Month: April 2018

My paper’s topic is one that really speaks to me. My career is going to be predominantly filmmaking. This paper is going to dive into how the industry is changing and becoming more saturated. Social media and video creation is something that really interests me and I know I will be able to write plenty of content on the subject. At the moment I am focusing on working ahead so that I don’t feel the effects of the long paper on the last week when everything else is due. I am running into several difficulties with my sources. There are not as many scholarly journals on YouTube filmmaking as I had hoped. While this is an obstacle I’m sure I can overcome it is frustrating me at the moment. And other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram haven’t had specific videographers long enough to have a scholarly journal written about them. The marketing potential of social media is unparalleled therefor the need for video content is much higher. If I can find another article that touches on this a little bit more it could really help my paper. This next week will be a big week for working on the paper. My goal is to have my first draft done by Friday.

While starting this research paper, I am committed to finding a good topic. I think that there is a lot of information and content for some subjects while others lack. I want to try to find sources on my topic before I commit to it so that I can get an idea on how saturated the research market is for that topic. My first thoughts went to the gaming world. Fortnite and modern communication through games seemed like a topic that I could get early momentum on. Then I factored in the fact that it takes a few years for a scholarly article to get written, so I knew there would be no information on the topic for another few years still. I think Snapchat might be interesting to study or Instagram. An idea that I can really get into though is the ADHD gained from regular cell phone use. There is also the angle that it is making us less socially conscious. I like this because I almost feel that I need breaks from my phone because I am so connected to it. I am always responding to some new notification or alert that my phone has sent me and the result is that I am never without it and never go long without checking it. Another topic that I might be interested in is the new age of filmmaking and how because cameras are much easier to acquire so the market has flooded and therefor the format has changed. Many traditional filmmakers have gone to YouTube or Vimeo because of the ease of connection and the instant revenue off of traffic to a video.

I Just finished my feature story. I learned there is a couple of logistic problems that you run into when scheduling interviews. The camera work and editing is a strong point for me so that wasn’t that difficult. It was difficult to take pictures for the project. I felt as if I was being too redundant. I learned that you wan to have a very solid list of questions that are good for leading conversation. I did one interview that I cut because while I had solid questions they did not facilitate conversation the responses were brief and I forgot to prep them to repeat the question in the answer. After that interview however I worked out the kinks and think it turned out pretty well.