Throughout this quarter, Flip the Media will be featuring some of the best video projects from the winter Multimedia Storytelling classes.

“Honor & Tradition” by Stephen Brashear and Xurxo Martinez

Our client was Academia della Spada, an academy that teaches 16th Century sword fighting techniques and frames them as part of Western Martial Arts. Every other year, the academy organizes a symposium on Western Martial Arts called 4W. The goal of our video, which focused on 4W, was to explore and explain Western Martial Arts through the words of instructors and participants.

We shot the video with a Canon 5D Mark II and recorded the audio with a lavaliere micro and a Rode shotgun. We edited the video in Final Cut Pro.

We learned that it’s difficult to put together interviews that were recorded in different settings with very different background noise. Additionally, we learned the importance of planning the video before you start shooting.