Putting Together My CCR

In my previous blog posts, I discussed what I planned to do for my CCR: one director's commentary-style video and one presentation. I am writing a script for both of these videos, but I decided to work on the director's commentary script first since it involves the more difficult required questions. Here's how I laid out my script:

Director's Commentary Script

There is so much content to go over in this CCR, so I decided to make life easier for myself by color coding within the script when I'll be putting B-roll clips over the stand-up. I can memorize lines, but I don't know about a whole paragraph, so I needed to know when I could take breaks. To keep track of my bibliography, I put all my sources I'd MLA format later at the very bottom. Obviously, I needed to refer back to the required question, so I just put those in bold so I could easily see it in my script. After doing all that jazz, I timed myself and it came out around 4:30, which does give me some time to do my presentation, which I don't imagine going over another 4-5 minutes. Although my presentation was an easier thing to record, I still needed a script to follow for my voiceover.

I made a separate Google Doc with the presentation script, and this gave me a break from the stand-up style thing since all I had to do was read off this document while going through the presentation. As for the presentation, I decided to go with Canva as my resource. 

Presentation Script

I have just always loved the artistic features Canva offers and it has a built-in voice-over recording feature, so I wouldn't need to edit anything separately. Or so I thought. When I downloaded the file as an MP4 from Canva, it came out as 5:15 and that was really pushing it with the time constraint of 10 minutes, so I cut down all the "fat" from my video (pauses, sentences that didn't add much, etc) and I got it down to 4:42 seconds. I wanted this presentation to be around 4 minutes so I could have more leeway with my director's commentary video, which I knew would be longer. 

Presentation Timeline

A sneak peek!

I filmed my director's commentary CCR after the presentation because I wanted to get the easier one out of the way and have an idea of how long my harder video can be. I filmed my CCR in my living room with some cute decor in the background, and I got to take breaks whenever something was highlighted in yellow. I had to print out some stills from my opening and I changed up what I wanted to say directly to the camera and through B-roll along the way, but I really love how my stand-up looked in the end.

As I put everything together in my Premiere timeline, it was time to add in the B-roll and make it look fun. This took me a bit to find all the footage I wanted and I had the source it as well, but it looks like I'm under 10 minutes! My video was 4:42 which was the perfect time because when I made some calculations, I could not go over 5 minutes in this video.  It's creepily the same exact run time as my presentation CCR, but hey, the universe is in my favor! See you soon!

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