Casino Night video project 400-word story

The first reaction Chris and I had when we walked into the Casino Night at Lyndon State College was that hardly anyone was there. We were already informed that a company was being paid to come in early and train the students and teachers. When we arrived around 6 pm, hoping to get a glimpse of the training, we noticed no one was even there. The CAB director was on the phone with the company helping them with directions to campus. Chris and I decided to leave and show up a little later, hoping that the even would be up and running when we returned. The training ended up starting at 7 pm. CAB pushed the event to 8 pm since they had originally planned on the even being at 7. When we came back there were different stations set up with Lyndon state faculty members at each of them, controlling the games. There was no issue filming without getting the approval from the faculty members, but there was hardly enough people there to participate in the games. The room was decorated very professionally. There was a long table towards the back of the large room with all sorts of refreshments. There was also a collection of cool prizes for people to win over the course of the night, such as a kindle and a keurig coffee maker. Chris and I were surprised at how expensive these prizes were, and were curious how no would find this event appealing enough to show up.

As time went on more people were showing up. The most popular game seemed to be black jack; considering that was the game every one was going to first (although it could’ve been because it was the first station you see when you walked inside.) We worried that as we filmed people playing the games our camera wasn’t picking up enough natural sound. We tried to put the camera as close to the games as they were being played as we could, in order to pick up the sound easier. When we were editing the film clips we realized we had a great natural sound, especially when we filmed the spin wheel of the game roulette. The sound of the ball on the spin wheel is very distinct. The narration added to our video was scripted by ourselves before we edited the video. This narration accompanied the video by giving the viewers a brief idea of what happened at the event. Our conclusion of the event was that the lack of participants was unfortunate, because the casino night itself was a clever idea and both CAB and the casino game company seemed to have put a lot of effort into it. Chris and I were glad to have witnessed the event and hope that if casino night happens again in the future at LSC it has a bigger turn out.