Tuesday

Hi Ms. V,

I have to meet with a teacher today so I can't really edit. I hope this is ok. Thanks!

Editing

Marissa is sick today, so it's just me editing. We chopped up all the footage and tried to organize it into offices, classrooms, and specials. Now I'm starting to put it together. The editing is pretty basic--we don't want it to be too crazy for an informational video. We also don't want it to take too long. After the editing we want to do a voice over where we talk a little about our experience or give anecdotes to the shots because the filming is so informational.

What's Happening

We're basically done shooting the footage (except for interviews) and we're going to start editing! We have a variety of classes filmed and I think all of the shots are steady and interesting. Hopefully Mr. Noftsker will set up the interviews soon so we can really begin to put the whole project together. When editing, I think the movie should be interesting, but not too crazy. The purpose is to inform about the school, so while we plant to be creative, we also want to make the movie pretty simple. We've uploaded the clips, so we'll being editing and rendering them today. We are going to edit together, on one computer.

Animoto

I found animoto easy to use and very intuitive to understand. I liked the video it made for me, but I didn't really like using it because my favorite part about making videos is editing them, and animoto does all the editing for you.  I also disliked how the website made the decision of what to leave out if you had too many clips.  I would have preferred it to let me decide what to cut.  Lastly, I wish that it was possible to make the text go over the pictures and video rather than before or after them.  While I found the program easy to use and good at making videos, I would prefer to edit my videos myself.

Media Matters Conference

College Essay: This class wasn't too helpful because we learned more about how to write an essay in general than essays for college. I've already learned a lot about essay writing in school, so I didn't learn anything new.

Iowa to the Whitehouse: This class involved a lot of photojournalism, and since I really like photography, it was interesting to me.  I learned about the importance of objectivity in journalism and the power of photojournalism.  

Reality TV:  This class was much more hands on than the others.  We sat in a circle and all participated, which I liked.  The ideas in it were interesting, but I felt like we didn't have enough time to really learn about them.

Ethnic Media:  I learned the most in this class.  I learned all about the wide variety of ethnic media available today--radio stations, newspapers, TV channels in different languages or highlighting different cultures.  It was cool to see how the ethnicity of journalists effects their points of view.  Even though the information in this class was interesting, it was presented in a boring way.

Overall, I didn't learn a huge amount at the conference, but I still enjoyed it because  I got to see a whole journalism world that I never knew existed.