REFLECTION: December 4th, 2009

"today" was my first film class as a 15 year old :)
*nothing to write about because i was distracted*

"today" we got our grades back for the last project, i think i did fine except for criterion C, which i got a 4 for because apparently my blog was too personal and not reflective enough when it comes to the IB learner profile. I agree and I think I need to improve on that and I should stop putting personal stuff onto this blog until the semester ends. however, i think my hard work on that project did kind of pay off in the end because i got quite good grades for all the other criteria. enough said, onto the things we did...

so Lea and Nadia weren't here (dude, if you read Nadia's reflections, she makes it seem like it's our fault for us not having all our group members. Vikki and I never even missed a lesson...not meaning to bash her or anything...) so we were on our own and we decided to use the time to start learning garage band and researching some sounds that we wanted to do. we went on YouTube to find horse sounds and baby sounds and ended up getting really distracted by funny videos that showed up in the search results and kind of got off track. i filmed the process of the researching because it might be useful for the documentary, however we were so distracted that in the end we didn't get much useful stuff on tape except for the parts where we talked about what we were doing and the part where we discussed the plan with the camera. i think i get really distracted when i hold a camera because i kind of go crazy with the zooming and that isn't good because every single film teacher i've had told me NOT TO ZOOM. but i find zooming rather artistic and nice if you do if right, except i can't do it right so it looks really strange.
in the end we decided to try using GarageBand and see what we could do using that because we need to make our own music for the comic but we were distracted for so long that it was already time to leave when we took out the things, so we added "garage band" to the plan and we should be using it next time.
we got lots of cool stuff (that could be moderately useful) for the documentary except it's all filmed in a kind of strange way so it is unlikely to be used. next time, i think i should try to plan what i want to film before turning on the camera and i should STOP ZOOMING SO MUCH when it is an assignment i need to hand it. i thought the vlog we did about our plan is quite good though, because we actually said useful stuff, and it could be put into our documentary.

we didn't really do much today so i think we need to be more productive and work hard even if our group members aren't here because we don't have much class time before Christmas break!!
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YAY :D