Elevator

In Fall 2010, I was in class called Field Production and Editing I at Madonna University. For this class, we were given very nice Sony 1080i HD camcorders that we used to shoot our assignments.

For our first assignment, we worked in teams of 4 and had to make an in-camera edit on campus during class time. It was four of us in a group with the camera, and we had to decide what we were going to shoot as our in-camera edit. There was an elevator right outside out classroom, so I figured let's use it to our advantage. I really wanted to do a story with the assignment, and after some brainstorming, we had a good idea of what we were going to do.

WATCH "ELEVATOR" ON YOUTUBE

We all took turns using the camera, so it was a team effort. If you look closely, well it is obvious, my cell phone was in front of the camera lens in the first "elevator" scene.

We went a little longer than the time was allotted for the assignment, but we all loved the end product. I went home that same day with the footage and added credits to it. So technically, it wasn't a true in-camera edit as shown in the Youtube because I did make some minor changes to it with Final Cut.