Month: November 2018

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/303805420″>DINNER DATE</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user91919839″>Bridget Lin</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

For my video, I decided to do a dinner date at Olive Garden and what I usually get from there with my boyfriend. It was a small and short one minute video, combined of the food that comes, what’s on the menu and the specials for the time being. Olive garden, being one of my favorite places to eat at, defintely has my favorite foods there and also having high quality foods there.

I did the video based on the order that people usually would eat in. They would start off by looking off the menu, getting their drinks, ordering their food and eventually getting their food at the end. I also put the same video of getting the water at the end, as usually when something finishes, it repeats itself at the end. I also had different videos from different angles and one video being between another so it would show a different angle and perspective. I think this makes it look better, as well as making it look more involved.

I once again, put jazz music with the video because I really like how jazz music vibes with food. I lowered the sound of the video so the music could be heard better and since this is just a draft, I haven’t fully figured out how I wanted my voice and my introduction into the vide, which is coming soon. I think it will mostly just be me narrating what is going on and happening around in the video. I think I might also make the overall video bright since in Olive Garden, is it kind of dark and I think food should be associated with bright colors. I do wish maybe I got more B roll and film, so things could be easier to add on or maybe some other pictures that would make the whole video flow better and longer.

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/303194711″>IMG_4261</a&gt; from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user91919839″>Bridget Lin</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/303194694″>IMG_4259</a&gt; from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user91919839″>Bridget Lin</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/303194687″>IMG_4258</a&gt; from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user91919839″>Bridget Lin</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/303194669″>IMG_4256</a&gt; from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user91919839″>Bridget Lin</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

 

For the Audio story, I mostly did it around a topic that everyone can relate to, which is their favorite foods. I did it for this reason so around the entire interview, it would seem more conversational rather than formal and the people would answer more honestly.

I separated the interviews by how the people would respond in the question order of asking them for their favorite foods, where they get it from and why they like it so much. I made the entire interview more conversational, adding in laughs, adding inside notes and also making them sound better in this sense because that way, it will sound more natural and things will come easier. I took the advice of fulling adding on more noises and trying my best not to cut people off as if was hard because sometimes they would cut themselves off and the whole thing would end there. I also, as advised, turned the music down a little lower so people could hear the interviews better. By adding more of this, it does sound better and sound fuller.

Additionally, I added jazz music because it seemed like it would fit the overall mood for the interviews. While talking or eating food, people have a lot of jazz going on and it actually brightens the mood. I used jazz music from freesound.org and imported into two different kinds of music so there was more variety and the whole thing wouldn’t be playing the same thing over and over again. I used four different interviews as well so there would be more variety in opinions and what people thought would be good for the overall message. Everyone was excited to talk about their favorite foods, because who wouldn’t enjoy sharing a bit of that?

By doing these interviews, I could then see what a small portion of people liked to eat and why they liked to eat it. Then, I could incorporate it into my own website, by getting the foods I know a majority of people liked and it would easier for them to understand where I was coming from with all this. Hopefully, then people could relate to my website and they could also see themselves compared to other people. It was interesting to see and listen to all the different comments made by people and where they wanted to eat. With this, it becomes easier to understand different people and know just what kind of foods they like.

With the whole theme of food around my website, I decided to ask around for people’s thoughts on their favorite food and their favorite places to eat, as well as the reasoning behind it. As I’m still getting used to using audition, it becomes interesting to see all the different ways I can work around with it. While adjusting, I would mostly add different clips in as I did four interviews with four different people and their opinion on their favorite foods.

First off, I used Jazz music, as a calming sort of tone and also give it a beat as it goes along. I got it off the website “freesound.com”, which is the same website that gave the chimes sound from earlier projects. Jazz seems to fit the mood and the overall tone as I used it as background music and lowered the volume on it when people are talking. I also used it to fill the empty space, in hopes that it could fill up some room to pause the pauses slightly less awkward. I used the pauses to indicate the different people talking, for I split it up in ways such as first, people saying what they like and then later on why. Of course, in that case, I kept the people in the same order but I also liked the flow of it more. This then leads off to my second point of why I set things up in the way that I did.

Secondly, I had my voice first go in, to give a sort of introduction to the whole deal and what is going on. I told what questions I had asked and I even left my voice with some of the commentaries to make it more friendly and instead of making it seem like an interview, I wanted to make it more conversational. I felt that it made people feel more comfortable listening and talking to me about it instead of having done more professionally. Hopefully, this would work out in some sense, if not I will probably take it off later, considering that this is a draft. I think overall the jazz music completes everything and gives off a good vibe to the overall message of food. After all, in most fancy and nice restaurants, you do hear jazz playing in the background as the music.

https://freesound.org/people/FoolBoyMedia/sounds/347848/ (This is the link I used for the jazz music)