At the beginning of this week we began by two extra days of workshops to work on our videos. I had already finished mine the week before so, I didn't really have much to do for those first few days. After additional days of working on our videos and making sure they were uploaded to YouTube, we all sat down as a class to watch everyone's final This I Believe videos. We were able to watch videos from people in both hours of the class and I liked that because I was able to hear from people that I don't see everyday and I was able to learn a little bit more about them. Seeing the direction everyone went with their videos was very interesting because everyone's was a little different. Personally, I liked the videos that had personal pictures in it so it was more intimate with the presenter. In my video, I tried to change the pictures often and use a variety of stock footage to make sure the audience didn't get bored while watching. I tried to use pictures that the class would find entertaining and funny from my past. I wasn't here when the class watched my video, but I like to think that everyone enjoyed it and liked hearing my story. The website I used the most to collect my free stock footage was https://videos.pexels.com/ . I found it was really easy to navigate and had a really good variety of videos.
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This week we worked on putting the finishing touches on our This I Believe projects. personally, I recorded my voice, collected images and videos to use in my video, and began putting the video together. I used the program Adobe Premier Pro to work on my video because that is the program that I am most comfortable with for working with it in my digital media class. I collected various stock footage from different websites and looked through my old pictures to figure out which ones I wanted to use. The most difficult part was finding footage that made sense with what I was saying but also looked good and matched the tone of the video that I was intending. I found the website called Pexels the most helpful, as they had a variety of categories and endless videos you could browse through and download. After finishing putting my video together, I showed it to my mom and she ended up crying while watching it. I also had many of friends look over it before I called it finished so I could get constructive criticism from them and make sure the video was to the standard that I wanted it to be. I am really happy with how it turned out and it was just as I imagined it to be. I really enjoyed this project because I was able to release my creativity as well as share a personal story of mine to the whole class. This is the link to the final video that I created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJkNz_jrU_A We began the week by talking about a new project we will be taking on. This I Believe. We were able to chose from a selection of TED talks to listen to that gave tips about telling a story to your audience effectively. The one I watched was about using media to appeal to all senses and the speaker focused mostly on comic books because he was a comic book artist. I believe watching these and hearing about the other TED talks from the class provided me with really good tips I can incorporate into my project and telling my story. Choosing the story I was going to tell and the belief I feel strongly about was hard for me at first. I couldn't think of a story from my life that was significant enough to share or something that people would actually care about. It was also to think of a belief to talk about just because there are so many to choose from. Eventually, after talking to my mom I figured out exactly what to do. I will be writing the story about when I moved from Louisville, Kentucky to Mt. Pleasant. It was a big change for me and I'm not a huge fan of change. For this reason, the belief I incorporated into it was that change is good and van lead to a happier life. If you don't know what This I Believe really is, this link provides great examples of some essays: http://www.hasd.org/faculty/KristineCompton/This%20I%20Believe%20Sample%20Essays.pdf This week we focused a lot on a new topic that brought some thought and concern to a lot of the class considering most people our age spend a lot of time on the internet. We close read two articles about how websites are able to take the information you enter into their website, analyze it, and follow your actions on the internet with it. They can even have access to medical and financial information that you might not even know that they have. This has become a concern with many people because the websites are most of the time doing this without the customer even knowing, which can be considered an invasion of privacy. In class we were to pick a side of the argument, if we thought the government should be doing a better job of making sure citizens are getting the privacy they deserve. We read the articles, close read them and took notes, and discussed with partners in order to get a handle on which side of the argument we wanted to take. The internet is a scary place and is never as private as you think. Pretty much anyone can see anything you put up online and nothing is ever really permanently deleted. This also makes the internet a scary place and everyone should make sure to think twice before posting something online. This article tells about how you can help protect your online privacy: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052813/3-essential-techniques-to-protect-your-online-privacy.html |
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