Spring Semester is quickly coming to its conclusion

This eight week Semester has been one roller coaster ride...and I don't particularly care for roller coasters; I am more of a "Tilt-A-Whirl " girl!   After one more week and I will see the results of my efforts in my grades. I will never take 4 classes in an eight week semester again!

I guess I can say I did accomplish learning Final Cut Pro...but I'd also have to say it was a very stressful process in eight weeks.  FYI; I discovered some great tutorial videos for beginners, and the links really helped me out with my  audio project and final project.  I feel you can learn just about anything Online by watching a video, a highly recommend it!  I have posted some helpful links below.

Spring Summer-2011; video production

This Spring I will learn to use a video camera and shoot an original final video project.  This Semester will be pretty fast paced, but I will try my best to keep up. I am featuring the video that explains the workings of the Sony PD 170 camera we will be using.  After I master the class I have been told I will have the know how to shoot short films, wedding videos, etc., and I am pretty geeked.  Check out my practice camera's functions.

Spring - Summer 2011; weight training

Well, I am signed up for a weight training course... and so far I am the only female registered.  Can't wait to see how this pans out with my new fitness regiment. A friend of mine shared a website called http://www.bodyrock.tv/ that seems pretty difficult. I would like to share one of the workout videos from YouTube. Seems very intense, but I may give it a try in baby steps.

"Voice over" example...

In  a comment I received, after my last blog, someone asked me , "What is a 'voice over'?"  I apologize for my delay in responding, but finals kept me pretty busy. Check this video out.  It is fun and has a great example of the 'voice over' technique from a screen play that is incorporated into a video. :-)

Psst! hibowler (who asked the question) 'voice over' is just that voice that can be heard when no one is actually speaking in a film! But check out this video anyway.  It is amusing.  ;-)

Short Photo Videos can be seen on www.flickr.com

I have been really geeked after making my public service announcement video for my writing class. So I came up with the idea to incorporate some of my photos into short videos for my final Directed Studies Photo Class Project. After re-familiarizing myself with the Word Movie Making Program I used basic editing techniques as to not overpower my photography. It took some time for it all to come together but I was very happy with the results of my attempts at being a movie maker.

Okay so the bad news is that I uploaded my videos onto http://www.flickr.com/ only to discover that the website only shows the first 1 minute and 30 seconds of the video.  This means that my approximately 4 minute videos are stopped way short of completion. You may ask, "why didn't you make your videos 1 minute and 30 seconds?" My response would be, "Because I used my favorite instrumental artist's ( Ryan Farish) music for sound and I didn't want to stop the music so quickly. I was disappointed but I think the videos still give a good sampling of my photography. Take 1 minute and 30 seconds to check out my movie making skills. :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyesonuphoto/5650980722/in/set-72157626444033037

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyesonuphoto/5656272157/in/set-72157626444033037/

Also check out Ryan Farish's videos from Youtube.com

Links for Ryan Farish;

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=inbox&action=read&tid=wBD1jz178dp%2B4g3OJTyxOQ#!/ryanfarishofficial

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fopus%2Fid398925551&h=b50d4

Website	http://www.ryanfarish.com http://www.myspace.com/ryanfarish http://www.twitter.com/ryanfarish http://www.youtube.com/ryanfarish

"His God Given Gift", is the title of my first amateur screenplay

My mock movie screen titles for "His God Given Gift".

Boy did I have fun in my Writing for Television and Radio Class. I really learned a lot from the experience this semester.  I have to admit that at first it was intimidating, but once I got started on each individual assignment I had no problem coming up with ideas.

I wrote a Public Service Announcement about organ donation, I wrote a commercial about an energy drink, and I wrote a short screenplay. Dr. Nicholas Schlegel encouraged classroom group interaction and feedback, so ideas and honest criticisms were shared.

On our last class meeting Dr. Schlegel shared that I was either the student with the most re-writes or a close second. ("Thanks Dr. Shlegel for sharing that with my classmates!" :-)  Well to be honest the ten page screenplay was the most challenging. My first two page draft was written more like a novel than a screenplay and I discovered there is a big difference between the two styles. In a screenplay you have to write the scenes in the present tense and you have to write only what can be captured by the camera. It's very important to know that inner thoughts or motives CANNOT be included in the screenplay unless a Voice Over is indicated. By my fifth re-write I think this crucial information was firmly planted in my brain.

Reflective blog AH/HON 4240_17



 

Tanya Britt, Doreen Webb,  and Ayaka Hibino 



Art History AH/HON 4240 is coming to its conclusion for the semester.  I feel that participating in its community outreach programs, and documenting my experience in this blog, has been very rewarding.

I was able to meet my deadlines and submit my grant proposal, 'Creating and Expanding Art Digitally', for Mariners Inn.  I made the necessary changes and did the additional research that was requested and I feel it has a good chance of being funded. I sure hope Mariners Inn can benefit from my efforts.

I would like to thank Dr. Mame Jackson for giving me the opportunity to make a real difference in this Community Arts Program. I would also like to thank Doreen Webb for allowing me the opportunity to contribute in The Obama Project at Mariners Inn. Last, but not lease I would like to thank my fellow teammates, Ayaka Hibino and Nathanial Smalls, as well all the men at Mariners Inn who participated, for making our team efforts memorable.


Tanya Britt holding mosaic plaque given to her by Maurice 'Mo" Hunter.

  

The completed President Obama domino Portrait.