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Ancient Civilization Video Review

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This project was from sophomore year for my ancient civilizations class. I made a video over the punic war. I thought it was really good for the level of experience I had at this time. There is a lot of things I would have changed. Some things I would change is the audio level of the music and the voice overs because the music is too loud and the words too quiet. Another change I would make would be some of the shots I used from other videos I found and used snippets because I didn't know what to use. I would go back and problem solve and make my own shots to fix these parts to make it all my own shots. Other shots were a tad shaky when panning to the sides so I would redo those. Overall, the video went with the information being provided. It followed the criteria that it needed to for me to get a good grade. The video will be a good memory and learning experience on how to make an entertaining video that follows with factual information. I would definitely make another one

Brief view on how to be a Key Grip

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This how to blog is for you to learn how to be a key grip! Key grip's are in charge of moving all of the equipment. Once all the equipment is moved you must set it up in the proper places to get the perfect shots with no equipment in the way. The other job of key grips is to help with adjusting the lighting within the shots using light reflectors and other various tools. This job is very essential within a film because how else does a camera operator get his tripod set up in a timely fashion and everything else flow smoothly within the film to create it. This is a basic and not fully in depth article on all of the small things that a key grip can do within making a movie. The point of this article is to show briefly in a bigger picture what the job of key grip is in a movie.