1. My favorite part about this semester was investing in a topic that I forgot that I loved so much. Tennis was a big part of my life in high school and it was a sport that I got to continue as I got older, but I lost the spark that I had when I was competitively playing it on a daily basis. Getting to focus on this amazing sport really made me appreciate the culture, the competition, and the fun that tennis carries with it. Filming, recording audio, and editing were also some fun things that I enjoyed this semester
2. I learned the basics of video editing and learned how to photoshop and I wasn’t to invest a bit more time in those. My best friend is a photographer who loves photo, video and many other camera involved things and I never understood why he was so passionate about it until now. I can see now where his drive comes from and I myself enjoyed the assignments we were given this semester.
3. My dream is to work in the sports broadcasting world, and I hope my time here and my experience will lead me down a path in that direction. Many of these major sports companies that we see have a lot of visual editing and use many programs that we used this semester. I believe that if bring some of the skills I learned to the table, I would find that I could have an advantage when it comes to applying for jobs and internships.
4. I don’t believe there any skills that I can think of that I could add to what I learned this semester.
5. I mainly stuck to the sources that we used in class and didn’t really seek anything outside of that.
6. I very much enjoyed this class and I hope to possibly use the tools and skills I learned in this class someday in a professional environment.

Thank you for a great semester, Isaiah Sharp

For this final video I wanted to do an advertisement for the Hollingberry field house showing off one of the iconic tennis structures at Washington State University. It is similar to the Murrow building video that we did in the sense that it is giving the history of the building and showing off its many features. I used a majority of the shots from my draft video but I added a few new shots to make the video more visually pleasing. The last video had a group of guys playing and I wanted a bit more action so I had a video taken of my friend and I rallying for more consistent play and to show the game of tennis a bit more. This represents the community that comes along with tennis and shows that the sport is driven by the athletes you meet around in the game of tennis. Again all of the videos and pictures were taken by me or recorded by my girlfriend. I also replaced one of the pictures from the last video. I took a shot of a big banner that said home of cougar tennis and noticed that there wasn’t much that was happening visually and so I decided to go another route. Scoreboards are synonymous with sports and the field house has a very nice scoreboard just above that same banner and so I decided to snap a picture of it. Conveniently there is a great looking Washington state flag right under neath it to make the picture more visually pleasing. I wanted to add even more to the picture so I used the zooming feature and set some key frames into the photo to zoom in on the section that said Washington state tennis. That way the audio matches up when i say it is home to the cougar women’s tennis team. Another one of the biggest features that I added was the music. Music is a good way to set the tone in a video and I found some inspirational background music in Hooksounds.com. I also added the editing and attribution title slides at the end to bring the video to a nice close. A few fade outs for the audio and the video helped it feel more completed at the end as well. Overall I’m proud of the outcome of my hard work and I hope my story is clear and shows what I have learned over this semester.

For this assignment I wanted to stick with my tennis theme and do a bit of an advertisement of one of the tennis facilities here on campus. The Hollingberry field house is a very iconic building here on campus and I wanted to give it it’s own video like we did for Murrow. I went to the field house earlier this week and recorded all of the video and took all of the photos you see in the video. The videos of me are recorded by my girlfriend and are used to represent people who come in a play the sport for fun and community building. I also met some nice gentleman who were playing and asked if I could record a few points and they gave me the okay to record. Tennis is a very community driven game because you need multiple people in order to play and this draw more people in to play the amazing game of tennis. That is why i wanted to incorporate the men playing. All of the information that I gathered about the Hollingberry field house is on WSU’s facilities website.

Story: Promotional video for Hollingberry fieldhouse

0:00-0:07: pictures of the field house                Audio: intro of the field house

0:08-0:15: pictures or video of other                 Audio: Description of fieldhouse/

                      Exterior aspects                                              History

0:15-0:30: People play inside                               Audio: describe the interior

0:30-0:45: shots of me serving tennis ball         Audio: talk about benefits of fieldhouse

0:45-1:00: photos of interior                                Audio: description of court and building use

1:00-1:20: later add me and a friend rallying    Audio: talk about tennis community

1:20-1:40: later add tennis club playing             Audio: interview tennis player

This would be for my later draft but the video is what I have captured raw for now.

For this Final assignment I wanted to stick with my original interview idea but add somethings to make this post truly blog worthy. Something that i did last time was only use my audio and I wanted to explore a bit more what other audio would sound like. I of course recorded all of the voice audio myself using my phone recorder but I decided to add some music to this final piece. I searched the internet for free music and came across this track that you hear and it fit very well to the final project. I made sure it wasn’t the center piece that people would hear but would also be loud enough so you would know its presence was there through the audio. It adds a certain amount of intensity and I feel like this this can relate well to the sport of tennis. Both the audio and the sport are fast pace and energetic and those are needed to be a good tennis player. I stuck with the same audio recording of Brandon from before but needed to change my audio because it felt to formal. It needed to be more story like so I scrapped the first recording and made a new one. This reads and sounds more story like as if i am describing the game itself with a fellow tennis player rather than just direct questions towards another person. This helps it feel more relaxed and relatable I feel for those wanting to learn what tennis is like. This final piece fell together well with the new background song and the new audio recordings that I implemented. Music is a big part of many peoples lives and it added so well to other projects that i felt it was appropriate to follow suit.

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For the Draft Audio assignment I decided to make it more of an interview style story. My Raw audio assignment was really good for ambient noise but I wanted more so I reached out to another tennis player I knew and asked him some questions. For this I went over and sat at his dining room table so that I wouldn’t have any sound interference. The technology that was can carry just in our pockets is amazing and my phone has made these audio assignments a breeze. Just pressing record and sharing it to an email makes a somewhat challenging process 20 years ago a breeze and I can transfer an audio byte from my phone to Audition in less than a minute. I recorded myself as a narration to ask the questions and then spliced my audio to sound more professional. This I did at my dinner table and I tried to be careful how loud i was because my mics can pick up sound very well and make them blast in speakers. I then took Brandon’s interview answers and formed them to my recording. I tried to edit out any “Ums” or other noises in the background to the best of my ability. The razor tool was my main source of editing for all of the sound in this assignment. After I had those all put together I wanted to add something else to give it more. I decided to take some of the ambient noise from the last assignment and put it in as a way to show ending. I used this in the similar way that we used the chimes in our interview assignment for the Audition tutorials. The closing sound is me hitting a tennis ball and bouncing on the court and this is a familiar sound that many people can easily pick up on.