Warning: I have an iPhone 6 and that is all I have to record, so the very poor video quality can not be fixed.
For my video, I decided to make it about my passion for art and how doing art is helping me through quarantine. My website topic is things that I am passionate about, so this video idea fit in well. My website topic also was sort of about social issues that I cared about, so I tried to fit this video in with the quarantine and how hobbies help with mental health.
I first recorded the ‘interviews’ with myself in order to get a good framework of where to start for B-Roll and the interviews with my parents. I then collected some of my artwork and recorded B-roll of those. I then interviewed my parents. When editing, I started with making subclips of important things that either me or my parents said in their interviews and switching all of the clips until they were in an order that made sense. I then started getting familiar with my B-roll and making subclips of the B-roll that made sense with the interview content. I layered the B-roll over the interview clips in order and tried to leave spaces that were appropriate between the B-roll clips and the interview clips. I then looked up royalty free music and picked one that I thought suited the tone of the video well and layered that under the video and lowered the volume so it did not drown out what was being said in the interviews.
I somehow managed to accidentally delete my draft video, so I had to reedit the video completely. This honestly made hitting the time limits a lot easier, because I was able to add videos in a different order from the beginning in order to add the extra time I needed to the video. I also made sure that I made the music quiet enough alongside the interview audio so that it was not too distracting from the story I was trying to tell. I also added more B-roll to the new interview audio I added so that the video was more interesting and the B-roll helped convey my story more efficiently.