B-Roll - Content
- Sara Francis
- Mar 12, 2018
- 2 min read
After watching several Lynda courses on video recording techniques, we were instructed to go out and shoot our own B-Roll using the techniques that were shown in the video. Below is my compilation of shots from the students at the St. Therese Classical Academy and a brief reflection of my experience with the assignment.
NOTE: The parents of the students of the St. Therese Classical Academy signed "Photo Release Forms" and gave permission for their children to be in these videos.
WARNING! Since there is no music to cover the audio of the video, be prepared for random acts of silliness from the students of STCA.
Up front, I would like to say that my students and I enjoyed this video project. We had a lot of fun with it and they even learned a thing or two along the way.
Before we started filming, I made a list of all the shots that were required and wrote down how they would be done. That way I didn’t waste any time during the school day planning it out. Going through each one, some were a little more challenging than others. Only in the sense that I was slightly unsure of how they should be done. For example, for the second one, “Filling the Viewfinder and Framing the Shot”, I was a little unsure of whether that meant we could fill the frame with objects or shoot the subjects while they are looking out of the frame. Initially, I went with the latter. But, second guessing myself, I changed it to a student’s face filling half of the frame and looking at the chalk board, then a cutaway to show what she was drawing. I think that was the only one I had a small difficulty with, but I believe I overcame it.
Another thing I realized when filming was that, with video production, cooperative subjects are just as important as your filming techniques. As you may see, sometimes my subjects would get out of hand and start fooling around during the shots. Nonetheless, they were still well behaved. I was very pleased with my matched action shots and that was only possible because one of my students was able to follow directions. Having people who will work with you no matter how odd the request may be can make the filming process go by much smoother.
In the end, I believe I have a better understanding on these filming techniques. Watching the Lynda video and being able to do them myself was a great way to internalize the information. I am very happy with the way some of the footage came out and may use it in my final project when I interview the Headmistress of the academy.
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