We're Off To See The Wizard

The scope of this project was a feature on Olathe Northwest's production of Wizard of Oz. This story focused on Grace Horvat and Allie Carroll who play lead roles in this years musical, this video also displays the hard work that is put into the musical and how it is coming along.

 Rachel and I wanted to promote this years musical, so we began by choosing an angle and picking who to feature, we decided on Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. We then planned out interviews and when to get b-roll. After getting interviews we then stayed after school to film a full costume dress rehearsal of the musical. The video needed to be done in just a couple days so we quickly edited and put all of the footage together.

From making this video I learned how to change the lighting in our studio to make the interviewee look their best. I also learned that putting a song/nat noise throughout the video will enhance the overall feel and tone of the video. Lastly I learned that interviews should be done in interesting places.

 If I was to do this video again I would chose a more interesting interview spot and possibly do a combined interview of both lead roles. Another change I would make is to interview each subject on a different side to add variety to the interviews.

 I would use a lot of nat noise again because it makes it more interesting, I would also get a lot of b-roll again because it makes editing go faster.

I will use my experience of the new techniques I have learned and work to improve my videos.

 Overall I was very happy with the turnout of this video on such short time of editing, the b-roll was very visual and the nat noise made this package interesting. Our interviewees also had excellent interview answers.