Throughout this semester in this course, I have learned many valuable skills that I can input into the rest of my college career and for whatever occupation I obtain after that. Having a hybrid set-up class, in my opinion, is more beneficial than being enrolled in one or the other. This is because you learn skills that are more prominent in the real world since communication happens equally between online and in person creation, meetings, and media topics.

One of my favorite projects that I completed this semester was the final video project because it gave me a lot of freedom to create what I wanted and express the topic that I have been working on throughout this class. I enjoyed the other assignments too, but it was very specific directions. With specific directions, I learned a lot about how to navigate editing and different platforms for creating multimedia so It was a significant aspect of my learning through this semester.

In my future, I see myself working with some type of multimedia management or advertising, which includes a lot of media production. Because of my plan, this class was very useful to me because the basis is to learn technical and communication skills. A skill that I think would be valuable for this class that could be easily implemented would be to add an aspect of public speaking over a multimedia platform, I think by adding this it could help with the potential of an interview or some sort of set up that requires the person editing, to be in front of the camera or being the editing format.

Overall, this class has helped my progress in editing immensely and I will carry the skills that I have learned in this course through the rest of my careers in and out of college. As technology is ever-changing and advancing, I believe the skills I have learned will help me navigate whatever projects I endure next.

For my video story project, I decided to create a demonstrative video that portrayed a big factor of my fitness journey, my daily workout routine. In this video, I had my friend Grace demonstrate my step-by-step workout that has impacted my journey immensely. Initially, my rough draft showed an idea of what I wanted to do for my final but I knew it was not exactly how I wanted it to look. My draft showed my two friends demonstrating some easy at home workouts, but didn’t have a finalized touch on it because of the setting, transitions, narration, etc. After submitting this draft and getting reviews from my peers, it made it a lot easier to see where I could improve and how I wanted my final draft to look. I started by changing the setting of my video, since this is about fitness, the most appropriate setting would be some sort of scenery that represents that; which is why I decided to film at the recreational center. I then added in a narrative in the beginning to clarify exactly what my video is about. After my narration ends, the actual demonstration begins and I added a background music that matches the theme of the video, which is high energy and fast paced. I also cut multiple short clips and added in portions to give the video a more professional look, for example I did a pan of the setting in the beginning, and then added a clip of running shoes being tied to set the theme of the whole video. Between each clip, I added a smooth transition to easily move into the next segment. And along with each segment is a title to clarify what is being demonstrated. All of this together shows what I would expect a demonstrative video to hold and represent, and think it represents my topic of fitness exactly how I hoped it would.