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It’s Time To Reflect! Term 1

Hi y’all and welcome back to another blog post. Since term one is ending, today, I will be talking about and reflecting on all of the videos that I had done this term. So, let’s get right into it!

4 Shot Film

Empowered Learner:  I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals 

For this video, being the first video that we had made this year, I think that we did a pretty good job. The video quality of when Ms Maxwell was walking up could have been better if it wasn’t blurred up and the music at the end. Although this video may not have been perfect, I think that I was really surprised as to how it turned out with the angles, shots, organization and roles and it has definitely started this year full of videos off strong. Which is why, I think that my group and I had leveraged technologies and have taken an active role in achieving and demonstrating our learning goals. 

Ghost Town Film

Knowledge Constructor: I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others 

Similar to what I had said in my Alberta Reflection Post, this video did turn out pretty well, minus, the communication on who was bringing a cowboy hat and not using “landscape” during the whole course of filming. But we did all cooperate very well together. The editing was all done in iMovie but the writing at the beginning was done by Jude. If I had time (and wifi) at that time, I would’ve made my own music for the video. But I definitely learned some new things in the process of planning, filming and editing.

Drumheller Documentary

Creative Communicator: I communicated clearly and expressed myself creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to my goals. 

Just like what I said in my Alberta Reflection Post, since this was a surprise task, we had very little time to plan, film and edit our videos. But, during this video, I did not waste any time and persisted well. I definitely had some troubles with the audio at times but in reality, I think that that was the only real flaw other than maybe trying to communicate more information about the artifact. For this task, we could only use Clips, an apple application. I thought that this was great because I got to learn a little more about this app and plus, it took less time to edit. But, I wasn’t fully comfortable with it because I hadn’t used it very much in the past. 

Alberta People Video

Innovative Designer: I used a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions 

As you could probably see in my This Land Is Us Project Reflection Post, my original and final video were very different and you could see a huge improvement between the two. I always made sure to be having a good eye for things when filming my video. I had planned all the questions that I was asking people in the course of the video but they had changed a little bit during the trip because I had began to be more specific with what type of content I wanted in my video. I rotated between my phone and iPad everyday because one of them on its own could not last the whole day. 

“Run” Remake Video

Computational Thinker: I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions 

I think that the original and final video had a huge difference, not to mention, the video quality was so much better. For the original video, where Finn and Brenton made the horror music. I had made the horror music for the last one. The thing that sucked for me though, was that I had no idea how to make horror music from scratch. Luckily, I had searched up many, many tutorials that didn’t make much sense and most were not from this update, that eventually ended up with the music that you hear in the final video. It wasn’t too good but definitely pretty god considering I had no idea what I was doing.

French Revolution Heritage Minute Video

Knowledge Constructor: I can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful experiences for myself and others 

This video, being our first of many revolution videos, wasn’t all that bad. Just like I said in my Revolution Post, the video quality and editing was good but, we could have perhaps filled in some missing information for some things that happened in between the events that were described and talked about in the video. My group persisted and worked together very well in the making of this video which really started our revolution project off strong. We only really used iMovie and maybe GarageBand for some music. I definitely think that we could’ve gotten some better shots for the last event but still, it was really good. 

American Revolution Rap Video

Innovative Designer: I used a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions 

In this video, we definitely used quite a variety of apps to get this video together and this definitely took the longest time to film and edit. We used GarageBand, iMovie, Pages (a lot, for the lyrics), voice memos and many of our devices to film. This video was the hardest to manage out of all of them because it took the most time and planning but it was definitely worth it. We had some problems to overcome such as, using our time well and not practicing the lines enough. 

Russian Revolution John Green Video

Computational Thinker: I developed and employed strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions 

When it came to this video, we had amazing communication an planning with our props, backdrop and lines. The thing was, there was a problem about WHERE we would be filming. During the block that we had to film it, we had to move our set around because there were some communication issues with the people who originally allowed us to film there. Still, the video turned out great and I think that this may have been one of our best. 

Final French Revolution John Green and Animation Video

Empowered Learner:  I have leveraged technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in my learning goals 

This final video, certainly did put all of our best skills from the other revolution videos into one. It may have been a little too long, but I think it was fine. Since our last video didn’t have enough information, we wanted to get more in there but we ended up with a little too much. For the last video, we were certain to as to what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it and definitely achieved those goals. 

Take Your Kid To Work Day Video

Creative Communicator: I communicated clearly and expressed myself creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to my goals. 

Even though, I had some extreme technical issues with losing all of my interviews and other media that I had taken that day, it all worked out. I went back there and re-filmed all of my b-roll and shots but didn’t get to re-film the interview with my mom. I still liked the different angles that I took, how synced it was with the music and my creativity with the different transitions and editing details in iMovie. I had a plan of how I wanted my video to look like but I thought of an even better way to put it all together.

To conclude, I have really enjoyed creating all of these videos. Even though, it may take more time with the screenplays, the storyboards, the call sheets, the filming, editing and publishing, it was definitely worth it. Plus, I can look back at all of those videos when I’m older! I am super looking forward to continuing making these videos and maybe, by the end of this year, to be a master video maker! 

It’s A Revolution!

Heeeelllllloooooo and welcome back to my blog! Today I am reflecting on a project that we had been doing for the past 6 weeks. During the course of this project, we had used skills that we learned from our other class, maker. Skills such as making screenplays, storyboards and call sheets. Our driving question for this project was “How Do Ideas Drive Change?”.
*reflection on driving question*Now, let’s get onto the actual reflection shall we?

First I will be reflecting on the curricular competencies that we were being assessed on in this project.

Cause and Consequence:
When completing notes when learning about a revolution, I assessed the causes and consequences of those revolutions on a template in Notability. This helped me seperate and distinguish the parts of our video to make it more of a timeline which would make it much more organized.

Evidence:
During the course of this project I always did extra research to fill in some gaps of information for our videos/screenplays. For example, when we were doing the Russian revolution, I went out and watched several videos to get the most exact information possible.

Create and Extend Shared Understanding:
My group and I often discussed about certain events that we would be talking about in our videos, some information said that it happened at different times on different sources and others had several different details to those events.

Text Comprehension and Appreciation Strategies:
When creating and editing my videos, I think that I could’ve payed more attention to applying the appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral and visual texts to extend my thinking and appreciate how different features, forms and genres of text reflect different purposes, audiences and messages. For example, doing my best of making most of the audios in the videos more consistent if the app doesn’t glitch as much.

Next, I will be showing you and reflecting on my products that I had made during the course of this project. I will also be reflecting on the process of video making process.

French Revolution – Act it out:

This video, being our first one of this project, I thought it wasn’t all that bad. The audio, editing and video quality was good. But, on the other hand, I think that we could’ve had more information about the revolution instead of just 3 or 4 events.

Here is the screenplay:

American Revolution – Rap battle:

For this video, I really liked our lyrics and the fact that we did a rap battle between the patriots and loyalists, it was a great idea and went very well with our subject. But, on the other hand at some points, the sound didn’t match with the video and the editing and the editing could’ve been better as well. But, we had some pretty great shots and lighting.

Here is the screenplay:

Russian Revolution – John Green

I really liked our set in this video, our information that we gave was very clear and that information very well supported thanks to some great visuals. We could’ve changed our audio up a bit or changed locations to get less of an eco and to get better lighting.

Here is our screenplay:

French Revolution – Animations and John Green

For our final video, this one was supposed to be the best video yet, putting every great thing together to make one amazing video. It turned out defineltly being better than our last one but not as amazing as I hoped. Thanks to a whole bunch of glitches on iMovie, there were some pretty big problems with the audio. I also think that we could’ve made our animations longer and have us look down at the screen much much less.

Here is our screenplay:

Also, here’s an example of one of the call sheets that we did:

To conclude, I really enjoyed making videos for this project. Even though it took more  time, I still really enjoyed it and had lots of fun. It was also very interesting to explore different  styles of videos that we can create. Not to mention, putting ourselves in a filmmaker’s place with all the different rules and steps to make a video.

Alberta Trip Reflection

Hi guys! It’s Alex! Back with another blog post! This post, I am reflecting on our trip to Alberta for our PGP course. The driving question for this post is: “How did you persist and manage your impulsivity on this field study in order to question, think and gather data to complete your project and enjoy yourself?”. This question is talking about the work that we did in Alberta. Such as, our Tyrell Video, our Ghost Town Video, our Daily Note and other pictures and documentation we created. So, let’s get right onto the blog post!

Royal Tyrell Video

For this video, even though, we had very little time to plan, film and edit our videos because this was a surprise task, I think I still persisted well into completing this video. I had some troubles with the audio at times, which effected my video quality and I also had trouble finding out what to say that would really interest the viewer. This may not have been my best video yet, but it was pretty good. If I were to do this project again, I would make sure that my audio is understandable and doesn’t hurt the audiences ears (actually putting my mic on my shirt instead of holding it up) I would also put more effort into how I was talking about my artifact. Here is my video:

Ghost Town Video

I think that this video turned out pretty well, my group and I all cooperated very well together and planned everything out. The only thing was that we didn’t communicate well enough to figure out who was bringing the cowboy hat for our film. We had someone who was supposed to bring it but it ended up not being at their house. On the other hand, I still think that we had a good storyline and this video might have been one of the best that I’ve made so far. If I had to do this again, I would just make sure that we are all communicating properly.  

Daily Note

I am pretty proud of how my daily note turned out. I think that my writing was well done, the look of it is not too all over the place, and I got some pretty good pictures as well. I’m also pretty glad that I managed to never be behind and always had my daily note up to date everyday during the trip. But, if I were to do this assignment again, I would probably make my writing a lot shorter because, it is really really long. Here are some examples of what my daily note looks like from my favourite days!

 

Other stuff

When it came to things such as always thinking about how place impacted certain people and getting content for my “This Land Is Us” video, it really varied. In most places, I took a lot of pictures and videos but didn’t interview someone or didn’t think really talk to many people there at least. Other places, I interviewed and talked to lots of people but found that I didn’t get enough pictures and videos from different angles. If I were to redo it again, I would definitely try to keep a good balance between the two.  

 

In conclusion, I think that I did in fact persist and manage my impulsivity very well during this trip. My videos and Daily Note turned out pretty good. If I were to do this trip all over again, I would definitely take more pictures and videos of my trip, especially at the places that I interviewed people at. I also think that I had a good balance between having fun and learning at the same time. This trip was an amazing experience and opportunity to learn about how place impacts certain people because what place better to do it than Alberta the landscapes and different lifestyles are super diverse. Bye and I’ll see you in my next blog post!

 

Alex