through my eyes. I also decided against added a narration to explain what was on screen for the same reason, as well as the fact that it would break the golden rule of storytelling, “show, don’t tell.”

For my video story, I decided to do something in the style of “A day in the life of ___” from the point of view of myself. Since my topic is “About Me,” I thought this style of storytelling fit best because it displays a lot about my day to day life as well as some of my favorite activities. The story includes me taking care of my dogs, my lizard, making my favorite food, playing two of my favorite video games, and watching my favorite TV show. It also includes my career path and favorite sports team in a clip where I work on writing a script while watching Cleveland Cavaliers game highlights from one of the four games they’ve won this season.

As I went throughout my daily routine, I used my iPhone to record my footage. For some shots I used an iPhone tripod to steady the phone when I could. The clips are all pretty straightforward, but for the smoothie making footage I shot most of it as I went along and then edited the clips to make it like a quick montage. Once the clips were cut down properly I strung them together chronologically in the timeline. I had to boost the volume substantially on the video game clips because for some reason they turned out really quiet even though the volume on my TV was up pretty high. For the clips where I poured the dog food into the bowl and the clips where I dumped various food items into the blender I had to lower the volume of the food hitting the surface. For some reason it was ear shattering. Finally, I added a fade in effect to the beginning and a fade out effect to the end. Along with that being the standard thing to do when editing together a video, it made it look like my eyes were opening at the beginning of the day and closing at the end of the day.

For my audio story, I took a scene from the first film in a series of superhero films I wrote, Aegis, and turned it into a short story that reads like a novel. I narrated it as such and added sound effects to go along with the action. This audio story fits my topic “About Me” because it is part of something that I’ve spent years of my life creating. I did my best to explain the context in my narration, but to clear up any confusion; Hannah can create lightning bolts with her hands, can fly and has super strength and durability. Naomi pilots a mech suit, which is like a large robotic suit. Think of the big Hulk-buster suit that Iron Man used to fight Hulk in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I love all of my characters, but these two are in the top three because of who they are as well as what they can do. This scene, to me, is very gut wrenching because the two heroes are pitted against each other because of the villain’s mind control abilities, then it gets worse from there when they are both under his control and are commanded to take him to the rest of the heroes so he can control them as well. It was an easy choice to be the scene that I used for this project.

In regards to the technical side of things, I recorded my narration with my iPhone. All of the sound effects I used are audio files that I’ve recorded myself throughout my college career for use in various short films that I’ve made. In my self critique, I said that I would find a royalty free sound effect that would work as a gun shot, as well as royalty free music to accompany the story. In regards to the sound effect, I actually found a sound effect of my own that was meant for someone being slammed into a car, but I thought it worked as a gun shot when used in succession as well so I used that. I found royalty free music on YouTube. I will include the link to that at the end of this write up. I added the rain sound effect on a separate track from the narration and faded it out at the end, giving a couple seconds after the last line of dialogue for dramatic effect. I might let it linger a bit longer in my final audio story. I added the electricity crackling sound effects together on a third track, since they needed to be roughly the same volume. I did the same with the snapping and impact sound effects on a fourth track. I added the crash landing sound effect on a fifth track because the volume had to be lowered considerably. I added a third electrical sound effect alongside the dialogue “protective electrical jolt from the mech”. I added the gun shot sound effect three times in succession on a sixth track, and then finally added the music on a seventh track. The music was faded in to start and faded out at the end, a little but before the rain ended. I thought letting the rain linger a little gave it a dark and dreary vibe.

Royalty Free Music:

For my audio story, I took a scene from the first film in a series of superhero films I wrote, Aegis, and turned it into a short story that reads like a novel. I narrated it as such and added sound effects to go along with the action. This audio story fits my topic “About Me” because it is part of something that I’ve spent years of my life creating. I did my best to explain the context in my narration, but to clear up any confusion; Hannah can create lightning bolts with her hands, can fly and has super strength and durability. Naomi pilots a mech suit, which is like a large robotic suit. Think of the big Hulk-buster suit that Iron Man used to fight Hulk in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I love all of my characters, but these two are in the top three because of who they are as well as what they can do. This scene, to me, is very gut wrenching because the two heroes are pitted against each other because of the villain’s mind control abilities, then it gets worse from there when they are both under his control and are commanded to take him to the rest of the heroes so he can control them as well. It was an easy choice to be the scene that I used for this project.

In regards to the technical side of things, I recorded my narration with my iPhone. All of the sound effects I used are audio files that I’ve recorded myself throughout my college career for use in various short films that I’ve made. I added the rain sound effect on a separate track from the narration and faded it out at the end, giving a couple seconds after the last line of dialogue for dramatic effect. I might let it linger a bit longer in my final audio story. I added the electricity crackling sound effects together on a third track, since they needed to be roughly the same volume. I did the same with the snapping and impact sound effects on a fourth track. Finally, I added the crash landing sound effect on a fifth track because the volume had to be lowered considerably. This draft is a start, but I think it could benefit from some music and a couple more sound effects.

My logo is based on a passion project of mine. As I’ve said before, I’m a film student with a love for superhero films, and overall superheroes themselves. My focus as a film student is screenwriting, and for the past couple of years I’ve been working on a trilogy of superhero films. The main title for the series is “Aegis,” a word which basically means the defense of someone or something.

I wanted to create this logo because this concept is near and dear to my heart. The characters that I’ve created have been living in my head for years and I’m so excited to finally have them written into a script. In terms of design, the shield and sword represent the word “Aegis,” spelled out vertically on the shield. The shield takes the foreground because the ethical code of the characters asks them to first be a shield, but they will also be a sword if they must. I chose dark colors because while they look natural on a shield and sword, the films have a dark tone to them so I think they fit that well.

In regards to how I created the design, I mostly used the pen tool. I used it to create both the shield and the sword, making the shield all in one go, then the blade of the sword, then the rectangular piece between the blade and the handle (I’m not sure what to call it), and then finally the handle. I used a dark gray onto silver gradient on the shield with a 5 point stroke and solid colors on the sword, with a 14 point stroke on the blade to give it a neat look and 5 point stroke on the handle and rectangular piece. In my draft logo there were a couple spots where the stroke was uneven for some reason. I fixed it to the best of my ability by dabbing in a little bit of gray color using the paint brush tool. For the text, I chose a font that looked straightforward and easy to read and gave it an inner glow effect. I ended up the changing the font to give it a neater look, but it wasn’t too noticeable of a change. The color of the text was originally dark gray, but based on my own feedback and feedback from my peers I decided to change the color to gold to help it to stand out better. My peers left a lot of feedback based on changing intricate things with the shield and sword, but my limited skill with illustrator kept me from being able to execute any of those changes well. Because of this I decided to keep the shield and sword unchanged. I personally like how it looks as it is just fine.

My logo is based on a passion project of mine. As I’ve said before, I’m a film student with a love for superhero films, and overall superheroes themselves. My focus as a film student is screenwriting, and for the past couple of years I’ve been working on a trilogy of superhero films. The main title for the series is “Aegis,” a word which basically means the defense of someone or something.

I wanted to create this logo because this concept is near and dear to my heart. The characters that I’ve created have been living in my head for years and I’m so excited to finally have them written into a script. In terms of design, the shield and sword represent the word “Aegis,” spelled out vertically on the shield. The shield takes the foreground because the ethical code of the characters asks them to first be a shield, but they will also be a sword if they must. I chose dark colors because while they look natural on a shield and sword, the films have a dark tone to them so I think they fit that well.

In regards to how I created the design, I mostly used the pen tool. I used it to create both the shield and the sword, making the shield all in one go, then the blade of the sword, then the rectangular piece between the blade and the handle (I’m not sure what to call it), and then finally the handle. I used a dark gray onto silver gradient on the shield with a 5 point stroke and solid colors on the sword, with a 14 point stroke on the blade to give it a neat look and 5 point stroke on the handle and rectangular piece. For the text, I chose a font that looked straightforward and easy to read and gave it an inner glow effect.