Parents, teachers and students are invited to attend the first Video Journalism Film Festival. Congratulations to Chloe and her winning poster design!
Production Crews, please continue to work on your short intro video and the Empathy project. You need to organize a time to collaborate with the Wellness students. Shooting is scheduled to begin on Monday.
It is time to share the talent and start broadcasting on our blogs. The easiest way to include our videos on our blogs is to insert YouTube videos into a post. This way your blog can also act as a portfolio of your work. Before we do this, we need to set up some guidelines and check to make sure that this is acceptable under our school policy. At present, there is only one official school video posted on YouTube and you can watch it below. Once we begin posting, we will be susceptible to the same range of comments and criticisms as are found after Mr. Gelb’s video but I am confident we are mature enough to handle those situations.
There are also countless videos independently created by students that have been filmed on campus. You can find these by searching on YouTube. While these videos have been posted for personal interests and include footage, students and faculty shot on campus, we will be posting as part of our class so we will need to follow certain guidelines that match both school policy and the YouTube Terms of Service.
Be aware that agreeing to the Terms of Service grant YouTube certain rights over your videos:
“you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service.”
Are you comfortable with that?
Also, the person setting up the account needs to be over the age of 13 and you need your parent’s permission.
“You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms of Service, and to abide by and comply with these Terms of Service. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as the YouTube Website is not intended for children under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the YouTube Website. There are lots of other great web sites for you. Talk to your parents about what sites are appropriate for you.”
Some guidelines for the videos you post :
Please post any thoughts here including anything I may have missed.
The date has been set for December 7 at 3pm in the Little Theater. We still need to hammer out a couple of details though.
1) What is the goal of the Festival? – Should it be a competition, a showcase of our best work or something else?
2) What order will we present our work? – Will we group the films by project or by production company?
3) Can we think of a more original name for the Festival? – We need something creative that will arouse people’s curiosity to attend.
4) We need to design a poster to promote the festival. Check out my first draft above and post one on your blog by Monday.
5) Who will be the MCs? – What do you think of having 2 MCs?
Here are some other examples of Film Festival Posters to get some ideas. Make note of how each poster includes somthing to do with film like a reel or a camera as well as a design that reflects the location.
Each production crew needs to:
Just came across this video that is a great example of stop motion in a very original way, using t-shirts to animate the story. The making of shows the time and planning that had to go into the production.
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Thanks to Mr. Kucharski for sharing the link to artist Yang Liu’s exhibit in Germany. The exhibit was designed to show the differences between German and Chinese cultures. Check out the design and consider whether these pieces encourage or demonstrate empathy. Click on the image to view the Yang Liu’s site and more of her work.
Great work on the logos everyone, we are in the process of installing Adobe Illustrator in the lab so we will be animating and inserting them into our films. Special thanks to our guest speaker for coming in and critiquing our logos. Please continue to post your reflections of the class on your blog. Also, feel free to post videos or images that you come across that demonstrate good design or film techniques but be sure to include an explanation of why you posted it.
Let’s continue the discussion about elements of good design as we prepare for our next project. We are going to be designing signs that can elicit a response from the reader. We will film the creative process and then the reaction that the sign has on the reader. The video above provides a neat example of people reacting to the signs. Are the signs effective and why do you think they were designed the way that they were?
Here are a couple of signs that encourage empathy. One is text based while the other is very visual. What do you think when you see these signs? What point are they trying to get across? Are they effective?
Source: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=1562
Source: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=1540
To get a better idea about signs that encourage or demonstrated empathy, have a look at this presentation. What is the difference between signs that encourage empathy and those that demonstrate it?
Please post your individual reflection on the images and videos here before Wednesday’s class. Start your comment by explaining what empathy is and answer some of the questions within your reflection.
All of your footage should be completed by the beginning of Friday’s class so that we can begin editing. We will be viewing your new logos so please have all versions posted on your blog. Here are some cool fonts and logos that I have come across that may provide some inspiration.
We will start with this original logo, looks like some advanced photoshop here. The image was found here.
Here is a neat flowing font that suggests movement. The image was found here.
Take a close look at this one, what a creative idea for a font. The image was found here.
 
The Halloween episode will be ready just a little after Halloween. Fur on Fire are working on this one and they have been asking what people are planning to dress as for Halloween.
