special_effects

For the effect below i choose "solarize" in the "stylize" folder i adjusted the Threshold to 56. I got stobelight from the "stylize" folder and adjusted the "random strobe" to 50%, the effects i choose don't really have a theme to them i can't see them being of some sort. I just really liked them.

special_effects

Reflection on rough draft. 3-15-12

1) What value are you trying to represent?
The value we did was honesty because we were showing that the person that cheated turned himself in.
2) What do you think your group has done well?
what i think the group did best on was individual jobs that we had to do and filming, everyobe pitched on in ideas while we were recording scenes.
3) What do you still need to complete?
What we still need to complete is the teacher scene. (jakes part)
4) What are you most in need of feedback about? (We want to know if..., We're wondering if this camera angle worked when...etc.)
I think what we most need feedback about it is, the sounds. Everything else i think we did fine on.
5) Identify a challenge your group discovered and faced in creating the film. Focus on a challenge about how to best tell your story. Describe how you dealt with that challenge, including discussions you had, things you tried and decided to leave out, and what you ultimately did to address it.
A problem that we had was when the script was all finished it really wasn't.. we had to change some parts like characters and names and lines, we changed a scene from a classroom to a detention hour to show that the scene is "bad". when we wrote the script the main part was a student coppied and the teacher asks "whos test's are these and why are they both the same?" the tests already have the students name on them. so what we changed was we had the teachers lines change to "both of them need need to stay during break". the video flows and has a nice straight to the point theme.

Reflection

Before we filmed we made sure to read through the script a few times to really understand it and we realized what facial expressions needed to be exaggerated on some lines. Our video did not have the rule of thirds because it was just straight in the middle rather to the side. The rule of thirds is to show two people are having a conversation even though we shot each person individually. The dialouge in our video did look very realistic because of how our edits were. what i learned out of all of this was the process of filming us individually was easier then how we were going to (at the same time)i did try my best when ivy was filiming me and emily.

Cha Ching!

what i think me and Blanca did a good job on was our backgrouds, and just how we presented ourselves in the video. I really liked watching the video when it was all completed. Parts that i really liked in the video were how we were having a conversation and that our video was short and sweet. We took awhile on editing the video just because we needed help on some of the things that we have never done before such as a 'split screen'. When we were looking for music for the video it didn't really take us that long because we found one that we really liked quickly. Music flowed alot in our video, i know we did well on keeping the volume appropriate at times when it needed to be. when i saw other groups do things like have a random funny part i thought that looked really cool and wished i did something like it.What we did to create the video was we used green screen and used backgrrounds that fit the scene that we were supose to be in.
what i did to help my partner was when she'd be editing the video i'd tell her my ideas and she'd change it if she thought it was a good idea too. My partner helped me when it was time to switch when we were working on premiere pro because i am not that good at it. What i would do differently would probably be fixed the ending. clean it up because that was our weakest part of the video. I would of made it more exciting too.

5 Things.

One thing i learned was to not make the music so loud when other people are talking like during an interview. I also learned that you could make a serious video funny by adding in little clips, i think this attracts the audiences attention. Things i noticed during peoples videos were how good their choice of music was and how much it could fit the mood about the point they are trying to make, that definatley caught my eye and im sure it did to others. Another thing i learned was cyberbullying happens alot on facebook, i really liked how this one group mentioned that a couple times because alot of teenagers have facebook. This really drew out the message where cyberbully happens. I really liked the credits on most of the videos because the music was sad so it made me leave my seat thinking about the situation. It basically changed my mood that i was in. I liked how the music on some videos was very pumped up in places that were really necessary. In this one video the ending showed a boy walking away, this made me really think about many things because it could symbolize more then one thing, some of the things it could symbolize are he could of been "walking away"from cyberbullying or how cyberbullying will cause a negative effect on a person so they end up leaving life. Also in this video it was very eyecatching because there was a scene where Mr Vela brought somebody to the office. This showed that ifyou cyberbully you can get introuble at school for it. Alot of these videos really gave me ideas for my group.