Final Blog Reflection

4.Early in the year, I learned the importance of time-management and planned when creating a video. You can see that in my first film, the cyberbullying video, I clearly didn't do this, because our video as a whole wasn't even close to being finished. There was no time to add music, and our editing was a little sloppy. We had wasted a lot of time with the little things, instead of focusing on finishing the project. On my second project, (The Holiday Greetings Video) I learned how to manage my time a little better. You can see this throughout the whole video, because Cristabel's and my lines were practiced, and we had music in the whole video. Later in the year, I showed that I really had learned that concept well, since I showed this in other projects. One good example is from "The Beauty Project", which was my final project. This was done with Damaris and Cristabel. We finished our project earlier than most groups, and our video contained music, along with carefully planned scenes. We really talked about our ordering of the film and how much time it would take to film each part of the video. We even wrote out notes before-hand about what we wanted to present in our video. 5.A big concept I learned after making and watching videos were the ideas of dedication and working with other people. You may not be able to see this from my blog, but I put a lot of time and dedication to each of my projects. Sometimes I would come in on breaks of after school to help work on my project. Sometimes, when other people in my group would not really stay on task, or did not want to come in on their own time outside of class to help with the video, I had to step up to the plate. Sometimes I would have to work more than other people in my group in order to get the job done. And this is an example of dedication. People need that in film-making, if they really want to make their film good. My other important concept learned, working with other people, was a huge lesson learned in this class. Every day, we would work with other people. On most of our projects, we would work in groups, and it was important that I got along with all different types of personalites. With different people, I had to be willing do give my opinion, without being too dictating. I also had to suggest that each of the people do different tasks to I wouldn't be the one doing all the work. I had to learn to listen to other student's point of view, even when I didn't feel the same way. By doing all of these things, people are able to work together on a big film, and be productive in the end. 5.My expierences in this class have definitely helped me come out of my shell. As a naturally pretty shy person, I don't prefer being in front of the camera, or speaking in front of people. But this class helped me start to feel comfortable with those things. By being able to share my ideas with everyone else in the class, I've learned that speaking in front of people can be very productive, and allows me to express myself. Being in front of the camera in this class allows me to practice being professional and keeping eye contact like I'll have to in the adult world.

Reflection for "The Water is Wide"

1. Through our music video, we were trying to evoke the story of a boy and airplanes. The story is of a boy who looks up to his father, a pilot. The boy has dreams and aspirations of being a pilot just like his father. Then, one tragic day, his father dies in a plane crash. The boy then throws his dreams away because he is afraid he will die just like his father. But at the end, the boy who is then a man gets the courage to fly just like he always wanted to. 2.The part of the film that I am most proud of is the part of the story when the father is teaching his son about flying. It took some work because we made the airplanes in the pictures look like they were really flying. We had to use a moving effect and set key points for how fast we wanted the plane to look like it was moving. We wanted this part of the film to represent the part of the story when the father was teaching his son about flying. I really liked our choice of images because even though many of them were just symbols, they represented the mood we wanted to evoke. During the beginning, we used soft, bright colors and soft shapes to give off a happy, dreamy mood. Toward the end of the film, we used very dark colors and more pointed shapes to suggest a depressing mood. We also showed symbols of victory at the very end to show the accomplishment that the main character feels. 3.Probably only about ten percent of our video is made up of abstract images. We used identifiable objects in our pictures, but they were used as symbols of the moods we wanted to show. But we were pretty consistent about using flowers, clouds, lights, and other soft symbols to represent happy moods. We also were consistent about using darker and sharper images to represent an uncertain and sad mood. 4.By working on this project, I learned that abstract images can speak 1,000 words. I learned that sometimes abstract images can bring a mood across better than an identifiable picture can. I discovered that colors play a huge part in what moods are evoked. 5. I learned that music can create a story of picture. And the most amazing part of this fact is that everyone's mind can see a different story with the music.I also discovered that when music is added to different abstract images, the music can make those images come to life. 6. The most important contribution my partner made to the project was helping choose different images to evoke the mood we wanted. His ideas on which images to choose definitely helped bring our video together. 7.The most important contribution I made to the project was adding different effects to our images, and figuring out the timing of the music with the images.

Final Project - Beauty Project :)

Courage in the Sky

Jabberwocky stanza 3

We both agreed that we used the "Find edges" effect best. We really liked the mood it set and the colors it brought forth. By using this effect, we set a mystical, magical, and mysterious mood. We were trying to show the power of the man who killed the jabberwocky, and the intensity of what was going on.

Director's Cut

Effects Sandbox #2

To use this effect, you click on the Effects tab, and choose the option "Replicate". You drag "replicate" onto your clip in the timeline.

To change the settings, you click on the "Effect control" panel. You can click on the little triangle next to the different settings in order to change the settings in your clip.

You might use this effect when looking at something from a fly's perspective, or looking at a bunch of different TVs.