Thursday, August 25, 2011

Reflections on Project 1

About the product:  Critique your final product. What skills does the final product show you have learned? What did you like about the final product? What would you like to improve on or learn next that would help you create better products?

About the process: Describe what you did to help your partner and what your partner did to help you. What helped you understand or best figure out the skills you needed to learn? What challenges did you face/overcome with the technology?

Enrichment for Project 1

View the tutorial on transistions at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrHoiPx9sOw.

Apply a CROSS-DISSOLVE to your video to fade out at the end. You can also try using the cross-dissolve to fade in.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Thinking about Values and Video

Your first big project will be to create a video like the ones on the Values.com website.  You already looked at several of these. Now post the video below ("Wet Cement") to your own blog, following the instructions for embedding a video.
Below underneath the video on your blog, answer these questions:
--What is the message of this video?
--What actions communicate the message?
--What do you notice about the elements the filmmaker included? Think about facial expressions, the position of each character, when we see the cement worker, the contrast in voices, the light, the camera angles, and any other elements you can pick out that help communicate the message.