1. I made several realizations about cyberbullying while completing this project. First, i learned that sadly and unfortunately many people dont know the consequences and effects of cyberbullying including adults. I learned that some people just know the basics of what it is but dint really know what the school can do to intervene and the legal consequences that follow. Also, it was quite surprising the rates of how people were being cyberbullied. I knew it was around and stuff and people had dealt with it but nowhere, did i know that the rates were that high.
2. To begin with our video we needed to conduct a lot of research of the topic itself and became well acquainted with the subject so we could know fairly well on the subject. What was very helpful was the worksheets we did and the notes we took in class of cyberbullying. Also, we had to conduct some research on our own but it was all good because we cited it. One other thing that we did was actually go around and asked people on cyberbullying just to see what kind of feedback we had and in what things we coincided.
3. So what we did in order to start putting out storyboards together was actually just brainstorm on a separate piece of paper all of our ideas. Then what we did we went and analyzed them and thought of how we could possibly project the message based on the ideas we had and even eliminated some that we thought were irrelevant. I thought that the storyboard did help us because it provided us with a real loose rough draft of our video but at least we had a rough picture of the direction we wanted to go and how we were going to go about to produce it. However i do want to mention that we didn't follow it very precisely because we were very flexible with it and ended up adding somethings and not adding other things as in regards to interviews and information. After we had our storyboard more or less completed we set about to start some filming and seeing the shots we had to deal with and just kind of went with the flow as opposed to sticking to a rigid schedule and outline. Once we had what we did, we put together our final draft and we inserted a lot of time into it because we went through the rough draft and added all of the comments and tips given to us during that section.
4. During the filming of the video i really took into heart what we did in the workshops. I felt like they were really helpful in accomplishing our filming for our project. I learned how to incorporate the different angles and the effects that it would create on the subjects. One in particular that i was really content with was the one we filmed of Perla sitting down. I do have to mention that i learned on what it is to film something at a two thirds angles. Not only that but i think i learned a little more on how to convey the message or the tone better by establishing a good background not just any random one.
5. We organized the editing the film in half. What we decided was first to divide the credits with Lizzy and Denise and Liz and I would work on the introduction. Then we each started working back words until we met at the middle point. Also we had people being the ones looking up information and verifying so at all times we had someone doing something and never was there one that didn't do anything or was sitting around doing nothing. Some of the problems were getting the clips to be cut off at a specif point where it wouldn't jump at the end of the clip and also having a good starting point and with which words to start their interviews. I think it was the fact that we could not find the perfect point where to cut off Francisco's ending part without having another more consistent transition, which is why we decided to keep them more or less the same because it made it harder to block out the imperfections of the clips. Also, the fact that the cameras had different frame sizes so it looked kind of awkward at times but it was not something totally noticeable. I came in after class to work on the edits and try to make them as accurate as possible. Also i did a lot in the sound editing, in fact i did most of it because i was able to master it the best from the group and that was my job. I realized the importance of having copyright friendly music and sound effects and the consequences of not doing that the proper way. I also learned that it was important to site EVERYTHING we had and give credit to the sources we used because obviously we did not know everything we stated in the video.
Getting Feedback
I liked the feedback of adding more professional clips because it opened my eyes on what the audience wanted to see in the video aside from great graphics. I liked getting feedback because it was helpful and it added improvement to my video to make it better and improve it.
Access Yourself
I think i did well in facilitating the jobs and making sure everybody stayed on task without having to be mean or anything. One thing that we could have worked better on was our communication outside of class because it was hard to get of hold of each other after school to work on the project so maybe next time we could get each others phone numbers.
Describe Your Group Progress
I think in general our group was among the best because we all managed to work together really well. Even when someone was missing we managed to be able to take over and improvise and also they were able to meet up what they missed so it wasn't just one or two people doing the project ever. I felt that our cooperation really showed in the outcome of the video and was portrayed by the quality if it. I was really happy with my group.
Reflect on the Assignment
I really liked the pre research we did before we started our video that way we knew what we were getting ourselves into. Also i liked how we had the workshops so we could learn how to use Premiere Pro and how to incorporate the techniques into our project. One thing i think would be better would be to do the workshops before we actually start the video that way we know before hand how to work things and we don't have to deal with the stress of doing the video deadlines and the workshops projects at the same time.
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