Connor and Sarah's Video Scavenger Hunt reflection.

This was easily my favorite video Sarah (@siegs038) and I produced during the scavenger hunt. Our subject, Danny Aguilera,'14, was very willing to participate, which I think immensely helped for the flow of the interview. I also asked a few more follow-up questions and made the interview more of a conversation, which I felt made the interview more engaging to anyone who views it. We also shot horizontally, which we quickly realized was much more aesthetically pleasing than vertical video and the black bars of doom it puts around videos.



This was my least favorite interview. It wasn't that professor Holmes wasn't an interesting subject, but he didn't really have a lot of enthusiastic comments about the Lehigh Valley and he actually rambled on for over a minute about how much he likes New York (we edited all of that out, which made the process more annoying). Looking back on it, I would've asked a few follow up questions to try to engage him more in the topic at hand, but at the time I was too focused on just getting the interview to think about it. He also made it clear he only had about two minutes to do the interview, so we felt rushed throughout its production. If I did that prompt again, I probably would've looked for another faculty member who had more time to talk.

I was really impressed with how easy it was to publish to YouTube from the iPhone. I felt that it was actually easier than it is on the computer. I would definitely much rather use the iPhone then film and have to bring footage back to edit on a desktop with the Zi8. However, I wish it was easier to edit and split up the videos in the iPhone interface. It was extremely difficult to trim clips so we pretty much just used the raw footage for every video. Perhaps innovations will come in the future that will make quick-editing on smartphones easier, or perhaps they already exist in an app I just don't know about.

Overall, this project was extremely enjoyable and I would definitely want to do something like it again.