Aug 24. AME Blog

Today in art media class, the day didn’t start how we expected. Being in charge of directing the video recording, meant the actors in front of the camera and the behind the scenes helpers relied on me to set up the scene and make sure everything looks and sounds good. Today’s assignment was making a reaction video to Spider-Man No Way Home. Our main setback was the green screen animated Spider-Man. We had never worked with something like this where something is moving on the screen that isn’t there in real life. We quickly adjusted and decided to not have the looped Tom Holland in the back but in front with the actors reacting to the trailer. This really chopped our time in half. After figuring the chroma key on the green screen we quickly started to record our first take. All was going smoothly until I realized there where 2 big problems with the film we were producing. The main problem was the green screen. On camera it was in front of the table masking half the table, hiding some faces, and making the proportion awkward. The second problem was the mic sound. We had the mic pointed up meaning the audio of the trailer was not heard and you couldn’t hear the 2 people in the back. We soon resolved all the problems and on Take 2 we successfully recorded a reaction to the new Spider-Man No Way Home trailer.