Wednesday, April 27, 2011

PND Culture Movie Review

1. Upload your movie to your blog or embed it from YouTube.  Earlier you had the opportunity to grade your teammates on the storyboard portion of this project. Now you will be examining your own performance as a team member. 


2. Remember to copy and paste the questions into your blog as you answer them. Answer the following questions about yourself: 

A. To what degree did you work toward team goals? (Please explain your answer)  Superior, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Needs Improvement
I believe that all of my team members, including myself, would fall under superior because we were all very productive in making our movie. Each of us came up with ideas and helped to make those ideas reality. 

B. What specific tasks and duties did you perform as a member of this team? 
I came up with some of the ideas and themes of our movie, and I did many of the voice overs.  

C. To what degree did you offer your gifts, talents, and time as a member of the team? (Please explain your answer) Superior, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Needs Improvement 
Again I believe that our whole team would fall under superior because we all put plenty of time into the project, which is why we finished a little early even. 

D. To what degree did you take action as a member of the team? (Please explain your answer) Leader, Very Active, Somewhat Active, Had to Be Told What to Do 
I would say that Adam was our team leader, but JoCele and I were both very active. Adam did all of the effects for the movie, but we all provided opinions on what effects to use. 

E. What makes you most proud about your movie and why? 
I believe that our movie had a good flow and was consistent. It would get the point across to an incoming freshman, which was the main goal. 

F. If you were going to make any changes to your movie, what would they be?
I would make the movie a little longer so we could take more time explaining some of the slides or take more time with the interviews, etc. 

Monday, April 11, 2011

Movie Review Podcast

1. Upload your slideshow as a movie to your blog posting. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format. If it is still too big, re-export in a smaller format. You may also choose to upload it to YouTube and embed it on your blog.]


2. What tools and techniques did you use to create your podcast?
I uploaded pictures and sound effects into the podcast. I had to place them in different tracks and in the right spots for the podcast to sound right. 

3.  How could you use a project like this in other classes?
I could use a project like this for a report or essay in my other classes. 

4.  In the “real world,” how could podcast projects be used (In what careers/businesses, etc.)?
A podcast such as the one I made could be used in presenting information to a group of people to give a lecture. It could also be used to make a commercial. 

5.  In this project, what did you get good at doing?
I got good at making my the different tracks flow together well so that it would be hard to tell where one track ended and another began. 

6. What was the most difficult part of the assignment?
The most difficult part of the project was getting the sound quality I wanted. 

7. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976?  [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc., How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?
I used all of the information (music, sound effects, and pictures) to enhance the quality of my podcast. I transformed them to make my podcast better so it wouldn't just be my voice, which would be bad.  

8.  Would you do a project like this on your own?
I probably would not do a project like this on my own unless it was a project for school.   

9. If you were going to make any changes/improvements on your podcast what would it/they be?  ...and why?
I would redo a few of the recordings so that the transitions between tracks would be perfect because I believe that sound quality is the most important thing in a podcast.