So in a class presentation today, we were each an animal in the forest. Our job was to make a web by relating one animal to another to save the caribou's homeland. If we could lift up this lil caribou, her homeland would be saved. Here's how we did.
So the day I showed my teaser video to the class, is the same day our prof wanted us to bring our cameras to class so that we could film and edit a short video. We all needed to have a video for our Wiki pages that we were making so this was our class to learn and experiment. So we had about 45 mins or so to come up with something. My group was Keith, Nathan, and Jean and after watching some hockey highlights on the net and not really coming up with anything we could all really agree upon, we had wasted about 15-20 mins. So with what we had I came up with a typical 2 guys fighting over the girl kind of scene. We filmed it quickly, came back and put it together with some music and added a couple of special effects. Keith actually showed me how to do slow motion and add text to the screen. So in about 25 mins we came up with this. Enjoy.
Alright, this is a special moment and I'm proud to debut my very first video creation. It all started this past week when I decided to try and make a video for my cohort. As mentioned in a previous blog (see below), my cohort is super cool (previously mentioned as pretty cool but they've been up graded since). Sorry Eric but this could be the best cohort EVER!!!! That's right I said it. Even this past week I learned that a few of them play guitar (and played while we sat on the grass during lunch yesterday), one painted a portrait of Obama with knives (pic to be posted at a later date), and one played a bar of the Imperial March in a presentation (to a roaring applause). Each day I learn more and more about them and not only are they great people but they are going to be great teachers as well. I could go on and on about them all day but let’s get back to the story….
So I've been carrying a video camera around for the past week. It started with documenting a video my group is making for another presentation (I think it's our last one together this semester, kinda sad). Every since that 830 meeting on Tuesday, I've been trying to film as much of my class experiences this week as I can while paying attention. I've had to explain on more than one occasion to my profs what I was doing. Thanks to my cohort for allowing me to point a camera at them all week. Some are a bit shy which is okay and some are starting to warm up to it. A few started to wonder what I was thinking/ trying to do and I explained in one of our classes that I thought about doing a class year book kind of idea. So to ease their nerves a bit and give them a look at what I wanted to do. So I made a quick teaser video to get them to hopefully be a little more open to the camera and some ideas I have to show the greatness these people have. It was a bit risky to make it my first ever video but what the heck.
At first I just had some pics that one of my profs asked us to take in our first class. Unfortunately, there was only 21 pics of the 28 members. So I took these pics and thought about creating a quick slide show to some music. So I took them and tried to match the changing of the pics to the beats of Power by Kanye. Once I figured out a few things, I got it done with some simple clicking and dragging. After I watched it a few times, I decided to try adding in some clips. Using an idea that I've seen Saint do on some Inside the Mobb Episodes (Season Premiere coming soon) and add some clips that was chopped up to follow the beat. I ended up doing a clip and figuring out how to do it, got me thinking that I should try it to another song. So I used More by Usher and started to add more clips. Next thing you know it was like 430 in the morning and I had 830 class to get to. All I could think of the next day was getting home and finishing it up. After school I went over to Dela's place where he showed me a couple of things: adding in text and a simple transition. From there I was able to finish the rest on my own (which took me to about 430 this morning again). I pretty much done the video when I realized that I wasn't in there at all except for my pic. So I poked a lil fun at myself and tried to pull out my best dance moves (although I'm no Saint or Mike Garcia). I wanted to show them that I can be embarrassed sometimes too.
So the vid isn't quite up to the level of Saint, Eric, Cam's, etc. It's a bit choppy and doesn't transition as cool as in Mobb vids. Hopefully I will be able to learn from those Jedi Masters so that I can come up with something EXCEPTIONAL for my new friends. Here it is. Hope you like it.
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Here's a little clip I got from Eric's blog (http://sungnation.blogspot.com/). It was funny that I've been watching some old N'SYNC performances lately and then I saw this. So cool. I've always wished for musical talent like these guys. Enjoy
So the Mobb 2010-2011 season will begin Monday as Mobb will face the K9's. Our rivals/ friends were the only team to beat us in the regular season last year. As we head into this big game at the start of this year's season, here's a look back on last year's. Props to our stud, Saint, for his creative brilliance. Hope to see you out for a game this year. "Why not?" Enjoy
So as most of you already know, I'm at U of M in their Education program. I'm in the sr stream with my teachables being phys ed and general science. I've been well "educated" by some good friends in second year about the workload that I will have to endure. A quick thanks to Eric, Trista, and Mark for showing me the ropes and making me feel cool for knowing some people outside of my cohort.
My Cohort is pretty cool. We are just starting to bond more. Between classes we'll hang out and chat at the tables or in our next classroom. We've had some presentations and seen some of the creativity that we have in the room. Last night was supposed to be an Ed Social at the new Area Night Club (the old OC) but since it was so busy, there were only 5 of us (that I saw) that got in. It would have been cool to have all of us there to hang outside of our school setting but the five of us had a great time ripping up the dance floor and hanging out. I think that we're going to plan another night where we can all go out together. The Limelight would be a good idea I think. I'd be interested to hear what people would sing.
The pic above shows the comments given to us by our psyc prof on our first big group presentation. We got an A for our role play and discussion of gender differences in schools. Props goes out to Rhianna, Jennifer, Rob, and Ashley. Everyone did a great job acting out our two scenes (a gym teacher getting his kids to do push ups and an English teacher handing out our graded papers) and we got a great discussion going on afterwards. Our Second presentation this week featured 4 out of the 5 of us teaching the rest of our class how to use Questioning in our teaching methods. We had another great presentation in which our teacher gave us some high praise. We're hoping that means that we'll be getting another A if not an A+ for our effort.
I have a great group and am pretty lucky to be working with them. For scheduling purposes, we've teamed up for pretty much all of our group presentations. We've done a pretty good job and spaced out our stuff to keep us from getting overwhelmed. This week was our hardest week with 2 presentations (along with 2 or 3 more assignments). Our group works really well together. Even though we meet early on most Tuesday and Thursdays (which are my days we should be sleeping in), we get quite a bit done and in efficient fashion. We are open to each others ideas and (even some of my crazy ones) let our work speak for itself. I know that each one of them will be great teachers. I've enjoyed learning from them as well as with them. More magic to come, stay tuned...
