Thanksgiving Interviews

The Next assignment for our class is an interview to be completed over Thanksgiving break. The assignment is to interview an older person and ask them 3 questions about the past.
For example; Interview the oldest person in attendance at your thanksgiving dinner, ask them the following.
What was the funniest thing that happened at a Thanksgiving or other holiday event?
What was a typical Holiday gathering like when they were a child? Who was there, what was on the menu? Where did the kids eat? What did the adults do?
What are they thankful for today?

Ask your qestions in advance to allow people to think about it before you start the interview.

Record the interview using a video camera, the movie setting on your camera, or just take still pictues and record the responses using g-cast.

Bring in your clips edit and drop them into movie maker, post to the class account on vimeo.

Good luck, hopefully you will learn some really interesting things about your parents, grandparents, older siblings and you!

If you are interested in creating this assignment as a podcast here is the how to link for gcast http://www.gcast.com/htdb/services/track1.html

Filming Calendar

Here is the handy dandy calendar for filming

Calling all student Photographers

At last a ning for you.

Find more photos like this on T H E . L E N S



If you don't know a ning is a type of social network for people that have similar interests. This one is for student photographers, gee I wonder if there are any students in multimedia that have photos? dOH! Get to it! here is a place to put up your stuff and learn new things too. So if you are passionate about photography or even if you just like it a lot, this will help you improve.
The Lens - A network for student photographers.

Fun for This Week

Well theres a few fun things for this week first its BeFunky a cartoonizer for any of your photos. Check out this tutorial.

Cartoonizer in Action from BeFunky on Vimeo.

Also there is Layers Magazine and most importatntly, Photoshop Killer Tips. I apologize in advance for what you will find because many of you would have found the fade to white technique most helpful in the layers collage.

Story Boards Due Nov 18

Storyboards are required for your movie project. They do not have to be perfect drawings but they should explain the number and nature of the shots you propose to shoot. They are due November 18th (thats next week) they are worth 50 points.

Screencast Tutorials

Heres what I'd like to do with our photostory project. Divide into groups and create about 4 screencasts that will document what to do with the photostory files we created for the 4th graders. Since all of the editing work has to happen on one computer now it makes sense to give a step by step how to for them so that they can do their own story editing. What topics i would propose is

• importing video files to moviemaker (the photostories).
• importing pictures
• creating titles over the pictures and animations for the titles
• adding transitions
• adding a music file, finding music for presentations

Each group would make up a quick story board and do one of these screencasts, we can save them as quicktime movies and up load straight to our class blog. If you want to upload to vimeo that would be cool too.

Here is a video I made with jing

Screencast-O-Matic

Here is a screencast I created on screencast-o-matic hopefully it will work for our photostory projects

I uploaded this file to vimeo as well and you can see it on our multimedia group file in vimeo.


screencast from ann darling on Vimeo.

Have You Tried Voki?

Hey guys this is a really cool web 2.0. product. You do have to verify your're human through an email activation but its free and way cool. Listen to Mrs. Darling below!

Get a Voki now!

Another photo class' blog

I ran across this class and their blog through digital photography school they also published the top ten tips that they learned on DPS. Check em out

Toondoo

Hi
If you and your partner have everything done for the photostory, you can check out toondoo which is a really cool comic generator. If you have an email account you can register and work right away! Enjoy
http://www.toondoo.com/Home.do?param=log&msg=1

try editing this cartoon