Friday, October 22, 2010

About Video Interview

To begin to think of what to shoot for my assignment wasn’t too hard because over and over my friends and I express our frustration with attending and living at Buffalo State College. So in my mind who and what to interview was easy. Trying not to over analyze the project was the hard part for me. Its just you never fully grasp the understanding of what the professor is looking for but here I was able to still complete my project. Trying to still figure out the b-rolls to put in was a little challenging because I was still trying to figure out what is the best way to capture Buff state. So I just shot regular people walking on campus. The point was not to make Buff state look bad but to get the real opinions of a few students who has attended here since there freshman year.
In the video I am the talk show host and my friends are sitting in chairs of course looking at the camera. And although you cannot see my face I’m still prevalent in the interview. I asked questions such as how has it been attending Buffalo State College, tell me things you like about the school, dislike, what are some upgrades you suggest for the schools and about classes and there major, etc. They had a lot to say. Such as a problem that they have is the parking at the school. I know from experience that even though Buff state does not allow freshman and sophomores have cars on campus that parking is still inconvenient. Also how living on campus is not what it is appeared to be. It is very noisy from the other students, the rooms are really small and not having your own space is a problem when dormming. My friends and I do not live on campus because of those problems.
So they were able to explain their frustration in a well mannered way and without being in an uproar. They tried to give some positive feedback, such, as the faculties are there to help them when they need help. Or that attending Buff State is not that bad it just needs major upgrades. I like the video because hopefully a few students agree with it. They will know that other people understand there frustrations with attending and living on campus.

I just wanted to do something that i was interested in and had a lot of questions about. My friends did an amazing job expressing the way they felt about our school. It always seems like students voices are not heard and I guess that is primarily because things have not been changed, so how will we ever know. We all understand that the school is trying but my question is are they trying hard enough?

1 comment:

  1. Great topic. I think finding out what students think of a campus is useful to anyone considering Buffalo State College. Someone should really do a series that talks to students in all major's asking basic questions that wont be changed by the school's propaganda.
    When it comes to B-roll I think the start of your video is confusing because we're just staring at the campus and I was like "what's going on?" I think going right into the interview would have been good or when your showing bsc you could have had you speaking part where you say what the interview is going to be about.

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