Final Reflection

Damien Fraser

e-Comm Final Reflection

My e-Communications (e-Comm) experience is one full of memories made, fun projects completed, learning how to work with all sorts of technology/software and a chance to make good impressions on the amazing e-Comm teachers! So In my final reflection overall for this year here in e-Comm has been throughout the 2015-2016 school year.

What,How,Why did I learn what I learned?

When asked “what did you learn?” a simple answer would be for me to say “A lot!” although that answer would make me sound like I learned so much that I either don’t care to talk about it or that I forgot about it, which neither of those things are true.  One of the things I learned is just how important communication and planning things out is. It can be hard when things aren’t fully planned out and one person gets stuck do a major/ big piece to a project, which I would know from my e9 final project. I learned it by it happening to me and me having to do a big part of a project on my own. It is important because the person who gets stuck in the situation like I was may have something else to do, example studying for finals.

What are my greatest strengths and weaknesses?

My Greatest strengths and weaknesses can be put into a gigantic list! So a few of my strengths and weaknesses are. The first one is that I am good at taking charge and getting something done, but there is a weakness in there because the time I had to do this to get part of a project done, I spent lots of time after school, which I could’ve used for studying and other things. Another Strength is my attitude towards finding the good in things and even if there is something I don’t necessarily like to do but has to happen I will give it a go. A weakness may be, depending on if and when it happens that I have a tendency to forget some things that may not seem important but can be. But a strength on the other hand is when I take notes I tend to copy everything down and even make side notes over what the teacher also mentions.

Is there anything I would change?

Would I change anything? Well yes, one thing I would change is during the e9 final project we had a couple of team members not fully doing much throughout the time in video, so I would go back and have one of them ask for instructions to start the website and start the website. I also would change how we planned things out and kept track of who does what, etc. and that is because I felt we may have slightly been disorganized, but it wasn’t that big of a deal because some of the more successful people/ well-known people may have been disorganized (example: scientists in their research may have been very disorganized or some of my teachers while disorganized are pretty successful with their jobs).

Conclusion

So in conclusion to all this, Communication is very important I have learned and teamwork may not always work without it. Also be at least somewhat organized and make sure everyone in a group project has something to do. Overall though e9 has been a great experience and in the end, would I do it again? No, because I am ready to finish the year out and Keep Moving Forward with my school career.

Name Animation and My Thoughts On e9

   My thoughts on e9 are that (a.) I have learned a lot more than I thought, especially out of e9 when I have the opportunity to help with things like the assembly set up for the school, or (b.) helping out filming and running the tricaster for the football games. I really enjoyed getting behind the camera and seeing just what one can do behind a camera, even if it is just on an Ipad mini. Then coming along to Graphic Design and Animation which both have me leaning towards each other when it comes to the question "which do you want to do next year?". The other part I have learned is that I am not very strong in the web design. 

   If I had to choose two e-Communications fields to go into as I progress through my years of high school, I would have to choose (a.) Video,thats for sure! and (b.) would have to be either Graphic Design or the Animation field. 

Overall e-Comm has been great!

"They loved your GPA, then they saw your tweets" reflection

          The article "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" throws out a flag on the play. What I am trying to say here is that I feel that everyone not yet in or through High School or through College can still use social media normally, yet just watch your posts. Colleges may find your posts as a sign that they shouldn't accept you in for reasons like what it may have said could put a bad rep. on them or what was shown could look bad if you are associated with the name of the college.

          The things that sort of confused we were why they even bother to look and why is it a "practice" to look into what the future students are saying. For both of those my explanation is that I found it confusing only because some people can be really smart, quiet and an overall good student at school, yet out of school they could go off and be the instigator of everything, or just simply be an overall troublemaker and/or procrastinator.


          After having read this article I can and will say I do not have plans to go post things that make my chances of not going to a college or university, yet I still have plans to be myself enjoy the right to have freedom of speech on certain things. Especially since I won't be like the MU students I heard about in the news and try and attract any negative attention or anything like that to any sort of school, group, organization, etc.

chase dfraser

      The Scope of the project was that we were to make a chase scene that was within 1 minute. The  process going from Pre-production all the way to Uploading the video is a long but not so complicated process. It started with me and my partner storyboarding and coming up with ideas on how to make the video neat, like the rolling shot with a chair around 0:08 in my video. Then actually putting the thoughts and storyboarding into to action and filming, which took some help from others and more time than one would think! Then going back to upload and edit the video, which takes a lot of focus and time. During Editing you I learned that you can cut the shots down to follow a rule "enter late,leave early" which helps shorten, and make the video flow. After editing and getting the shots set where they flowed and followed the story next thing was to pick out music that would go good with the video, and if you search "chase sequence music" its not that easy to find a song as I learned.  Along the way I found Collaboration and Teamwork are very important when doing projects such as this. In the end once its all edited and music set in, it was saved to the computer and then off to youtube. When uploading the video to youtube you select the film and let youtube do the rest.

     What I learned along the way is its not that hard to do something as simple as this which the video only lasted 40 seconds, but I now know more about editing and making clips flow, and having them follow the "enter late, leave early"rule. What would I do differently? Well if I could I would like to have more time to get all the shots in one day, have some dialogue maybe, find something more interesting to have stolen, and have better wardrobe than just normal clothes for the effect of how me and my partner storyboarded this. What I would do the same is everything, I mean besides the music, I'd definitely change that if I could've thought of/ or found a better song.

      The Experiences I will draw from to enhance this project are things like the rolling shot in the chair, I had a moment of failure when we tried to have someone pull me the first take and I nearly fell out of the chair! So be ready for that and not have to do two takes, definitely get some close-ups like on the facial expression(s) as someone is running, or of their feet. My General thoughts on this are that it is definitely a fun project, and I'd do it again if I could make a longer video, also those students coming into E-comm in the future are gonna love this project!

     Conclusions on this, like I said I would do it again, and I would definitely make a longer video if I had the time. That is because how fun the project was. Clearly though for the movies they have more time, makeup and wardrobe, lighting and all that professional stuff; but for a beginner to video production type stuff it isn't that necessary because your beginning works are going to help show improvement with your future videos. There are going to be moments of failing and moments of succeeding but thats all of the learning process. In conclusion though I enjoyed the project and can say it was my favorite filming project I have done yet!

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The Six Shot System

                                                                      The Six Shot System 
                                                                                blog #1, by:Damien 

The Six Shot System is a very helpful way to get the perspective of someone from different view points, while still focusing on the person, and can be very helpful in tutorials like for computer stuff. 


                                    1.Close-up of the Hands

This shot shows only the hands and where the hands are at, so if the camera is trying to focus on the hands while they are typing, this is what view you would use.

2. Close-up of the Face

This camera view shows the person's face, you could use this to show emotion or if the person is speaking, like an example of a good use for this view would be if it was an instructional video.

3. Over the Shoulder 

The over the shoulder view goes back to showing the hands but also showing what the person is seeing in front of them. 











4. Medium Shot

The Medium Shot establishes the pov (point of view) of the person and where they are without giving too much detail around them.

5. Wide Shot 

The Wide Shot gives more of the area surroundings compared to the Medium shot but at the same time still not giving away the whole room, but you get an idea of where they are.

6. Extra Wide Shot

The Extra Wide Shot is more of an establishment of the room the person is in, or a medium shot but with a lot more detail around the person.