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!
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.
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."
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!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
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!
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!
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
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.
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 2: Annemarie , Nicholas A , Matthew , Luke
, Matthew S
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 One: Mikaelah , Atiana , Madison , Shelby ,
Brooks
This is a very rough draft of my video. I was having difficulty getting on to movie maker until i found out it was deleted off of my hard-drive and so i got it back but this is my attempt of playing around with the editing tools. Stay tuned for progression...
This is my first rough draft of my documentary. I had a lot of trouble editing my videos together on iMovie. I have never used iMovie before, so it took me a long time to figure everything out. I had to use google to figure out how to use certain features, but I think I'm finally getting the hang of it haha. I am still going to add a voiceover in the beginning of the video, and music during the still shots.
I finished editing my whole rough draft today. I am pretty confident with my cut aways and voiceovers. The only part I might changer is the sound quality on some of the parts. Overall, that is pretty much it. Let me hear your feedback. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
I'm doing pretty well on my documentary so far. The hardest part for me is definitely the editing since I have never really filmed anything before. I need a little work on my cutaway shots and fixing some of the sounds in my video. I need to add some minor editing to the documentary and I should be ready to go. Everything is going well and the only real problem is that I am not that good with imovie.
My documentary is going pretty well. I have some very good cut away shots from my friends that went to Cabo including the person I am interviewing. I am also working with other people to help me put the video all together because I am not always the best at putting the final copy together. I am very excited for the finishing touches to be put to my documentary.
Here is my draft of my documentary With my topic I decided still pictures would be of better use as cutaways rather than live footage of my dad at a desk. It took me a while to figure out all the editing stuff for the audio and what not, but eventually I got it figured out.. For the most part.
My documentary is going pretty well, i am working with people that i know that are good at editing videos because i'm not very good at it. I have been having difficulty uploading my videos and interview to youtube because they are more than 3 minutes long. I have them on my iMovie but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to post them on here because the blogger video doesn't allow anyone to view it! I have found the most difficult part of this being the uploading and editing part. I am having the hardest time technologically because i have never done anything like this before. I would love for all of the interview to be in my documentary but i found that it was too long so i need to edit it. Overall, I just need more help on the uploading and editing of the videos. My interview is the strongest part of my documentary and now i just need to add a few things.
My documentary has been coming along very well. However, I have been having a lot of technological difficulties. I have been shooting the footage on my phone; however, my phone is not wanting to connect with my computer. Therefore, I was not able to get my videos uploaded. I having been trying to figure out this issue, but I have not been successful. I then decided to use my friends phone to re-record all of my footage. I was able to upload it on his computer and begin editing it on iMovie since I find it much easier than my PC for editing. It is still a little bit rough because I am new to video editing. I am having a hard time deciding when cutaways fit best and also how to make it into a smooth transition. I also had to re-record some more footage due to the sound quality. I had to do a lot of experimenting to find out what setting would be best for the audio. I am also having a hard time choosing what I want to put in my video and where. I still feel like I might do some more rearranging in order to make the video flow smoother.
My rough draft is pretty rough because I need to reshoot stuff and add more. I will be home this weekend so I will be able to do this.
This is the link to my documentary draft. It is coming along nicely and I have not had too many issues. As you can see I need a couple more cut away's for the B-roll. But I already have a couple so I don't think it's too much of a problem. My interviewee is still very excited about this project which makes it more fun to film when she is also enjoying the process.
This is my rough draft on my friend Kristie and her experiences with Camp Kesem, a week long summer camp that is provided to children whose parents have been affected by cancer for FREE. Kristie's mom was diagnosed many years ago with triple negative breast cancer, so she will have it until she dies. The transition from being a little kid one day to having to become an adult the next changed her life. Kristie and I both share the fact that we have had our mom's affected by cancer, and I am very honored to have met her. This is a very rough outline, I have not yet put in cutaways, or much of her singing, talking yet.
The way I have been making my production log is that i've been just writing down my thoughts and/or opinions about my project. At first i really didn't know what to shoot so i decided to just shoot random clips of just random stuff. However, after a while i decided on what my documentary should be on. i decided to shoot it on one of my close friends and the struggles he faced getting to college as well as his transition from a lower education school system to a college setting. The first interview i wanted to do questions that were narrow and then move towards broad questions. This interview im still making my transition into my broad question. Its going to be a little more work than i expected but ill have it done.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
My documentary is about a girl that has been my best friend since the 7th grade. The topic I picked is just about her experience at ASU. We talked about her transition to college, her major, her career path and a few challenges she's had so far in college. I find it hard to sit down with her to work on this project because we both have very busy schedules that don't match up. Soon we will have to plan a date to get together and finish it up.
Here is a still shot I took today of her browsing the ASU homepage and searching about the career she would like to go into.
So I reposted my first interview with my dad, and I wasn't able to see him to do the cutaways so I just recorded my desk as an example that I'll shoot a cutaway of him looking at old pictures of him while deployed, as well as one of his troops that passed away. I'll use this footage while he recounts to me the details of the event that took place. This weekend I plan to finish up my interview with my dad and get all my video editing finish and out of the way.
So, as of today I will use this notebook to log and take
note of any plans or ideas I have for my project.
Thus far, my project has consisted of mostly thinking of
simple and small things that I can implement into my documentary. A week ago, I
was thinking of doing my topic on my Younglife church group. I wanted to
compare video of our group, to how people view us from the outside. But when I
began to think more about it…I realized that it isn’t really practical because
most of my old friends are gone. I thought it would be better to do a
documentary on something that really applies to people of ASU.
I wanted to pick a topic that differed in meaning for all
people, but was an undeniable issue. These are my ideas:
·Sleep in college ·Lack of study places oFit all types of study habits ·Cost of pretty much anything ·Dorms and their quality ·Expectations
3/31
So I decided to do my documentary on the lack of quality
study areas. And how they do not fit the need of all people. I need a room that
is absolutely quiet. This is essentially impossible to find.
I did a pre interview with my friends, Chris Wilson and
Ryota Wilson. I will most likely redo Ryota’s.
I need to work on finding editing software. I don’t have one
on my laptop, not even Imovie
4/7/14
New questions for redoing the interview:
Hi how are you?
So (name), how would you describe the size of
ASU’s Student population?
What’s that like, having so many people?
With so many students, where and when are you
able to study?
Why do you
study there?
Should you have to?
I’ve been thinking of some reasonable songs that I can use
in the documentary. I listened to, “Smoke a Little Smoke” by Eric Church and it
hit me. That was the perfect song!
4/8/14
I read the interview questions from above, and they are
terrible. I want to rewrite them in a form that guides them toward my goal.
New Questions for Ryota:
1.How are you doing today? Did you have any
classes? 2.Is that your most difficult class? 3.For, (class), how often do you study and for how
long? 4.How would you describe Arizona State University? 5.As a freshman living on Campus, what has most
surprised you about Arizona State University? 6.According to the Us Department of Education, ASU
ranks 4th in overall Student enrollment. Can you visually see it? 7.With such a large student body, where and when
are you able to study? 8.Are there any quiet places on Campus to study? 9.Why do you study in such places other than your
dorm?
I
am a bit worried about being able to convey the message that is in my
documentary. I want those watching to realize that I am irritated by the fact
that ASU only gives us Hayden library to study. We go and study in the lecture
halls, and I am technically not supposed to be doing that. I am only able to
because I am physics major. We are forced into that situation by the lack of
quality places to do our studies.
I
am also a bit worried by some of the sound, but not so much. It could have been
worse. Ryota had trouble speaking sociably because he is from Japan and
struggles with English. But what I am really worried about….am I am able to use
that music? What are the laws on that???
