critical reflection-last work habits grade

During this class I was able to learn how to better use a computer for better journalism purposes.  We were taught how to use the programs Audacity, Windows Movie Maker, and Microsoft Power point; these three programs helped us make better presentations in the classroom with the given assignments. For our normal assignments we were put in groups ranging from five people to one person, and in every assignment we all did what we were assigned to do. During the semester we were also taught how to use a recording microphone, and a video camera. During this class there were some times where I helped other people; some instances would be when another classmate needed help on how to work Windows Movie Maker or Audacity. Another instance is where I have stayed after school to finish a project with or without my groups help.

I feel that my best project would be assignment ten, the Yola website! That assignment was so much fun to do and it turned out really good. My group was awesome with working together and our video had a lot of humor in it. One assignment I did not well on was the Christmas music video project. I believe what went wrong was my group didn’t get along well and another big contribute was every time we would work on the assignment/project was our computer would crash every time we tried to work on the assignment. If I could have redone the project I would have changed the song and group, I believe that it really would have been different if the computer wouldn’t have frozen or shut down when we worked on it.

Looking back on the semester my work on the computer has gotten much better and I would say I know more about computers to where I’m in a business or class that involves me using some of the programs like audacity or movie maker I could successfully use them.  Also my work in general has gotten a lot neater, like using WordPress to organize my assignments neatly. Some things I learned from this class were not only how to use a computer better but I learned a lot about strokes during the stroke assignment.  I also learned how to successfully make a website for a small or just starting business. I think I learned what I could from this class; I wish we could have done some more fun projects because some just felt like busy work or work that didn’t really teach us anything. If we could have gotten more benefits from some assignments then I would have had a better experience in the class itself.

 

 

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assignment seventeen; mkl

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          Key words;

1. Freedom: Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another
2. Justice: The maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.
3. Negro/Black: referring to the African American Race
4. Civil Rights:  the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially :the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress
5. Dream: A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep
6. “But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.”

                  Quotes;      

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of god’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.”

MLK did a good job explaining how there is not only friction between whites and blacks butbetween all different forms and races.

“But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free.”

MLK brings up a good point even 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. African Americans are still not as free as a white man.

                      Words with pictures;

A bank giving back a check with “insufficient funds”, also how all over “America the Beautiful” there will be freedom, all races joining together, Drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred, “Oasis of freedom”, Marching ahead never turning back

Assignment sixteen

 

1. Make a list of all the steps that have to be accomplished in the pre-production stage of a video.  Summarize each step in 1-2 sentences;

• One: identifying the goals and objectives of your video.
• Two: Your target audience needs to be identified and scrutinized.
• Three: Budget
• Four: preparing an outline of the points you want to make.
• Five: script.
• Six: Hire your Actors and crew.
• Seven: Lighting.
• Eight: Audio.
• camera position.

2. Production Stage-

• Safety- practice extreme safety measures in producing a video. Make sure that wires are taped down, that lights have sandbags on them to prevent them from tipping over and other potential accidents are avoided.
• Set-up and breakdown- Make sure to secure your equipment. The set up period is when you are testing equipment, setting up your lights, doing audio checks, setting up props and signage, taping down cables so that no one trips over them, and more.
• Lighting- Bring more lights than you think you’ll need and have plenty time for this task.
• Director- There should only be one director. It’s time to execute the plan, not rethink it.
• Audio- Try to get redundant audio in case a microphone cuts out or something else. Most importantly, test the audio level of the presenter before the program begins and have someone monitor the audio with headphones and some sort of meter on the camera or a mixer.
• Makeup- Hire a makeup artist is it’s in your budget. Responsible for wardrobe and the little details.
• Camera person- They need to know about white balancing, making sure the video is focused, the type of camera moves the director wants, and troubleshoot possible problems.

3. Post Production Stage-

• Get the footage you shot into the computer by digitizing the footage into a useable file format.
• Once you digitize the footage, it gets converted into a QuickTime file. Then drag the file into the timeline so that you can edit your piece.
• Either digitize the footage yourself or have a company digitize it for you. Then you can transfer the footage from your external hard drive to your internal drive.
• Max out of RAM.
• Use only one internal drive for your applications, system, etc. and another internal drive for your video projects.
• For optimal performance, and to prevent crashes, make sure you have at least 10% free space on the drive at all times. Internal hard drives are cheap right now, so get the largest one you can.
• Don’t go crazy with the special effects, use of wild transitions, or feel that the text you use has to fly in every time.
• Use cuts in between shots, but it needs to move along.
• Make sure it’s title safe.
• You must make sure that the sound level is consistent throughout the video.

Dumb Assignment that was pointless for my life purpose….

• Emergence of the penny press, innovations in printing, rise of modern newsroom.
• Give cheap mass product newspapers to the public.
• Dailey papers 
  1. 1800-4
  2. 1900-64
  3. Show the penny press blooming
• Enterprising reporting, sensational stories, and innovative new ideas
• Sensational stories on sin and sex, Yellow Kid the first color comic
•  Tighter writing
  1. Better formating
  2. Improved design
  3. Corporate consolidation
• Transcended yellow journalism
• Newsman in WW2, 24-hour stream of news coverage
• Current up to date news
• More people will watch TV news but Newspapers will stay around

assignment twelve

Vocab;

1. ENG reporting- Electronic news gathering. Refers to the process of reporting events and activities that occur outside of the television studio.
2. Sound Bite- A videotaped segment in which the audio and video portions of the tape must remain in sync. Sound bites are usually three to five seconds.
3. Stand-up- Refers to an on-camera shot of a reporter as he or she presents information about the topic.
4. Rule of threes- During postproduction, the edited clips are grouped by audio and video into segments of three sentences pre style or format.
5. Talking head-

Short answer questions; 

1. Identify three ways you could research an upcoming report on the topic of “Teen Curfews.” 
   1. Answer; Google
   2. Interviews
   3. TV

1. Identify three tasks a reporter should complete during an ENG report.

Answer;

Always check the camcorder and recording equipment before leaving the studio for taping. Turn on the camcorder and record a few seconds of footage. A simple playback will enable you to see whether it is working properly.

Microphones are essential for ENG reporting. You might need several types: handled for interviews, lavaliere for reporting script and even a shotgun for obtaining sound bites of distant activities.

Connect the microphones and mic. cords as well. A simple sound check with the camcorder or audio system will ensure they are working.

1. Identify three tasks a videographer should complete during an ENG report.

Answer;

Immediately set up and check the camcorder. Load the videotape, set up the tripod, and check the microphones.

Start videotaping some of the activities that are going on the time: students and parents arriving for the dinner and dance, banners and hall decorations, food preparations, social interactions among guests

Spend some time with the reporter discussing camera shots and subject matter for the report. Verify shots and locations, as well as times, for the reporter stand-ups and interviews.

1. Describe how an editor would utilize the rule of threes when producing an ENG report.

Answer;

Lead-In

Comment 1

Comment 2

Comment 3

Reporter Narration

Closing

1. Describe three elements of recording and editing guests’ comments on a camera to make them effective.

Answer;

Ask questions off camera first

Write down everyone’s name and title

Ask only two or three questions

1. How are sound bites used effectively in creating ENG Report

Viewers to experience the event as if they were there

1. Write a sample reporter “lead-in” for the following topics. Remember to limit your lead-ins to two or three sentences

Answer; Civic Club Car Wash (fundraiser)

    Here at the Civic Club I am live at the civic Club car wash fundraiser

SAT Preparation Class (Saturday Mornings!) Good Morning Dansville I’m here with Dansville High Schooler’s. They are all here for the SAT Preparation Class.

Yearbook Delivery Day

I hope you all got your Yearbook order form in because I’m here where the Yearbooks are being delivered maybe you can get an extra

Teacher of the Year

Congratulations to this years, Teacher of the Year, I’m sure we all agree this teacher deserved it.

assignment eleven; surveymonkey stroke awarness

take my survey on Stroke Awarness.

assignment eleven; stroke

2. What is stroke?

Answer; A stroke is what happens in the brain when the blood suddenly stops or when a vessel bursts, pouring blood into the surrounding the spaces around the brain cells.

3.What are some treatments?

Answer; There are some treatments for stroke victims, the three main stages are prevention, therapy immediately after the stroke, and post-stroke rehabilitation. Antithrombotic is the most common medicine for treating a stroke. Drug or Medication therapy is the most common treatment options.

4.What is the Prognosis?

Answer; Even though a stroke can cause major damage to the brain it also causes damage to the whole body. If the stroke affects the body then the result is paralysis to one whole side of the body. Patients experience depression, numbness or strange feelings; recurrent stroke is frequent; about 25 percent of people who recover from their first stroke will have another stroke within 5 years.

 

5.What research is being done?

anwser; they are studying what strokes have to do with genetics, stoke factors, and damage from strokes.

6.What are the risk factors with a stroke?

anwser; The risk factors of a stoke are; high blood presure, and cholesterol.

7.What are the five warning signs of a stroke?

Answer;

a)      Sudden weakness in the face arms or legs, or especially on one side of the body.

b)      You are suddenly experiencing sharp pains in your head.

c)      Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding someone.

d)     You have trouble seeing out of one or both eyes.

e)      Sudden trouble of walking, dizziness, and loss of balance or coordination. 

8.What are the effects of a stroke; how stroke affects mobility, define S.T.A.R.S. and some of the suggestions to prevent recurrent strokes.

Answer; The effects of a stroke depend on how bad the person experienced it, where the person had the stroke in his/her brain and how much brain damage is left after the stroke. The mobility after a stroke can cause the person’s body (half) to be numb and paralysis takes effect.

9.What is S.T.A.R.S?

Answer; Steps Against Recurrent Strokes.

10.What is F.A.S.T

Answer; Facial weakness, arm weakness, speech, time.

11.What are the types of strokes?

Answer; a) Ischemic Stroke b) Embolic Stroke c) Thrombotic Stroke

12.What are the myths of strokes?

Answer; Three myths are;  Stroke is unpreventable, Stroke cannot be treated, & Stroke can happen to anyone.

assignment eleven; national news

Occupy Oakland camp cleared by police, roughly 20 arrests made in pre-dawn raid 

Monday Morning the New York city police battled against protesters at the Occupy Oakland camp. Officials arrested roughly twenty people and cleared the area of the tents that have been in place for almost a month.  Protesters waited for the pre-dawn raid and got ready for a confrontation. Some had protective masks while others passed out vinegar soaked cloths to have protection from tear gas. Hundreds of protesters gathered on Fourteenth and Broadway in Oakland in preparation for the raid. At four in the morning helicopters began flying over and many protesters moved their tents and belongings to smaller areas like parks and to the street. Police in riot gear surrounded the camp by five in the morning and began to walk through the nearly deserted site vacated by the protesters. By six in the morning they had moved in, arresting a group of “interfaith protesters” gathered near the plaza and clearing the remaining tents. By seven in the morning  police had declared the area a “crime scene” and moved out. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, toured the plaza with a police escort shortly after the riot, in another loss to Quan, her legal adviser Dan Siegel left the office and resigned due to the “tragically unnecessary” raid. Seigel wrote on her twitter page “Resigned at two in the morning. Support Occupy Oakland, not the one  percent and its government facilitators.”  The raid went peaceful, but still the public transportation system shut down its Twelfth Street station due to the activity. Also, officials advised residents to delay coming to work until after ten in the morning because of the heavy activity happening. Quan and police have been pushing the Occupy Oakland campers to leave in the wake of the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Kayode Ola Foster, who died near the plaza on Thursday.

article two; music

Music

I chose music, so I am here to talk to you, yes, you lucky son of a gun about music. Now you’re probably thinking “well this person is only going to write about music she likes, and what’s the point in even reading this fantastic article?” Well let me tell you my friend, you are wrong, and if you’ve never been wrong before then this is what it feels like. Embrace it. The music I’m going to write about is every genre your little heart could ever desire. Country and pop. Those are what I will be writing about, may I add that I will indeed write about Dubstep, for three sole reasons? Reason one; I love it, reason two; it’s new and reason three; it’s awesome. So all you people who are like what’s this Dubstep she speaks of? Its hardcore techno. Basically, if your still confused on what it is you will have to Google it YouTube it or something, ready go. Did you find it? If you did your mind is blown. The first genre I’m going to touch on is Country, country is a really big type of music and is listened to in fact 3 out of 5 adults age 18-54 qualify as country music fans. So whether you’re pro country or against it or maybe you’re just looking for some new songs to listen to, here is the top five songs in the country music world; 
1. God Gave Me You – Blake Shelton  2. Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band 3. Sparks Fly – Taylor Swift 4. Country Must Be Country Wide – Brantley Gilbert 5. Baggage Claim – Miranda Lambert

Now if you know those songs or have just been opened up to those songs through this awesome article then you’re a pretty cool person either way. The next genre is pop, people love it, they get buck wild with it and dance like there’s no tomorrow when you hear that one favorite song, the top five in this category are; 

1. We Found Love – Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris 2. Someone Like You – Adele 3. Sexy And I Know It – LMFAO 4. Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera 5. Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People

               Last but NOT least come the lovely Dubstep, the most awesome new big thing in music is this, its great, awesome, everything a music lover could possibly want , you ready? Yes you are! Here is the top five Dubstep songs of 2011;

1.  Zomboy – Organ Donor 2. Cutline – Alive 3. Modestep Sunlight Official Video 4. Excision & Downlink (Skism Remix) – Heavy Artillery 5. Ed Sheeran – You Need Me, I Don’t Need You (Gemini Remix)

Assignment ten; yolaaaa!

heres our website(: