Special Effects

For the first effect, you choose “wave warp” in the “distort” folder. You want to adjust the height of the wave to 33. Changing the Direction to 128 shifts the angle at which the waves look. You might use this as a transition into a flashback. For the secnd effect, you choose “strobelight” in the “Stylize” folder. You want to adjust the strobe perod to .9, the strobe duration to .5 and random strobe probability to 9%. You might use this effect to simulate flashing lights from cameras, paparazzi. For the third effet, you choose lens flare in the generate folder. You want to adjust the flare center at 288, 192 to -22, 329. You might use this effect to emphazise how bright the sun is shining to simulate summer time. Joselyn and John

Comments and Suggestions

This post is from Joselyn and John.
The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from Kaycee and Kelsey and Michaela C. and Ashley T. Kaycee/Kelsey told us that the music worked well in the beginning, and that was helpful because it showed us that we were able to create the mood that we were going for. In addition, Michaela/Ashley told us that the pan of the the last slice was very effective, and that helped us see that certain shots help build and emphasize certain points.

The two best suggestions we got were from Kaycee/Kelsey and Chris/Brad.

Kaycee/Kelsey suggested that we find a way to make the pizza not disappear in the light. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to use another clip that focuses on the pizza and then cut back to Jacob giving the pizza.

Chris/Brad suggested that we cite our sources. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is by finishing our credits.
Positive comments
We especially like the pan-over of the pizza and table at the beginning of the video because is helped emphasize the idea of the last peice of pizza.-Michaela C. and Ashely T.
What we liked best was the use of the house as a background and the edits- Brad and Chris
The music was worked well in the beginning when they were watching tv; it created a laid back feeling.-Kelsey and Kaycee
We also like the close up of both guys when they are confused about hearing the voice, and the high angle of them looking around the room-Kelsey and Kaycee
We especially like the close up shot of John on the floor because it showed that Jake won the pizza-Isaiah and Cesar
We especially like the close up shot of john on the floor beacause it helped emphasize that they had just fought. –Michaela and Cole


Suggestions
We would just suggest shortening the fade-out clip after the fight-Michaela C. and Ashely T.
You could add to the resolution by showing some more facial expression, this would help us see how they feel about giving/recieving the pizza.-Chris and Brad
Our stongest suggestion is somehow fixing the disappearing pizza when jacob is holding it at the end.-Kelsey and Kaycee
cite your sources because you can get into trouble for that-chris and brad

Just Pizza

REFLECTION 1) What value are you trying to represent? - In our video we're representing sharing as our value. 2) What do you think your group has done well? - I think that our group has put ideas together well and decided how to combine them to improve our video. 3) What do you still need to complete? - We need to add the eding of the video as well as the voice over. 4) What are you most in need of feedback about? (We want to know if..., We're wondering if this camera angle worked when...etc.) - We want to know if we got the point of sharing easily understood in our video. 5) Identify a challenge your group discovered and faced in creating the film. Focus on a challenge about how to best tell your story. Describe how you dealt with that challenge, including discussions you had, things you tried and decided to leave out, and what you ultimately did to address it. - One challenged we faced was that not everyone on our group was in the film. we dealt with this situation by continuing to film with a different set up. Morgan & Joselyn

Edited Video

In this video there was rule of thirds. The camera focused on both Jacob and Morgan. The over the shoulder shots show the expressions of each character. It showed when Jacob was not that excited and the camera focused on his expression. Close ups show the character's face and if they are mad, sad or happy. There were a lot of close ups in this clip to show the emotions and expressions in their face. This was challenging to edit because I had to put it all together but I think I did a good job on it. The mood of Morgan is happy and there was a close up on Jacob to show that he was kind of dissapointed. This exercise is to show what the characters are feeling just by looking at their face and also to show over the shoulder shots wich are used when a character is talking. This is what over the shoulder shots are useful for.

Holiday Greetings

I think my partner and I did well on the music and the border we added. We did our script the best we could do it. What would have been nice to do was what Michelle and Taylor did by how they went from one video to another. I liked this because it was just really nice and creative. Me and Kaycee did the same work because I edited my clip and she did hers. If I had another chance to complete this, I would probably change the music because it didin't really go with the places we were in. But that's the only thing I would change because I like how we did our video.

Blog Reflection

I think my group abd I did really good on our final video. We got a list of things we needed to fix and we did them. We worked together and tried our best on this project. We explained what cyberbullying is very well. We also got opinions from other students. I liked the feedback that we got because it helped a lot and we fixed our mistakes. I also liked giving other people feedback because that helped them a lot too with their final videos.

5 things I learned

I liked this video a lot.One thing I learned is that it is important to put titles to introduce the people. It is also important to cut between a long interview and add something. This group made titles but you can also make it fade away. I also learned how to make clean cuts.