And the winner is...

Thank you to everyone for your amazing work this semester. The votes cast at our film festival have been tallied and the results are in. What a strong batch of films!

Best Picture: “Being a New Father” by Mikaelah Robledo

Runner Up: “Cyndney Couch on America’s Got Talent Season” by Shelby McNicol. 

 

Best Editing in Sound and Video:  Brooks Butterfield for “ Hoops ”
Runner Up: Mikaelah Robeledo for “ Being a New Father ”

Best Cinematography (tie): Brooks Butterfield for “ Hoops ”  and Mikaelah Robeledo for “Being a New Father”

 Best Subject: Destiny Feely for  Camp Kesem Magic”
Runner Up (tie): Brianna Sniff for “ Over the Hill ” and Jordin Smith for “ The Interminable Marathon ”

 Honorable Mention: Luke Fuller for “ Volleyball…Oouh Kill Em ”
Runner Up:  Bradley Crabtree for “ Army Strong ”

Winners, email me with an address where I can send your well-deserved and high quality trophies. Congratulations to our winners and runners-up, and to all of us for surviving the semester.

Happy summer!

Film Festival 5/1/2014 Program Details

If your name or hyperlink isn't here, I am missing your film information. Please get it to me ASAP for possible inclusion in the film festival. 

Title and Director

“Being a New Father” by Mikaelah Robledo “Is it about my brother and what it is like to be a new dad,” says the filmmaker.

“Alien” by Atiana Bower.  Taking a look at life from the inside.

“Ball is Life” by Warsame Warsame It is about a boy from Bangladesh who loves the sport of basketball.

“Hoops” by Brooks Butterfield. An inside look at the art of hula hooping.

“A Freshman Experience” by Ryan Ditsworth A brief documentary highlighting the positive and negative experiences of an ASU freshman.

“Cyndney Couch on America’s Got Talent Season” by Shelby McNicol. Taking a look at my roomamte’s life on television (America’s Got Talent) and the experience she gained from it.

“Finding a Voice” by Madison Cochran Scott Parkmna, the president of RHA, talks about his experiences in RHA and how the organization has made him grow as a person.

“As Seen Through Me” by Nicholas Ahumada. A documentary of my friend’s freshman experiences here at ASU.

“The Life of Hali Smith” by Kara Dawson A quick peep into the life of a first time Arizona State University freshman.

“Progressive Education” by Andrew Durkiewicz My documentary is about how Arizona State University has failed to supply its students with sufficient amount of study areas.

“Volleyball…Oouh Kill Em” by Luke Fuller Chris explains his volleyball experience while also featuring some physical clips of in-game action.

“The Pastor” by Matthew Warwick. Pastor Doug Warwick is a pastor of a small church and this shows a small look into his point of view.

“The Road Not Taken” by Nicholas Hernandez. It is about my friend’s basketball career and how his injuries led to the end of it all.

“Chinese Transition” by Annemarie Garrett This is about my Chinese roommate and how living in a different country is different for her.

“The Interminable Marathon” by Jordin Smith The accounts of a Bostonian regarding the Boston marathon bombing.

“Army Strong” by Bradley Crabtree My documentary is about my friend Robbie who comes from a very military-oriented family and is now going into the Army.

“Camp Kesem Magic” by Destiny Feely This documentary gives some insight on Camp Kesem and how it affects people for the better—in this case, my friend Kristie.

“Lonesoul” by Matthew Shurtleff A developing clothing brand designed by a good friend of mine named Travis Conner

“Delta Gamma: The Ship Show” by Emily Tate It is about how Delta Gamma can impact someone’s life and change it for the better.

“A Huge Transition” by Kyle Worth A recap of my girlfriend’s thoughts about coming to ASU

“Over the Hill” by Briana Sniff Just my dad explaining some of his adventures throughout a 24-year career in the military. “Hoops for High School” by Chloe Cabrera A brief look into how my brother plans to up his training for high school basketball.

Submit Your Work for Money, Fame, and Fortune

Here are some places you should consider submitting your short film. I don't work for free--neither should you! Let's find a home for these little beauties.


 "Short of the Week" From their website: "Join the most innovative storytellers of today and submit your film for consideration on Short of the Week. After years of watching thousands of online shorts, we've found that all great shorts share four qualities: relevant, unique, emotional, and entertaining. It can be fun or disturbing, but something about the film compels you to watch it through to the end. Quite simply, we look for greatness."

Telluride Film Festival  is currently accepting submissions to be included in their festival.

ASU Film Festival We have just missed the closing deadline for this year's festival, but keep an eye out for next year's and submit then!

Digication Tutorial 

This week, you'll need to complete this portfolio and reflection for 5% of your final grade. Below please find an illustrated tutorial on how to create this portfolio. Let's check in on Thursday to troubleshoot any difficulties. 

Sign into My.ASU.edu and click on the Campus Services Tab.

Scroll to the Jobs and Careers section and click on the Digication ePortfolio

Click the green plus sign next to My e-Portfolios

Give this puppy a name. Instead of starting from scratch, you'll use the class template. To find it, click the link for "More Templates."

Click the tab to search My Courses. Choose Current Courses and then find our course. Click Select to use the template.

Choose these settings.

Here's what the template looks like. Notice there are tabs for each project.

To add text, select Add this Module

Fill in the text box with the required material--there's a page for a bio and then pages for each writing project. Just copy and paste the material into the text box and click 1) Save and 2) Publish this Page

Confirm these changes by clicking Publish All Changes

Move to the next page and repeat for each writing project, saving and publishing each page.

Customize the look of your portfolio under Portfolio Tools --> Settings

Scroll to the button that says Customize

Add a sweet photo and maybe a header. Save your changes and rejoice! You're done! We'll talk about the reflection tab on Thursday.

By Tuesday Midnight:

Respond to this post in a comment with the Title of your film and a One-Sentence Description.

By Wednesday Midnight:

1) Post your Film/Director's Commentary (either film or essay version) to the appropriate Blackboard links (there are two).
2) Post Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3 to DIGICATION Portfolio.

Thursday:
Come to class on time and ready to view your classmates films. Invite friends and family if you'd like! Refreshments will be served and awards will be voted on. The Studoc awards!
 

YESSSS LETS DO THISSSS

Sample Letter

Dear Andrew,
Thank you for allowing us to view your work. I really enjoyed the interviews with these two gentlemen who seem to have a terribly difficult workload and not many good, quiet places to study. It seems to me that your intention was to highlight the conditions here at ASU, an enormous school with demanding scholastic work and not enough resources and the way these conditions affect students, perhaps international students most of all. The content flowed well—the interview was on topic for the video’s entirety and I liked the cutaways you used in the first interview. The second interview perhaps suffered from not having any cutaways or indeed any additional editing—it got a little long for me. At the end of the doc I find myself wondering how I should feel—I think perhaps a moment or two with each of your subjects that touches on something personal that they have lost due to their school requirements may lend the documentary a bit of gravity and some emotional pull. Looking forward to the final cut!

Courtney 

Group Four

Please post your documentary here: either in a link to the Youtube page or a link to this blog where you posted it last week. Please then watch and respond to all group members blogs in a letter to each member, answering the following questions:

1) Does it make sense?
2) What is the filmmaker's intention as far as you can tell?
3) How is the "flow" for a) content and b) editing?
4) How does it make you feel?

Tell the filmmaker what is going well and what needs clarifying or enhancing. Suggest edits, ask questions, comment on the feeling you are left with at the end. At least 1/2 page double spaced for each letter. Bring digital or paper copies with you on Thursday to class.

Group 4: Bradley , Brianna , Nicholas , Jordin , Chloe