Video Report

1. The challenges and tribulations of being a group assignment
   In the group assignment we have faced many challenges and tribulations such as, communication, work to meet deadline, organizing group meetings and allocating task to members and decision making. Decision making has always been the greatest challenge for our group, as each member will often have their own opinion and preferred way to process a task. Tribulation occurred when writing the storyboard for the video. At the start, we came up with two different scenarios for the video, after we have chosen a scenario, we each have a different preferred ending for the story, high tension and conflict often occurs during these processes. Fortunately, our group includes four members, most of these challenges faced during decision making were able to overcome by voting.
   Another great challenge was faced during the process of filming the video, we originally wanted to film a scene where two characters was talking to each other, however, we were unable to organise a time to film the scene together, therefore, we have changed the scene into a telephone conversion, which allows us to film both character separately. An outdoor scene was required for the introduction of the video, the bad weather on the filming day have made it more difficult for us to film the scene.
2. The process of creating the video

In order to being the process of creating the video, we had to decide what our video was going to be on. We first discussed some ideas for what we wanted our video to be about on. Our first ideas were not great or would not be feasible within the limited time amount so we looked to Youtube for some inspiration for our own video. After going through numerous car videos, we decide that we would go with one of our own ideas which was to film the type of the cars that university students drive to university.

With our concept done, we now had to figure out how to film the video. One of the members had a 5.0MB pixel camera phone so we decided to use this device as it would be sufficient for the filming our video.

We would then meet on a Tuesday as all the group members were at university on that day and all members could participate in the making of the video. We decide to go to the university carparks as it would be the easiest way to film the type of cars students drive to university. During our filming process, we looked for and filmed different types of cars and to make it more entertaining, we each made satirical comments about the cars. Overall, we filmed 6 cars which were a Toyota Camry, Honda Integra, Audi A6, Toyota Prius, BMW 3 Series and an ancient car.

From there we got the clips from the phone and put them together and this became our video

3. How does the video relate to your blog?

Our blog, “The Stig’s Guide to Cars” is a blog centered on cars. We talk about old vehicles, new vehicles and also some of the most popular cars through time. We give insight and reviews on these vehicles and also like to put a comedic twist to our entries e.g. the piano falling on the Morris Marina.

With this in mind, the video we have created is also centered on cars, namely the cars found in Macquarie University. The group walked around the car park inspecting the vehicles, we then decided on a particular few vehicles which we would record and provided narration to go alongside the video. Again we tried to put a comedic twist on the narration in the video and anything said was purely for comedic purposes and was not meant to cause offence to anyone.

Throughout our blog we have covered many vehicles, ranging from the affordable to the incredibly expensive, we kept this same theme in our video as well and selected vehicles with a wide range of price tags, makes and models.

With all these aspects taken into consideration we have come up with a video which we believe compliments our blog.