The Best and Worst of the Scavenger Hunt

Yesterday, our assignment was to go on a scavenger hunt and interview different people around campus by asking them the questions we were given through Twitter.




The video shown above was Hannah and I's first interview in which we asked why people don't go to more football games that aren't against Lafayette. I think this is my least favorite video. Although I like the answer that was given, the positioning of the camera was kind of awkward because the interviewee was almost of of the shot. I definitely learned that it is usually better to interview someone by shooting horizontally so that if the camera needs to be adjusted it will leave room to do so without cutting out the person. Providing more space I think is definitely the way to go because shooting vertically doesn't allow for much space and gives off a cramped feeling. I also learned from other classmates' videos that it would be better to use the rule of thirds when recording someone.



The video above is my favorite video. I think I liked this one the most because it was shot horizontally and had both people placed well in the frame and the interviewee was a natural and presenting his. I also think that the little movement with the camera that did happen, was handled very well because neither of the people in the shot were cut off and it wasn't shaky.

Overall, I think we did a good job of making sure we didn't cut off the video before the person stopped talking. On another note, it was a process to actually put the video up on youtube and then get that link onto twitter. We engaged in mobile layering each time we did this. Mobile layering is great when you want to drive traffic to your content because the more places people see your content, the more it is seen. So you're getting people who aren't using one tool to see it on the one they do (If not YouTube, Twitter) and people who use both will have multiple places to find your content. I would definitely prefer using mobile because it's much quicker and less tedious because with the ZI8 you'd have to convert the video first. However, there is room for both because you can improve the video quality a little if you turn to the ZI8 first.