My Autobiography Experience

       Working on my autobiography in my interactive journalism class was a great experience.  Not only did I get to make a video about my life, but I got to learn about my family background.  Some of the things my mother and father had experienced I had never known.  I enjoyed interviewing my family members and videotaping my niece.  Editing the video was even more fun because I had so many options and ideas to incorporate with my footage and my pictures.  Even though it was a long process in the making, I'm happy with the outcome of my video and I'm sure my friends and family are going to like it too.

Autobiography Video

This project was very educational. I was able to learn more about video editing and choosing the right videos/images to make the who video tie together. I was also able to play around with keyframing and learned how to do some cool things. The easiest part of this project was finding pictures and collecting videos that could possibly be incorporated into my project. The hardest part was putting everything all together to go along with my narration and making sure that the video flowed nicely and was not boring. 

Here is the final product

Biography Project

Today is the last day of interactive journalism class.  I really liked this class and learned a lot.  I finished my biography project two days ago.  I did a biography video about my grandfather.  At first I didn't have many ideas for the project.  I didn't have enough information to write a narration.  Once I interviewed and filmed my grandfather I felt like I knew more about him.  It was really interesting to learn about his life. I wrote a narration about his life and put them to corresponding photos.  I used the interview throughout the video.  My narration didn't cover all of the important parts of his life so I incorporated the interview in those parts.  Although I wanted to use the interview some parts got boring and I did not want the viewer to lose interested so I added more pictures.  There are some things I would have changed if I had more time but overall I think the video came out pretty well.  

AD'S Say NO TO The Super Bowl

In today's Boston Globe there was an article about how major marketing companies like Pepsi, General Motors, and Fedex will not take part in advertising their product during the biggest event of the year (Super Bowl) due to the economy.

For years now their commercials have been a big part of the Super Bowl. 

I usually watch these commercials to see which ones will be the funniest. Although some companies backed out because of the economy such as the ones listed above, there are still big companies that are willing to spend the big bucks for a 30 second spot. Those companies include Coca-Cola, Monster.com, and Anheuser-Busch.

This year a 30 second commercial will cost somewhere between $2.5 million and $3 million for the spot and an additional $1 million just to produce.

In my opinion I think that the big companies that were listed in the beginning should put there commercial on the market because I don't think the economy is a big factor to companies like Pepsi who is a multi million dollar industry.

The Christmas Shocker

If anyone heard of the murder on Christmas in a convenience store in Jamaica Plain, you would know that it's just not right. Especially if it happened on Christmas, that was even more shocking. Another shocker is that the victim was a Nepali immigrant who had come to the United States to build a better life for his family and they were soon enough going to come to the United States to be with him. This story is even more of a shocker than all of the robberies at gunpoint that we hear of although all of the others are just as bad. I think that this is just not right at all, especially since it happened on Christmas. There was an article on the Boston Herald and this is the article.

This was also something that made news as do all of the big stories. I thought that article told most of the facts of when he was laid to rest.

Train your Brain Again

Today I read an article in the New York Times about brains. In this article the writer begins by talking about how she loves to read history books, but only seems to remember the main points in the story and not the details. 

This article also goes into detail about how you lose memory around the ages of 40 through 60. 

One example of the memory loss is how you can be boiling water at a some point but when the door bell rings and you go to answer the door  you then forget about the water boiling. I find this strange because that sounds like something I would do and I'm not even close to 40 years old.

Some of the causes of brain memory loss  is because of  neural connections, which receive, process and transmit information, can weaken with disuse or age.

I thought this article was interesting because I enjoy reading about parts of the body and how they are used.  I relate to this article because my grandfather has a mild cause of this. He is 75 and seems to have all of these traits.