Reflection on Blog

Early in  the year, I learned the importance of film-making. You can see that on my first film, Baler Interviews, I didin't even know how to upload videos to youtube. I also didin't understand how to use Premiere Pro. I had to watch my partner edit a big part of the video so I can then do it. The first video was difficult for me. On my second video, Extracting and Overlays, I did a little better. I learned how to use Premiere Pro much better. I wrote in my reflection that I didin't know how to make the titles that go with the videos, but know Im actually pretty good at it. I got got better as we kept making more videos. At first, I realized that i don't like being in videos, what I like is doing them and editing. It was really difficult for me to understand at first how you do clips and how Premiere Pro works because im not a fast learner. But with time, I did much better and I understood more by the second semester.

What I learned in this class is that making films is not an easy thing to do. When I watch films now, I think about what I've learned this year. I see the different types of shots they use, over the shoulder shots, and angles. I also lerned how this class works. Im much better at editing films, using Premiere Pro, uploading videos to you tube and to my blog. I also see that even a 30 seconds commercial or clip takes kind of a long time. First they have to write a script, which actually does help to organize how you want your video. Then you have to see what type of shots you have to use to get the message across in your video. Making films is not an easy thing but this whole year I've learned how to do it in my teledramatic arts class.

Final Video

   This is a film based on interviews about students at San Benito. They wanted to say good bye and thank a teacher that helped them this year. I think this is a good video so that the teachers can see that the students appreciate their help. They are going to miss their teachers and before they leave, they want to thank a teacher.

A boy With a Dream

In this story, Cesar and I were trying to evoke the idea that we need to learn to forgive. This story is about a kid who is playing baseball but he accidentally breaks a man's car window. It starts off that he is lonely in the park but then his friends come over to him and ask him to play baseball. He didin't mean to, but he broke a car window. The owner of the car shows up and seems mad but he smiles at the boy and says everything is okay. He didin't want the kid to feel bad by screaming at him, so he tells him to continue playing the game. At the end of the day, the sun is going down and the kids still don't want to leave, but they know they have to go home so they walk away into the sunset. I like how the image of the window turned out, it was a few seconds. This image was used to show that the boy was scared and didin't know what to do after breaking someone's window. Different effects were added to the video to show a type of illusion and abstract. The whole video has some abstract in it. Colors were used to suggest the mood to show the fear, the sadness, and the happiness of the story. There are some colors that just go with the emotions the boy was feeling. I learned that music is very important in a video. It shows emotions, like if someone were sad, you would have a sad song, and it's the same for other emotions. My partner, Cesar, chose the abstract that goes with the images. Picking the images was a little hard. We needed to find the pictures that described our story and what we want the viewers to understand.