Today in our media class we were supposed to start the process of editing. I was very excited for this day as I love working with computers and editing videos. As soon as class started my group and I started working on the computers, after signing in, I tried to find pinnacle studios on the computer offered by our class and school. I couldn’t find it but I just thought that it was a problem with my account so I signed out and let another group member try with his account. After all of our group members tried with the school computers and it didn’t work, we started worrying that we were the only group struggling with the process. Luckily I brought my computer to school and I had the idea to use it so I decided to start working on my computer. We rushed the process because we thought we were behind everyone else. When I opened my computer I had to update it and unfortunately this took a while. We thought that editing on my computer would’ve been a lot faster and more efficient, but after twenty minutes of waiting for my computer to update we started to get irritated by the fact that we couldn’t edit.
After my computer was finally done updating, we downloaded IMovie or at least we tried to. Our school WiFi wouldn’t let us download this application so we needed to find another source of WiFi to make sure the computer would work. A group member, luckily, has unlimited data so we used his phone as a WiFi source. We finally thought that we were about to start editing and finish our task for today. But when we tried to open iMovie or pinnacle studios, both of them didn’t work. This is when we find out the whole class couldn’t edit today. The programs crashed.
I was very aggravated by the fact that we couldn’t edit today because I was very excited for this day. Since our group member was sick during filming day we had to adapt and find a solution, and I thought that today we would explained her everything about the film and the editing part but we couldn’t because it wasn’t working. Despite this, she offered to help a lot for editing to make it up since she wasn’t here and couldn’t do much for the filming day. Overall today was a pretty frustrating day because we weren’t able to work. But something I learned today was hot to move footage from the desktop to Google Drive. Hopefully we will be able to start working next class.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Filming Day Blog
Today in our media studies class we got to film for the whole class period with our groups. My group and I chose a
anti-vaping video because we thought our commercial could have an impact on today’s teenagers and their addiction to vaping. The first thing I did for the process of filming was costumes, we all decided to wear white shirts in order to look more professional. I also brought a USB drive to use it as a vape for filming. I was the director of our group so I had to take care of all the process of checking out all the equipment. Unfortunately we ran across a big issue, one of our group members was very sick and could not make it to school, so we had to adjust almost everything. We made sure that we had the right camera and the SD number card and went down stairs. Before we went downstairs we had to get tape but we didn’t have any in our class so we had to get it from the class next to us.
I taped on my shirt signs saying “lung cancer” and the other member of our ground had “addiction” taped to his shirt. The first shot of our commercial is our group member sitting on the stairs of our school and using the USB like a vape. This scene only took one take, but we still took more takes in case something was wrong. Not having enough people we wanted in our group, was a big problem. Luckily a student we knew walked by, he had experience with the class as he passed AICE media studies, so he helped us get a couple of shots. I had the idea of adding some dialogue at the end of our video to present the consequences of vaping. The other group member and I talked to the camera about the consequences of vaping and this took a lot of takes because we didn’t know what to say at first and then we started laughing.
I made sure that there was a white wall behind us to make it look more professional. I then packed up the equipment and the other group members helped me carry it up to the classroom. I started the dumping process before class ended and we finished on time. I also had to help another group that needed extra people to form an “L” for their media commercial. I figured out how to insert the SD card into the SD card reader and then into the computer correctly. I then went up to the classroom and dumped all the the clips from the SD card onto my computer. I then packed up all the equipment and put our equipment sign out paper in the correct folder. We somewhat had to rush so that the next period could use the SD card as soon as possible. In the end we all had a very enjoyable experience filming. I think our group was very productive. I think our commercial is very educational and it will have a big impact on teenagers addiction for vaping.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Story Board blog
Today we began and completed our storyboards in class of our upcoming commercials. Since our commercial is 30 seconds long, each box of our storyboard represents 6 seconds of film so in total we used 5 boxes. In our anti vaping commercial, we will be using several kinds of shots in order to fully enhance the audience in the commercial and keep them interested. Some shots we used were point of view shots, over the shoulder, high angles, and finally wide shots. Although we may have to change some scenes, these are the planned camera angles and movements we will be using in our commercial. During our editing process we plan on using jump cuts to transition between our different pieces of film, the reason being that we want this commercial to really emphasise what each scene is saying.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Editing Lesson Blog
Today in class, October 14th 2019, we learnt about what we will need in the future to succeed in this class. This class gives us the chance of checking out cameras in order to film for our commercial or music video, but every time we check out a camera, we need to fill out an agreement sheet and put our full name and phone number on it. Also every camera equipment has an item number and we need to let our teacher know what camera we have through the agreement sheet by putting all the information on it. Cameras aren’t easy to use, we always have to make sure they are charged because if we start filming and the battery dies, it will take very long to charge up. Another very important thing that we need to remember is that we must have our school ID to film around the campus or else we will not be allowed out of our classroom.
Once we are further into filming we will need to create folders where we are going to save and move our work into them. To be able to move our films to the computer we will need an SD card reader and plug it into the USB, luckily all these material is provided from our teacher. The first thing we will do with our folder it’s going to be dumping, which basically consists in moving everything in our folder by highlight all we have and then move it to the folder. You will also need to import the videos and you will be able to know what to import because it will have a yellow check on it. I personally think that this was a very important part of the lesson because it will be a lot easier for us students to keep track of our work if it is all in one folder and it will also help us with being organized.
After we are done filming we will need to start editing our raw footage. We need to make sure we have every take we took since we will never know if we will need a take last second. We have to be ready for anything, for example our videos getting deleted, or our WiFi to crash, or our computer to break. We have to build our video on AV track 2 and if music is needed it will go below so that the audience can still hear the voiceover, if present. In order to add musing we will have to make it MP3 and then click on “jump audio.” A big part of the editing process is adding techniques that we will learn throughout the years and we can do that “by right clicking,” go on “effects editor,” and then “transition in.” An example of the ending techniques is the shattered glass when a jump cut is present. Ultimately we will need to pick the title for our video, we have to click on “T” and then write one. The last thing to do is that we will have to detach the audio and then delete it before we turn our equipment in.
Once we are further into filming we will need to create folders where we are going to save and move our work into them. To be able to move our films to the computer we will need an SD card reader and plug it into the USB, luckily all these material is provided from our teacher. The first thing we will do with our folder it’s going to be dumping, which basically consists in moving everything in our folder by highlight all we have and then move it to the folder. You will also need to import the videos and you will be able to know what to import because it will have a yellow check on it. I personally think that this was a very important part of the lesson because it will be a lot easier for us students to keep track of our work if it is all in one folder and it will also help us with being organized.
After we are done filming we will need to start editing our raw footage. We need to make sure we have every take we took since we will never know if we will need a take last second. We have to be ready for anything, for example our videos getting deleted, or our WiFi to crash, or our computer to break. We have to build our video on AV track 2 and if music is needed it will go below so that the audience can still hear the voiceover, if present. In order to add musing we will have to make it MP3 and then click on “jump audio.” A big part of the editing process is adding techniques that we will learn throughout the years and we can do that “by right clicking,” go on “effects editor,” and then “transition in.” An example of the ending techniques is the shattered glass when a jump cut is present. Ultimately we will need to pick the title for our video, we have to click on “T” and then write one. The last thing to do is that we will have to detach the audio and then delete it before we turn our equipment in.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Planning Blog
As a group, we have decided to do the anti-vaping commercial. In our commercial, there will be a student walking towards the bathroom, they will then enter and begin using the vape(USB). After their use, “lung cancer” will wait outside the bathroom and begin to walk up to the student that vaped, “death” and “addiction” will follow and eventually circle the student. It will then fade or dissolve into a close up of the students face where they will be overwhelmed with the effects of vaping. At the end of the commercial, there will be a voice over, stating something to the effect of “After vaping, you may be stuck with these effects forever” The commercial will then end with the warning signs of vaping.
- Props: For our anti-vaping commercial, we will be using a USB as dangerous vaping device, shirts with labels on them:“lung cancer” on one shirt, “death” on another, and finally “addiction”.
- Costumes: We will be using a casual, school appropriate clothes to represent the student vaping in our commercial. To represent the effects of vaping, we will be using T-shirts with labels on them “lung cancer” on one shirt, “death” on another, and finally “addiction”.
- Schedule: 10/10- We are preparing our commercial by listing our props needed, our costumes we need, our schedule for planning, the location of our commercial and finally, the backup plan if our original plan does not go through.
10/14- We will be creating our storyboards for our commercial to explain each segment in the commercial.
10/22- We will be filming our commercial on the school campus where we will film our original plan and possibly our backup incase the original is not what we were hoping it to be.
- Location list- For our commercial, we will be filming near the bathroom and the classroom. We will be using these locations as it portrays perfectly where vaping occurs throughout the school day. We may change or think of new places in the school to shoot the video, however, for now we have chosen the bathroom.
- Backup Plan: If our original plan of using the bathroom is not able to be followed through on, we will switch locations to the bleachers by the football field as it is secluded and could be another place for vaping to happen.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Blog 2
Conventions and codes are used throughout commercials to get the viewer or consumer, more interested in the product. An array of conventions and codes can be used during an advertisement, some being: lighting, music, sounds, and overall story and plot of the advertisement. Each example of conventions draw the audience in more to the actual commercial, whether it be through emotions or curiosity.
Conventions are the familiar and predictable forms of media that brands use to communicate certain ideas or convey a desired impression. How certain words and phrases become conventions is through repeated use to the point where the audience is actually anticipating the phrase again. In our commercial, an anti-vaping campaign, we will focus primarily on the health effects of vaping in the long term so we will use the conventions of constant repetition throughout the commercial.
Introductory
My name is Luca, I’m Italian and I moved to the United States three years ago. When I first got to the US, everything seemed nice and perfect, and I was living the dream. I was ready to start a new life leaving everything I had before behind me. Moving to a new country isn’t always as easy and fun as it seems, not knowing how to speak the language that everyone speaks around you it’s very demoralizing but I’m very proud of myself for learning English so fast and all on my own.
At the beginning of my junior year my sister graduated and moved to Wisconsin when she obtained a scholarship for swimming. At this point my mom decided to move back to Italy so she could provide a better income for my sister and I. My mom gave me the chance to move back with her, but I knew that if I did I was going to waste the two years that I already spent in the United States. So I moved in my friend’s cottage and I’ve been living there for a year now and at the beginning it was pretty hard not seeing my mom every day and having her drive me to school or eating her amazing dinners. Eventually with time I got used to it and I realized that this experience is making me a more mature and independent person and I think this will help a lot with my future because this isn’t something many people have the chance to do.
Now I’m a senior and I’m ready to go to college, to start a new chapter of my life, learn new things and meet new people. I think that meeting new people is one of the best things in life because you can learn from their best qualities and also worse qualities so you don’t make the same mistakes. I consider myself a very lucky and unique guy because I can speak three languages and I can almost do anything on my own.
At the beginning of my junior year my sister graduated and moved to Wisconsin when she obtained a scholarship for swimming. At this point my mom decided to move back to Italy so she could provide a better income for my sister and I. My mom gave me the chance to move back with her, but I knew that if I did I was going to waste the two years that I already spent in the United States. So I moved in my friend’s cottage and I’ve been living there for a year now and at the beginning it was pretty hard not seeing my mom every day and having her drive me to school or eating her amazing dinners. Eventually with time I got used to it and I realized that this experience is making me a more mature and independent person and I think this will help a lot with my future because this isn’t something many people have the chance to do.
Now I’m a senior and I’m ready to go to college, to start a new chapter of my life, learn new things and meet new people. I think that meeting new people is one of the best things in life because you can learn from their best qualities and also worse qualities so you don’t make the same mistakes. I consider myself a very lucky and unique guy because I can speak three languages and I can almost do anything on my own.
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