I really enjoyed Tom's visit to our class last week, he was definitely the best speaker we've had. I think he was the only one who actually showed us how to do stuff.
It took me a while to get used to using Movie Maker, plus I was having some technical difficulties. The little line thingies weren't showing up when I played my clips, so I emailed Sandy in frustrated tears this morning. We weren't able to get that straightened out, but I did go to the IT desk in the library to get some other issues with my computer taken care of. I used one of the computers in Ham-Smith to edit and wasn't able to finish, which is why my interview isn't here. Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun editing when I became a little more comfortable with movie maker and I'm pretty excited to finish editing my interview...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
MIA-- Two weeks in a row
Put bluntly: I am a slacker.
I finally did my first real interviews today with Catie and Brian. I was really, really nervous, but it was pretty fun. Catie was a little difficult to talk to, she spoke very quietly and didn't seem to want to give me much information, I really had to pry stuff out of her. I think she was picking up on my nervousness though. I learned a lot of things about her though that I probably never would have guessed. She referred to herself as a bit of a daredevil, and when she did she got a very scheming look on her face.
Brian, on the other hand, was so, so, so chatty. He's very smart and totally blew me away. He's twelve or thirteen I think (He just started middle school), wants to be a pilot and spent about twenty minutes telling me about how he flew airplanes at summer camp last year. He also had to explain to me what a G-force is and was rattling off the mathematical formula like it was his phone number. I haven't edited either of my interviews yet, I'll save that for another (less stressful) day.
Learning to use Movie Maker in our last class was pretty fun, but once again, frustrating. I'm definitely not the most computer savvy person out there, and when I don't pick up on something right away, I get really, really annoyed. Once again: A personal flaw that I'll need to learn to deal with. I can't really remember all of what Sandy wanted us to write about, so I guess I'm all done for now. I wanted to go to bed early tonight since I had a wicked long weekend, but it's 11:30 and I can't sleep. This is going to be like the Friends episode, "The one where they're up all night".
Is anyone going to Pumpkin Fest this weekend???
I finally did my first real interviews today with Catie and Brian. I was really, really nervous, but it was pretty fun. Catie was a little difficult to talk to, she spoke very quietly and didn't seem to want to give me much information, I really had to pry stuff out of her. I think she was picking up on my nervousness though. I learned a lot of things about her though that I probably never would have guessed. She referred to herself as a bit of a daredevil, and when she did she got a very scheming look on her face.
Brian, on the other hand, was so, so, so chatty. He's very smart and totally blew me away. He's twelve or thirteen I think (He just started middle school), wants to be a pilot and spent about twenty minutes telling me about how he flew airplanes at summer camp last year. He also had to explain to me what a G-force is and was rattling off the mathematical formula like it was his phone number. I haven't edited either of my interviews yet, I'll save that for another (less stressful) day.
Learning to use Movie Maker in our last class was pretty fun, but once again, frustrating. I'm definitely not the most computer savvy person out there, and when I don't pick up on something right away, I get really, really annoyed. Once again: A personal flaw that I'll need to learn to deal with. I can't really remember all of what Sandy wanted us to write about, so I guess I'm all done for now. I wanted to go to bed early tonight since I had a wicked long weekend, but it's 11:30 and I can't sleep. This is going to be like the Friends episode, "The one where they're up all night".
Is anyone going to Pumpkin Fest this weekend???
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I've been MIA
I have been totally MIA this past week, unless of course you know the right place to look. I've been wicked busy-- class, work, and such. I did a lot of things that I didn't want to do, and I didn't do a lot of things that I wanted to do. I had a really hard time finding people to cooperate with me for this weeks assignment. People are either too busy or don't want the entire class to see pictures of them, oh well. Whatevs.
Anyway, I did two little last minute stories, but I'm not really sure which one I want to use. The first one is photos and audio of my friend Riley playing his guitar. I really liked some of the pictures, but they were all the same. I also didn't have a lot of time to take pictures of him because he had to study for a physics test. (Side note-- He's tried to teach me a little, but I'm not a very good student!!! I guess its hard to learn new things at the old age of 20). We actually went to the PCAC late last night to play the pianos. He gave me a solo, but I screwed it up-- go figure.
I cornered my roommate Allie right when she got back from work, before "Private Practice" started at nine and got her to go to The Wildcat Den in the MUB and play some pool with me. (Did you guys know that it used to be a bar? Or so I've heard.) I got some pretty cool pictures, but the audio isn't that great. There are some cool sounds of the balls (or whatever the term is) hitting together, but other than that its a lot of muffled voices and bad music.
I suppose which ever one I use in class tomorrow will depend on what I think matters more: good photos or good audio.
I really enjoyed the presentation in last weeks class-- particularly the Twizzlers from Sandy :-) The chicken catching video was awesome. It's wicked hard to catch a chicken, to anyone thats never had to do it.
Anyway, I did two little last minute stories, but I'm not really sure which one I want to use. The first one is photos and audio of my friend Riley playing his guitar. I really liked some of the pictures, but they were all the same. I also didn't have a lot of time to take pictures of him because he had to study for a physics test. (Side note-- He's tried to teach me a little, but I'm not a very good student!!! I guess its hard to learn new things at the old age of 20). We actually went to the PCAC late last night to play the pianos. He gave me a solo, but I screwed it up-- go figure.
I cornered my roommate Allie right when she got back from work, before "Private Practice" started at nine and got her to go to The Wildcat Den in the MUB and play some pool with me. (Did you guys know that it used to be a bar? Or so I've heard.) I got some pretty cool pictures, but the audio isn't that great. There are some cool sounds of the balls (or whatever the term is) hitting together, but other than that its a lot of muffled voices and bad music.
I suppose which ever one I use in class tomorrow will depend on what I think matters more: good photos or good audio.
I really enjoyed the presentation in last weeks class-- particularly the Twizzlers from Sandy :-) The chicken catching video was awesome. It's wicked hard to catch a chicken, to anyone thats never had to do it.
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