Grading and Finals: First Semester

Final grades for this semester are due April 15th.

Grades will be based on:

1) Attendance
As I have always mentioned, this class is largely based on attendance and participation.
6 absences = no credit
5 absences = lowering of letter grade
4 absences = lowering of letter grade
1-3 = no lowering of letter grade

Try to get your absences excused!

2) Participation
Are you participating in class assignments and projects? Are you engaged and active in your learning? Do I have to constantly tell you the same things over and over like:
" Can you please focus on what you are doing and get off Youtube?"
" Can you please pick your head while I am talking?"

3) Assignments
a. First Editing Project
Have your finished your first editing project?

b. Second Editing Project: Practice Music Video
Have your completed your second editing project?


c. Anti-Smoking Videos Blog--Due April 5th
Videos are found:
http://www.the84.org/filmshorts/2010
Create your own blog featuring your top 3 favorite anti-smoking videos. Also, create a link to your least favorite video.
Embed only 1 of the videos and create links to the others.
Make sure to create descriptions about why you liked the video or didn't like the video.
Make sure you check your grammar.

d. Music Video Story Board: April 15


EXTRA CREDIT  I Create a Power Point of Film Terminologies listed on your sheet-April 15


EXTRA CREDIT II April 15


Watch this documentary entitled "Growing Up Online"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/

Create your own blog post reflection on the video. You can generate your own thoughts and feelings but here are some questions to get you started:
How can you related to the film?
How have you grown up online?
Do you think this influx of digital media is a detriment to your education? why or why not?
Where is the use of media not appropriate.
Get personal and try to reflect about your own experience "Growing up Online."

Be sure to include a link to the video/website and pictures.
Pay attention to spelling and grammar.

After watching all the videos i have chosen the top 3 i like and the 1 i feel was poorly made.

First Place:

Somebody's Watching Me - Masconomet High School 

I felt this one was the best because its funny and everyone knows were the theme is from. 

Second Place: How Far Would You Go - Masconomet High School

I felt this was a good video because it shows how friends could help stop smoking and it was a pretty funny video.

Third Place:Tobacco Attack - Holyoke High School

This was also a good video because its funny and you understand the what the creators were getting at.

Last Place: The Sink- Northampton High School

I felt this video was poorly made because it didn't have any information in it and not one word was said threw out the whole video.

Reflections on Mr. Nour's visit?

What did you learn from Naveed Nour's visit?
Thoughts and feelings...
Anything that you took away.

The picture I liked was two men sitting on a bench. This picture dragged my attention because it shows two different men in different places doing the same thing but not knowing that some where else in the world there is another person doing the same thing as you. I think that Mr. Nour photographed this image because he wanted to capture the relationship between the two men and how they are doing the same thing but not knowing it.

I'm drawn into this image because it shows what people in western parts do and wear in the sun and what Middle-Easterners wear. It shows how old fashion the left side is compared to the picture at the right side. At the right side people are dancing, some have no shirts on, and pretty much partying. I also notice women in the right side. But on the left side, people are sitting down, with all cloth on, under the sun, shows how frustrated they are. Theirs also no women, only men.  The left side is staring at the right side curiously and look as if they're giving attention, it shows that they are willing to change to modern society.

Photo

I find this image interesting because Naveed Nour shows the past and the future in one shot. On the left side you can see the present in color and on the right side you can see the past in black and white. The two shots are also in different seasons.

Naveed Nour

Naveed Nour is known for being a great photographer. The photos he takes are looked at as pieces of art. Most of his photos in his gallery online, were mostly of people in their daily routine without noticing the camera. His best pictures seem to be taken in the time of the Iran/Iraq war. 

I chose this picture out of the gallery because it looks like two different cultures, one in color and the other in black and white, that are just waiting. The people in the picture look like they're just killing time by reading the paper on a bench, or waiting in front of a building that could be anything public like a bank. Something that also interested me was that the people in black and white seem to be looking up and the people in color seem to be looking down. I'm not sure of the reason but that could be something that Naveed wanted to capture in making this photo.