College Bio Project

During ONW's annual Blood Drive, a group in my college biology class had taken advantage of the event to film a quick and fun video for our project. Since I'm in E-Communication, I had the idea to take responsibility of the actual video production and film part of the project, which means storyboarding the preproduction, coming up with ideas and organizing how and when to shoot, and also I had the responsibility of editing.

The scope of our project was to explain the concept of blood cells along with how it ties to cell diffusion and osmosis.  My group had come up with the idea to interview random students who were at the blood drive and we all wanted the responses to be unexpected and funny. We had less than two days to shoot during school, however only one day to be at the Blood Drive and get footage from that event. My teacher had also only given me one day to edit, so we were pretty limited on time to complete this entire project. 

As I came up with the general storyboard and organized how were going to shoot, the rest of my group created the content that would be in the video and how to include all of the biology that we had learned. Then, on the day of the Blood Drive, we checked equipment out and went to the flex theater to shoot.

Filming the interviews didn't go too bad, the only downside was that we were very limited on time and had a lot of footage to shoot, at least for the biology side of the video. We had prioritized the biology content first, then worried about the interviews and having fun after, which resulted in a short amount of time to find many students who would be willing to be in our video.

After getting all of our footage, I edited (mostly by myself) and clipped together all of the interviews along with the information about diffusion. I tried to edit in the way that ONW's segment "Word from the Halls" does, with quick cuts and random sound effects. After watching the finished video, I feel like I could have done much better on the editing and it could have been longer with better content if I had more time to edit. During the editing process, I relearned shortcuts on Final Cut that I've forgotten and overall gotten more familiar with the editing software. All in all, I feel pretty satisfied with our video and my group ended up winning a prize out of other groups in our class.