I introduced the story with the line "most people think that the baseball season is over by the month of October, but for the Olathe Youth Baseball Tigers, October is a special month." it impacted my story by intriguing the viewer to keep watching the video to see why October means a lot to the team. The two people I interviewed, Tara Martinez (Travis's wife) and Doug Beckwith (the head coach) complimented each other in the story because it gave two different perspectives on the "meat" of the story: the legacy that Travis left and how it impacted the team. Tara talked about his cancer and why he decided to coach baseball and Doug talked about the legacy and what the team did to honor him.
The questions were a bit challenging to write because I didn't want Tara to feel to feel too emotional while answering the questions or get too in detail. I filmed the video over a weekend with my own camera because I filmed the video a while before the b-roll was due. I didn't have an external mic but there the wind wasn't too strong that it affected the audio. The 4 members of the baseball team who decided to be in the video were very cooperative, and I'm very thankful for that. The voiceover was also challenging to plan because I had multiple answers to the same question and lots of sound bytes to choose from.
For my finished video, I really liked the quote from Doug at the end where he talks about what the team learned from Travis. I feel that the quote is a very nice end to the video. However, I feel that I need to improve on my composition of shots because I have a lot of different wide and extreme-wide shots but not a lot of close-ups. I had to repeat some b-roll, which made the video seem very repetitive. Overall, I really like my video and even though I have things to improve on, the product of my video turned out really well.
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