The Bloody Friday the 13th

Scope of the project

Last Friday Olathe Northwest hosted it's semi-annual blood drive and I got a first look of the school's blood drive by getting footage of what goes on inside and take that footage and make a project out of it. The main idea of this project was to cover the blood drive and to see how it all works and to see how many take part in their school spirit.

Process

My process was first I had to plan out what my angle was going to be (Ex: Teacher/student that was giving blood, STUCO member or a phlebotomist) and then I would come up with questions to ask the person I'm planning on using for story. When I got inside to where the blood drive was held, right from the start is very difficult because of so many people into one room with a lot of tables and machines so it was very hard to film great shots as well as keep the camera steady because we didn't have tripods to use and I only had 10 minutes to get what I wanted including interviews. When I was all done filming what I got, which wasn't very much at all, I started writing my script and doing voice overs, and then after I finished writing, it was time to put it all together to edit. For editing this time, the project had to be either EXACTLY 45 seconds, 1 minute or 90 seconds long. But it was very hard because not many people had enough shots so some of us combined footage to make it for us to have more footage to choose from.

What did I learn?

What I learned along the way was it was very hard to do a story about something that is live and you only have one shot, so if you don't have a plan, you're not going to get amazing shots. Also I learned how to sequence the shots that I kept better, and I made a few minor tweaks in Final Cut Pro and
it looked a whole lot more intriguing to viewer's standpoint.

What I would do differently/same

What I would do differently next time is plan more ahead if I did something like this again even though it was my first time doing it. So I would make sure I have back-up plans as well because you cannot expect your plan to be perfect, so you have to be ready for anything. What I would do the same is keep writing my scripts the way they are because they seem to be flowing very smoothly with all of my videos and they make you wonder what's coming next.

Conclusions

This experience was a good one because it's like a news story, you only have one shot to get it right and this will help with other news stories in the future. Overall this was a fun video to do and I hope I keep learning as much as I can to master my skills.

ONW NOW Story

ONW NOW Story

Scope

This is a story about Roan Stanley, a sophomore at ONW who moved from Memphis, TN who hopes to fit in very well in a new school. The general idea of this story was to show how students like Roan can have their ups and downs while moving but can still have fun and get involved.

Process

How I started was I first interviewed Roan and his mom about what got them thinking about moving and then I went and filmed Roan of what he does everyday.  Then I wrote a script of how the voice overs would play out in the video. Finally I put it all together in Final Cut Pro and put the video with the voice overs into one video.

Things I learned was you definitely need more B-Roll then you think you need cause you can never have to much B-Roll. Also I learned how to focus the camera better and make sure it doesn't go out of focus which also can sometimes be the camera's fault.

What I would do differently/same

What I would do differently next time is get the interviewer to express more in their answers and like I said earlier DEFINITELY MORE B-ROLL! What I would do the same is keep writing the scripts the way I do because they seem to flow very well in all of my videos. 

Experiences/Conclusions

This was a good experience especially because of the time spent and how long it takes to make it.  In conclusion, this video was a fun won to make and hopefully I make more

Professional Article Review on Vultures or Reporters?

Last Thursday, there was a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR and a gunman opened fired leaving 9 people dead and 7 others wounded before he shot and killed himself. One student at the college began live tweeting that there was somebody shooting on campus. Right away reporters and TV producers from different news casts started to request interviews from the girl and she described the requests as "Absolute Human Vultures".

The author of this article is arguing that the reporters going out of their way just to get information about a story. Jason Silverstein, a breaking news reporter for the New York Daily says that "It's our job. And it's a job that needs to be done regardless of some tweets calling you a scumbag." What Silverstein is saying is that reporters have to get information somehow to do their job, even if it gets in people's business a lot of the time. This article has many strengths including how they used many sources opinions to get both sides of what it takes to get information and if they are getting in the way. Weaknesses would be transitions and words that start each paragraph like in the beginning the article said "So it was Thursday". They should just leave the word so out. Overall it was a good story to read about.

There could be a whole lot of ways to reword a lot of the article but the author did support the main argument and didn't get sidetracked a whole lot. The evidence isn't totally convincing but it made you think both ways and not just one side.  The writer did a very good job of getting a point across without expressing their opinion, but what I didn't understand was when someone tweeted "sickening" I don't know who they are talking about at that point.

In conclusion, the article was a sad story but it was very informational in the long run.

Article Source: Vultures' or reporters?

Audiostory

This is a story about Thomas Barnes, a student at Olathe Northwest, who's taking his music to a whole to level.

Ways of Colors

4 different way of making color words

HTMl 1: 

In this project we used body styles to create font-families and color words to create a website that had a color for text and a background color to make the text and the background color to blend well.  When you code in Dreamweaver you have to have no space in your color words or then they will not function.

For example:

And here's what it looks like when it's finished...

Hexadecimal Color Sampler: 

In this project we used a ton of div styles with different background colors to make the colors of the rainbow and the different shades of black and gray. With all the different div styles you had to change the color codes to make the certain colors by using the RRGGBB scale. 

For example:

Here's the finished product....

RGB and RGBA: 

In this project we used RGBA color samplers to adjust colors to having a lot of transparency to no transparency. By using RGBA's we used the code in Dreamweaver to tell the levels of transparency. .2 being most and .8 being opague.

Here's the final....

In conclusion there are multiple ways of making colors and they can depend on how you use them to make your creations. From going to the colors of the rainbow to the families to the RGBA's they all have a lot in common.

TBL and Color Sampler Websites

These our samples of the first 2 web pages that I made. What I learned in both is that you have to adjust your code to whatever works for you and not the example, because sometimes the computer doesn't register the same as others.

In the Tim Berners-Lee webpage I learned how to insert an image and how to adjust the height and width. In the color sampler webpage was a little harder and you had to be more creative because there are many different shades of color and so everyone will not have the same color code as you. In this one, we used a lot of div's and we learned about the &nbsp's which are a little confusing but those you have to have or the color won't show up. Overall this was fun to make and it's very fun trying to figure out how much red, blue, or green is needed to make a certain color appear.

Procedures Video

This a video on how to get your lunch at ONW.  This is a 30 second video of a person sitting in class and their teacher tells them it's time to go to lunch.  This is a huge basic procedure because lunch time is really the only free time you have but you have to know what you'll need to do in order to make your time more smooth.