Independent Component 1

·      Literal

o   I, Brandon Le, affirm that I completed my independent component, which represents 38 hours of work.

o   What I’ve done in those hours was compose multiple videos, all different in many aspects. The videos range from using more so technical work than others. Overall I made 5 videos for my Independent Component.

·      Interpretive

o   Since my senior project is film editing, there’s no better way to demonstrate an adequate understanding of that topic than to actually edit films. So not including production of the films I did over 30 hours of editing films alone, with great concentration.  So in order, I have the links to the videos in which I worked on for the past few months (note: some of these videos weren’t uploaded to YouTube on the date it was finished)

o   Canada Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UYxT1UPK0

o   Hasan’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-iUOcMfKg

o   PTSA Silent Auction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24dDONzjiS8

o   Mission Tuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rBmpAl0No

o   The Odd Couple Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMQBVnCUq_Y

·      Applied

o   How this component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better was that they were all relatively different videos. Each video had its own unique style to it because of the type it is. There were some that required a lot more time because of the technical aspects of film editing, while some were just edited by the mood of the video. As you can see from the screenshots of my edits, the videos are all different and you could see which ones required more work in some aspects than others. For example in the Odd Couple video, that took more work in audio because we used a boom mic for the sound so the editing was a lot more focused on audio. Then there was the PTSA video where I had to choose a song and edit it together, so once I chose the song it was up to me to edit it in the style and the pace of the song. So this component was really helpful has my knowledge of film editing increases the more I edit videos.