I thought her movie was really funny; it made me laugh. This movie is a great way to help you understand how important it is to eat healthy. I hope she continues working hard to reach her goal.
Excellent job on your digital document movie!!!
Yuriana Hernandez CSU CHICO student
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Reification
The digital document/mini-movie, involved too much work from my part. It involved hard work and too much thinking in order to convey my idea across to my specific audience. I had to first decide what my learning was, and the different levels of obstacles I encounter when learning that new thing. After I knew what I wanted to talk about, then came the big question, "how do I put all my ideas together in a way that it's interesting and makes sense to my audience."
I made my movie on learnig how to make better choices when it comes to eating healthy. For this reason, I thought that I would definetely need pictures of me showing why I want to loose weight (because I am fat and scared for my own health), the things I did wrong when it came to eating habits (eating fast food and junk food), and the things I had to learned in order to accomplish my goal (eating more veggies, fruits, drinking lots of water, reading food labels, stop eating junk food). I also thought about a song that would demonstrate the way I feel about doing this change in my life, and I think I found just the right song: "Rocky Balboa's theme song." Every time I hear that song, it makes me thing of not giving up. It's a song that I relate with courage and willpower. That's what I had to go through when learning how to eat better.
First, I went to McDonalds and bought a hamburger that I didn't even eat (it was so hard), to show a video of me throwing the junk food in the trash can, getting rid of it. With this I wanted to demonstrate that in the past, even though I wanted to loose weight, I always fail to eat healthy and went back to eating junk food. I also went to a grocery store and had my husband take pictures and video of me shopping the right way, making sure that my cart included lots of veggies and fruits. My husband was a great support in the making of this movie and in the learing of eating right as well. He has changed his eating habits just to give me moral support. Once I had all the images and video that I needed, I proceeded on arranging then on chronological order. After I had all the images in the order I wanted, I began to write my narrative that would go along with it. That was a much easier process because I just explained them. Of corse, I had to make sure that it made sense and that it had transitions like in an essay. One thing I struggled with, was the music. Eventhough I knew what kind of music I wanted I didn't know how to have music and narrative at the same time. To make things easier for me, I played the song while I recorded my narrative, and that solved my problem.
At the end, I can say that I feel pretty good about the final product of this mini-movie. I just hope that the movie will demonstrate what I wanted to convey. I also hope that it demosntrates all the effort I put in the making of this movie.
I made my movie on learnig how to make better choices when it comes to eating healthy. For this reason, I thought that I would definetely need pictures of me showing why I want to loose weight (because I am fat and scared for my own health), the things I did wrong when it came to eating habits (eating fast food and junk food), and the things I had to learned in order to accomplish my goal (eating more veggies, fruits, drinking lots of water, reading food labels, stop eating junk food). I also thought about a song that would demonstrate the way I feel about doing this change in my life, and I think I found just the right song: "Rocky Balboa's theme song." Every time I hear that song, it makes me thing of not giving up. It's a song that I relate with courage and willpower. That's what I had to go through when learning how to eat better.
First, I went to McDonalds and bought a hamburger that I didn't even eat (it was so hard), to show a video of me throwing the junk food in the trash can, getting rid of it. With this I wanted to demonstrate that in the past, even though I wanted to loose weight, I always fail to eat healthy and went back to eating junk food. I also went to a grocery store and had my husband take pictures and video of me shopping the right way, making sure that my cart included lots of veggies and fruits. My husband was a great support in the making of this movie and in the learing of eating right as well. He has changed his eating habits just to give me moral support. Once I had all the images and video that I needed, I proceeded on arranging then on chronological order. After I had all the images in the order I wanted, I began to write my narrative that would go along with it. That was a much easier process because I just explained them. Of corse, I had to make sure that it made sense and that it had transitions like in an essay. One thing I struggled with, was the music. Eventhough I knew what kind of music I wanted I didn't know how to have music and narrative at the same time. To make things easier for me, I played the song while I recorded my narrative, and that solved my problem.
At the end, I can say that I feel pretty good about the final product of this mini-movie. I just hope that the movie will demonstrate what I wanted to convey. I also hope that it demosntrates all the effort I put in the making of this movie.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Digital Document
Last time, I had all the ideas on how I wanted to make my digital document and put it into a movie. I have moved on from that stage, now I am in the polishing stage. At this point I am working on making my mini-movie better. So far I have included pictures, videos, music, and my narration. It is a finished product that has a lot of space for improvement. In the last few days I've been thinking of different ways to improve my movie. I have been thinking of new narration that I can include, as well as new images. First, I wanted the music I chose as background music. I wanted the music to be playing while I was narrating, but since I couldn't do it, I am kind of liking it the way it sounds with it. I did include it almost at the end of the movie and it continuos through the credits. I hope this movie to be good and to be something that other people can relate to.
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