My experience with video recording and video interviews

I’ve been quite familiar throughout my life with video recording, mostly because I grew up in the social media generation. I’ve recorded video during sports games, WWE events, vacations, having a good time with friends, and many more occurrences. My expertise recording video didn’t really take off until I got my first iPhone, and ever since whenever I feel I want to record something that will be intriguing to me, I’ll grab my phone out of my pocket and press the red button. I really didn’t know the techniques of recording video until taking specific classes on-campus.

Before taking video production and TV news reporting classes on-campus, I can’t think of any prior experience of recording video interviews. The two aforementioned classes however really helped me out utilizing several video production basics and skills. I have gotten to know several video production terms, how to take still and precise shots, and what to do while recording a video interview. Most of the video interviews I’ve conducted were for video production-related projects for class. I have done only about five or six video production-related projects up to this point, but have really enjoyed the process meshing together video and video interviews to make packages, something that will once again be done as a part of my feature for NCT.  The aforementioned video projects I have done received good grades too, so I feel confident going forward with the video production of my NCT feature.

As of tonight, I have not yet conducted any video interviews for the NCT feature but have set up a couple of sources either for the end of this week or early next week. I should therefore have enough time to get the b-roll as well to make a video package for the video portion of the feature. I look forward to conducting more video interviews and getting more insight from a variety of perspectives how NCTs have positively and negatively affected UW-Whitewater and schools in general.

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