Our final project this year was a did you know. I chose to do mine about the effects of getting too much sleep. I got this project done quickly and didn't have any problems. I chose to do a more classical piece for my music. My pictures all looked good and it was a great way to end the year.
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Last week our class started doing trailer recuts. A trailer recut is when you take a trailer, and change the genre of it. We spent some time looking at different things people had done and finding a movie trailer that we wanted to use. I decided on "The Exorcist" because it is a classic horror movie and I wanted to try to make it happier. I had to cut out all of the scenes with the scary monster girl. I made it into a story about a little girl that doesn't have her dad around anymore. He forgets her birthday and tries to make up for it. The little girl turns to pranking to get his attention. The pranks start getting worse and the doctors try to tell them that she needs religion. Her dad finally realizes whats going on and understands that he is the only one that can help. I had a little trouble getting the voices and music to match up, but I got it done.
We started our Six Word Stories last week. We had to create a video about a six word topic of our choice, in six shots. I chose to do mine on "Tired of being bored in school." All six shots had to be completely different shots. I tried to do that, but with the topic I chose, I ended up taking some slightly similar shots. I did shots of my classmates acting bored in different classroom environments. I some trouble getting them to cooperate in the yoga and classroom shot, but I finally got it done.
We did our Stop Motion project about a week ago. We learned that stop motion is taking a bunch of clips or pictures and putting them together to make a video. We practiced doing various things for about a week. We did a bumper cars video and another video just doing random things. My partner and I finally decided to make a video with clay people. In the video two clay people meet and then one decides to decapitate the other. We had about 300 pictures and we put them together to make the video.
The past week we have been working on videos called Did You Know's. We went to a website by John Tesh to find material that we would like people to know. I chose "Did You Know that sitting is bad for you?" I had to record all of my audio twice because the first time I recorded it, the audio had an unwanted crackle that wouldn't go away. After I finally got the audio squared away I worked on finding all my pictures and putting them in my video. After I was basically done, we noticed that my settings weren't right so we had to change that. I then proceeded to pretty much redo my video. My computer was being slow so when I finally had it done I forgot to save it. Premiere Pro kicked me out and it wasn't saved when I came back in. I had to redo my video again. In the end I finally finished it and learned a lot. It taught me how to use Premiere Pro.
Our class started working on a digital storytelling video last week. Kalacia, Mythius and I all decided to work together on this project. We chose as a group to do a fairy tale story where Mythius is the princess and Kalacia is the knight looking for his lost princess. I was every other character that we needed. It starts out with the bad guy trying to get the princess. When he is rejected he follows the princess and captures her. He takes her to his tower where there just happens to be a dragon. The prince then searches the entire kingdom until he finds his princess. We used a lot of effects in editing, like adding a dragon and learning how to use the green screen. We tried to use as many interesting shots and characters as possible. We had a lot of fun making this video. We had some embarrassing moments but in the end I'm glad we made the video.
We started making our webpages in our Digital Media class last week. It has been a fun learning experience. I didn't have any problems and I learned how to use Weebly quickly to make my site. Our teacher Mr. Holt, taught us how he wanted the webpages made. We created them to his specifications. We put our videos in the website and tried to talk about ourselves in the "about" page. I have completed my site and will publish it soon.
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