Week 16: Slow progress

Our project in content development about solar panels is coming along. We shot footage last week.

This week hasn't been our most productive time. I had some projects coming up for other classes and needed to spend time on those things. What I've done is look at how exactly we would frame our footage in order to create a piece about solar panels. It seems more and more likely that we'll need to create even more footage in order to make a coherent video. We shot A LOT of footage last week by interviewing owners of solar panels and also on campus, but it needs some context to be valuable to us.

I was wrote a short script in order to get an idea of how this video will look. It really doesn't have much on it because we've only thought about the footage so far. The challenge has been in trying to make use of our material. We're not sure yet how to break it up and use the interviews we got.

An idea I had was to use slides or pictures in the video along with narration to explain how solar technology works. We'll use abstract pictures that describe the electrons that are being displaced by solar rays and show the flow of electricity as a result. I find that simple is usually better. This might be worth trying.

Script

We've already agreed that there would be at least two videos. Our second video will probably contain footage on the interviews we had with the Sunetric open house. That interview had even more material and we're just trying to look through all of it.