I was thinking that I could maybe have a short story that follows two characters that are siblings who start messing with each other mildly like taking something from the other and then having it get progressively more chaotic and ‘dangerous’ over time. One sibling is younger so it’s only fitting that he would mess with the older one knowing full well that he has ‘baby of the family’ privileges. This type of thing requires planning in the form of a storyboard or script, both of which I am not good with so I’m not leaning into this one much but I’m going to give it a go and try before going to the backup plan.

The backup plan for if that doesn’t work out, is something like what was mentioned in class about an interview with a fake band. I thought that it would be great to have my brothers and dad, who all play Rock Band and Guitar Hero, be the band I interview. With my gathered knowledge from the Interview assignment I have faith that I could pull it off better this time around.

For my final video I plan to make a vlog styled video about my day. I have recorded many vlogs before and thought with all the new information and filming techniques I’ve learned this semester that I would be able to produce a high quality, entertaining video that showcases the skill I’ve gained from the curriculum this course provided.

If I don’t go the vlog route I was looking at possibly doing a cooking documentary or a montage of beginning to end of working on an art project!

Hello class! Here is my edit of the one-minute short, working with Miryssa Casas and Hailey Betts. Enjoy!

-Jeremy Sauter

For our one-minute video, my group and I filmed a humorous and escalating conflict between two students over shared items in a study area. We decided to use no dialogue to challenge ourselves to convey humor through facial expressions, actions, and sound effects. This restriction pushed us to be more creative with our filming, acting, and editing.

The finished product differed from our original script but turned out better than we had expected. One major change involved the final conflict. In the original script, the last item being fought over was a laptop, which would have been broken, ending the conflict with no one claiming the final item. However, during filming, we changed the order of the items being fought over, which led us to improvise a new ending.

In the end, the improvised conclusion worked surprisingly well and turned out to be a strong finish, especially considering it was a last-minute change.

Planning to tighten up the edit slightly, if needed, add music, clean up sound/add SFX, and polish the VHS VFX.