All posts by derekstrom

Premiere Draft

November 22, 2019Assignmentsderekstrom

For my draft project, I decided to get a video of myself and some of my buddies from drum line playing basketball. Since playing sports together is the primary way we bond as a group, I thought it would lend itself to a good story. I couldn’t get a ton of people to come out and play the day we ended up shooting the video, but I think we were still able to capture the camaraderie between the people that showed up. I tried to shoot from as many angles as I could to diversify the shots that I got in the rec. I also shot some footage at a drum line rehearsal, as a way to connect those two worlds together and get a good establishing shot for my video. I had planned on starting on the topic of drum line during my voice over, so it made sense to get footage of a rehearsal. As for the editing process for the video, I went through a lot of different clips to try and find the strongest shots that I could, and I tried to differentiate as much as I could from shot to shot to make it visually appealing. I added some transitions and a couple title slides at the beginning and end, and I also tried using a key frame to zoom in on a bass drum head in one of the shots. I’m not sure if i like what i did with the key frame, but I thought I’d try it just to keep the viewer engaged. Unfortunately, the quality isn’t great, and I’m not sure why it changes so drastically once I email it to myself from my phone. I’ll see if I can find a solution to that problem before I submit my final draft.

Premiere Storyboard and Raw Footage

November 19, 2019Uncategorizedderekstrom

Derek Strom Premiere Visual Story

Visual Elements	Audio Elements
0:00-0:15 B-roll of drumline footage	Voiceover introducing the story
0:15-0:30 B-roll of basketball footage	Voiceover relating drumline activities to intramural sports and how they affect one another
0:30-1:00 More footage of basketball	Introducing the people that are included in the basketball footage and how they relate to each other and to the drumline
1:00-1:30 Basketball and drumline footage intermixed	Concluding statements and wrapping up the video within the voiceover

Premiere Tutorials

November 15, 2019Uncategorizedderekstrom

Here is the footage I shot for tutorial 1 before it was edited.

Here is the edited sequence for tutorial 1.

Here is the video for tutorial 2.

Final Audio Story

November 2, 2019Uncategorizedderekstrom

For the final draft of my audio story, I kept a lot of things the same from my draft but I added a could small details to make the audio flow better together. I decided to add music to my project, so I ended up downloading some creative commons licensed music from the internet. I like how the beginning of the song sound a little like a drum line with how crisp the snare is. I also made sure to turn the music way down because it was far louder than the audio I recorded. It took a while to find the right balance between the two but I think I found a good level for the music. I also made sure to fade out the music at the end of the project. I think it just made good sense to do that to give the listener a satisfying end to the project. I thought that would tie in nicely with my topic being related to drum line. I also went back and adjusted the levels for some of the interviews to make sure nothing was too quiet or too loud. Some of Logan’s interview was pretty quiet so I made sure to bring his answers up a little in the mix. Other than that, I liked most of what I made in the draft. I kept all the interviews the same because I liked the interviews that I did and the quotes that I got. I think the edits I made flowed together pretty well and weren’t distracting to the listener. I think the edits I made for the final draft made the project stronger and make the whole thing sound much less empty. The music adds a lot to the project and really rounds it out. I think my final project is much more complete.

Draft Audio Story

October 25, 2019Assignmentsderekstrom

I decided to interview some of the members of the drum line that often go out and play sports together. Over the past year and a half, I saw that playing sports really helped to bring the group closer together. Myself and other members of the group have formed strong bonds because of the time we spent together outside of playing music together. Since my course topic is intramural sports, this story was a natural fit. I was inspired by different interviewers that I’ve listened to over the years. Tom Rinaldi is someone that I really admire and that really influenced the questions that I asked. I think he’s a fantastic interviewer and his style is something I try to emulate. I tried to keep the questions as short as possible and the let the people I interviewed tell the story of our group and the bonds we’ve formed. I conducted the the interviews out in public, and some of the background noise made it into the recordings. I think that gives the audio a little bit more character and makes it more interesting to listen to. I interviewed three of the members of the drum line, Jared Grace, Logan Gallinger, and Matteo Corneto. I interviewed Jared before a rehearsal and I interviewed Matteo and Logan while we were hanging out one night. I recorded my voice overs in a practice room in the Kimborough music building. From there, I just put the audio into Audition and edited out and awkward pauses in the interviews to make the audio flow more cohesively from person to person. Logan’s interview had a few ums and uhs so I did my best to edit his audio to make it flow better. The background from Jared’s interview was a little loud, especially in the beginning, so I decided not to use that audio.

Raw Audio

October 23, 2019Assignmentsderekstrom

The audio story I’m planning on telling is how playing intramural sports has brought the WSU drumline closer together has forged bonds within the group.

Audition Tutorials

October 19, 2019Assignmentsderekstrom

Here is the raw audio of me counting.

Here is the completed first tutorial.

Here is the completed second tutorial.

Here is the completed final tutorial. Go Cougs.

Logo Final

October 11, 2019Uncategorizedderekstrom

For my logo draft, I created a logo for my intramural sports team. For inspiration, I searched for other intramural team logos on google and I also looked at designs people made for video games. NBA 2k and MLB The Show allow you to make custom logos to use in their games, and I saw some cool designs on those games that inspired the logo that I came up with. I knew that I wanted to name the team the pylons just because I think the name would be funny, so I had to find a picture of a pylon that I liked. Finding the picture was pretty tough, especially one that could be licensed for free, but eventually I was able to find one and I put it in photoshop and made a cutout of it using the magnetic lasso tool. I used the eraser tool to clean up the bottom of the pylon and make it look a little nicer. After that I saved it as a .tiff. From there I put the cutout into illustrator and I put the text around the pylon. I made the font for the bottom text around 200 points and the top text around 180 points. I made the text fill something close to anthracite and the border crimson. I figured since it is a logo for an intramural sports team, Cougar colors would look good as part of the logo. I made the border for the text 4 points to bring out the crimson a little bit more. I also warped the text so that it would wrap around the cutout of the pylon. I also made sure to choose a font that I liked , something that would stand out. I also made the font demi-bold italic, and I liked the way that it made the font look, so I kept it. For my final draft, I beveled the text just slightly to give the text and the logo a little bit more depth. I spent a considerable amount of time just playing with the angles to make sure I found the right look for the text. I also made sure to center the pylon in the middle of my logo, and I rotated it a little so it stood straight up. That was the number one thing I got for my peer feedback so I made sure to fix that for my final product. Pylons-Draft (1)