Reflection 19

April 30th 2009

Today, we started watching everyone's finalized videos. I took notes about the comments that students made after watching certain videos, and also some of the areas they could have improved. There were a certain videos that I liked and some I disliked. One of the videos that I particularly liked as Lucas'. I thought his video was very professionally done, and creative. The video had a very dramatic effect to it, allowing the audience to feel more captured into the video. It was very epic, just like the commercials that are played in every DVD that you buy from stores. Overall, I thought his video was well created, though the only thing I didn't like about it was the dialogue, his voice did not match the video at all, and sometimes the background music covered up his voice, which made it particularly hard to hear and comprehend to the audience. Another video that I liked was Joanna's. It was also very well thought of and professionally made. She used effects that increased the dramatic effect within the video, and the font style and background music increased it even more. Overall, I thought her video was well made, though it might have been too descriptive, and some of those scenes were too fast, which was hard for us to grasp. Another thing I liked about her video was that the starting and ending of each scene followed the offbeat of the background music. One of the videos I disliked was Marcus' video. The background sounds were very loud, which covered the dialogue. It was very noisy, and it showed that he didn't use the microphone well because it also captured the background noise. I thought he chose the worst setting because it was on the 3rd floor, during break time, where it was the loudest area in the entire school. He also chose the worst time to film there because during break time, the area tends to be very loud because people play basketball, run around, talk, etc. Though the video was humorous, and it made everyone laugh. Another video that I didn't like was Michelle's one. It seemed like too much was going on at once, and it ended up making the video very messy. The message was quite clear, though the images and text that popped up seemed like too much. Overall, I liked the effects that she added in, though it was too confusing, because I couldn't really focus on anything because too much was happening at the same time. At the end of the lesson, there was no time to watch my video so I didn't hear any feedback yet, though I am still looking forward to hearing the comments. This lesson, I was able to watch many videos concerning Intellectual Property, and was also able to see how creative other classmates were. The comments and feedback that were given to other classmates were useful because I am now able to prevent some of the mistakes that they made from their videos.