What makes a good feature story?

    There are a lot of aspects that make up a good Feature Story. A good feature story should share a story with the audience that flows well and gets the point across and there are a ton of ways to do that. The winning video in e-Comm showed a lot of good qualities that should always be in a feature story.

     I saw a lot of things that i liked in the winning video. For example, there were really strong shots in her b-roll. I think its very important to have strong shots because thats what makes up basically the entire video. While the voiceover is going people need something to look at that also goes along with the voice over and really gets the whole point across. If you don't have good shots in a feature story then the whole video will be thrown off and won't flow. The 6 shot system is a great way to get all the good shots you need, and its pretty easy. 

    Another thing that i noticed in Lina's video, was that her voice over was strong. Having a strong voiceover is also extremely important in a feature story because just like shots and angles, it makes up a huge amount of the video. The audience needs to be able to understand what you're saying and have a clear idea of what the concept and main idea is. Also the voiceover can be what tells the story and so its important for it to be strong.

    In the voiceover and just audio in general, its very important for it to be balanced. If during different scenes the loudness changed dramatically, it can distract from what you or the subject is trying to say and the audience can get confused easily. So audio balance is another very important detail in a feature story. These are just a few things that make up a great feature story.

   

    

Feature story Experience

For video, we had to create a Feature Story. In this feature story, we interviewed 2 people, one of them being the main subject and the other being the backup subject. We did both a video feature story and a written feature story.

I will start by reviewing the video feature story. To start creating it, i had to decide who i wanted to interview, what the concept would be and what i wanted the theme to be. then i had to set up interview times for the subjects that worked for both of us. Next, after i had interviewed them, i had to create the voiceover/outline. After all of that, i import my footage and voice over, and start editing. I think for me writing the voiceover was the hardest part of the whole project, because in the voice over I'm not supposed to say things like "I" and "me" so i had to work around that which was a little difficult but after i got passed the begining of the voice over, the rest of it just came to me and was easier. I also had a few problems when filming the interview. I had filmed the whole thing and asked all the questions and the when i went to look over the footage, there was no sound at all. So i had to set up another time for the people i needed to interview and redo it. It was not too big of a deal and it was pretty easy to set up another interview but it defiantly set me back a little bit. Although i was upset that i had to redo it, i learned to always check to make sure the sound buttons were on the correct setting and to test to make sure the sound works before you do all the filming. I really love doing interveiws and I feel like it's something I'm good at and I I'll definitely continue to do.

We also did a written feature story. For the written feature story, you get to use a lot of material from the voiceover you already created for the video one so it was much easier than the video feature story although I liked the video one much better. All I had to do for the written one was create a captivating beginning to the story, which was slightly difficult. Really I didn't see much of a point or challenge to the written feature story and it was even kind of boring if I'm telling the truth. So overall I have loved this project especially the video feature story and I am excited to continue doing them