Aindrea's Movie Reflection

Although I wasn't here to witness how they ended up finishing the video, I still got to contribute and help the group. It was a very stressful process. I think working in a group made things harder, not easier. We had a lack of communication and that confused us. We didn't know who was doing which parts and we were just kind of doing our own things. Nobody talked. We were all shy when it came to asking each other for pictures and that caused some of us to have photos missing.

Near the end, I noticed everybody working harder and we started to ask pictures from each other. We still had a lack of communication, but some people took leadership and asked who had what and planned what we needed. In the end, Alieha and Dave edited most of the pictures and videos we had and brought it together.

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WE Are Sargent Park...or something other

All we really did was work on the end credits. But we had (some) commitment. It was fun. Especially working on the transitions and making our own soundtrack. We argued, but we managed to pull through and compose everything at the last second for everything to work out. In the end, it looks like this was a good start to a future of success for Emperor Blackbird Enterprises©.

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Patrick's We Are Sargent Park Reflection

      In this project my group consisting of Jayson and Andren we had to create a video that represented our whole school. We all started to brainstorm our ideas in the beginning on a huge paper. We all had to take pictures of the fun things that Sargent Park consisted of. We had to work with other groups as well and combine all of our parts of the school in the end. Our group focused more on the junior high students. Taking pictures were the easiest part of this assignment because of all the coolest things that we have in this school. Combining all our ideas at the end and making the whole video was the hardest part in this assignment. We had to work with 3 other groups consisting of at least 4 people in that group. With all of our ideas jumping up and down the place we still managed to produce a project that represented  our school in a very good way. We still managed to finish the movie in time and also a very good turn out at the end!

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Jayson's WE are Sargent Park Reflection

           

Photo made by: Jayson

           We made the video by first getting our ideas and thoughts on how to make it on paper. We needed to get pictures and videos relating to Sargent Park. My group, consisting of me Patrick and Andren, took most of the Jr.High pictures while everyone else did their own thing. After we got all of our pictures, Mr. Harbeck gave each group a Mac to start editing our video. He handed out 1 Mac to the four groups and each group got a segment of the video to do. My group was working with the Jr. High segment because we had a lot of pictures of grade sevens, eights, and nines. Since we had very little time to work on the video, we decided to edit after school from 3:30 to 4:30. For me, the hard part of this assignment was getting each segment to match others so it appears somewhat consistent. After all the groups were done editing, we put it altogether. I think the video came out better than I expected it to be. But I don't know if we won against the other group or not. Overall, making the video was a very educational experience for all of us and I learned a lot about iMovie and the process of making a video.

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Alieha's Sargent Park Video Reflection

I always thought that making a video would be fun. Although it was fun, it was also very stressful. Almost to the point where I was pulling my hair out. Collecting the footage was the easiest part, but putting it all together was really hard. Mostly because I never really used iMovie before and I've never edited a video before. I think communicating was especially hard with a big group because we all had different ideas and we didn't exactly have a clear plan on what we were doing. But we still managed to put together a sort of nice video with a short amount of time and with people missing too.

For the most part, I really didn't know what to do. All I was thinking was that it won't be perfect, but imagine what it would feel like if we could actually pull it off. But I did learn how to use iMovie eventually, and I learned new techniques on picture animation, which I never thought I would learn from this project. The main thing I did was edit the video and add effective transitions which was hard to do without knowing what the plan was. Usually, I can't do anything unless there was a plan because a video should have a story. So we actually finished editing the whole video in one day (in the morning, at lunch, and during class). Overall, I really enjoyed making a video, but next time we should have a clear idea. I do want to try this again though, now that I have some experience.

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Sarah's 'WE are Sargent Park' Video Reflection.

WE are Sargent Park Reflection

           While making this movie for Sargent Park School, I realized a couple things. One was that communication was vital in completing this task as a group. In my case, I am used to working on projects alone or with a smaller group of people, however trying to coordinate an entire class to work on the same page was really out of my comfort zone. At first I felt I couldn't properly express my ideas for others to hear, being that my voice is not the most audible. That's when I realized that this project was much different, instead of me just sitting in front of a screen and working on my own decree, I would have to communicate, and would also have to do something a bit scary for me, which is relying on others. I stressed out about this project to an extreme extent, and had at least one sleepless night of just worrying about what I could do. The problem was I could not just pick up a Mac alone and finish the project myself; I would have to discuss my plans with others, and again do the very dreaded talking thing. At first I felt I couldn't do that at all, and that sent me to a low point, adding to much more stress for me.

I now had to seriously think about what I should do in order to have an active role in the making of this movie. I finally came to face the fact that in order to do this I had to try to inch myself away from my comfort zone, and so I did, or at least tried to. Ultimately I was able to contribute to some good ideas for the group. It felt really good to help out, and I was flattered to hear that my other rather artistically gifted classmates liked my ideas as well.

Another thing that I had realized was that you can learn a lot from the people around you. I am so fortunate to be in a class that is so diverse, inspired, and not to mention, artistic. Everyone has their gifts and talents, and by working a bit closer with them than normally, I could sample a bit of their talents and pick up a few worthy techniques. For instance, I learned how to make an ordinary picture on a movie more radiant by placing aesthetically appealing text, and changing its transition. Additionally I learned how to take effective shots for a very specific theme.

While making the movie:  Working on a deadline for such a big project may seem far fetched and almost impossible, and I also worried if we could ever get it done on time. After making a plan however, and having the work divided off we could actually start getting somewhere. Our group worked on the transitions, and the beginning and end. We would search the computer for interesting videos and pictures and search our minds for any glint of a creative thought and then edit, enhance and crop away at the rusty edges. We worked and talked and listened, and in the end the results were satisfactory.

In summary, despite being removed from my comfort zone, I feel that I was able to gain certain benefits from this experience that will help develop my skills as a student.
~Sarah
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(Picture by Blek/ Name: Caged Ideas)

Categories: charbeck, Harbeck, reflection, Sarah, Sargent park video, SPS video reflection, We are Sargent

Andrea's Sargent Park Video Reflection

    

Sargent Park Video Reflection

   We were working on a video about showing what Sargent Park is and we we're suppose to use the i movie to make the video. I think the hardest part is like you have to take the pictures and videos of the elementary kids. It's hard because we have to make sure that the length of the videos fits the appropriate time. Also when you download the pictures and videos that you took, and put it in a folder. You have to like sort them so it's easy to find.
  Sometimes there's like kids that doesn't have permission to be in a video or and photographs, so it's sometimes hard to find an angle where those kids can't be seen. Maybe next time, if there's another group work, I should be in a small group because it's hard to work with a big group. But I had lots of fun working with them. Also learn a little bit about working on i movie. The pain of working this assignment is that we were crowded in one place.

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WE are Sargent Park Reflection

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Now that we have completed a movie project on time I would like you to reflect on the process.

In a 12 sentence (ish) reflection please talk about the process of making a movie, new techniques you learned and the pains and smiles of working in a group. 

Please find an image to show your emotion of what it was like to work in your groups.

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Mika's Sargent Park Video Reflection

I think the most hardest thing we did was to collect pictures or films for the video. Most of us are shy to ask to take pictures or film so we don't have most of the stuff we need like cooking, sewing, and more elementary. The second hardest thing we had to do is finding out how to do transitions for each of our video and how we put everything together. Sophia mostly did the editing and rendering of our video while my job is to find pictures for our video. I didn't really get to do a lot of stuff, I only did collage of elementary, asking if people needs help, finding music and trying to make a pizza video for the credits which ended really badly since I need to convert it to MP4 so I couldn't finish it or do it. I was really stressful on making this video since everyone doesn't have anything to do or doesn't know what to do so they ended up watching videos and such. Overall everyone did a great job, our communication was really good and work in our extra time. Next time I think all of us should gather together and plan how we should do this since this video was pretty much random and put random stuff together. I really hoped that we make a story line if we're making a whole class video next time. I was hoping to do a girl who graduated from Sargent and is currently in university. She was looking for something and knocked out this box that was full of memories in Sargent. She then tries to gather up the mess but then when she picks up a picture, she remembers those moments then that'll be our transition every time she picks up a picture. I hope we get to do this with the whole class again.

Categories: 905, iMovie, MikaToogood, We are Sargent