Tuesday, December 15, 2015

semester reflection

Semester Review

     This semester at Olathe Northwest High School we learned many new things that we can apply to our every day lives as well as our upcoming semester in video. The most important things we improved on this year would probably be our editing skills. On every project that you work on in video you will most likely have to edit your film before you put it not the timeline. Last year we learned how to edit, but this your we vastly improved our editing skills and really dug into how to do everything on the timeline. Another important asset that we learned this year was the rule of thirds. This helped s out a lot when in a interview we needed to show the audience who they are watching and listening to. This year we were able to apply all of the shortcut keys that we learned in last years video class so it will improve or speed and quality of our projects while working. My favorite project that we did would have to be the one where you got assigned a person to write a story over and really got to know them better. I was assigned Will Vestal as my partner and I got to learn how his baseball skills have affected his life and others around him. He did his story over me, which i told him about my amazing Guitar Hero skills and abilities that lead me to be a great video game player. Most of my elements that I applied in my projects worked and turned out to help my project in the long run. This semester we didn't learn very much but we did improve all our skills that we learned last year by a vast amount. I really think that my social skills and Collaboration with teammates improved greatly this year because we have done more group projects and projects that required us to work with a team and really lean on each other. I really ended up enjoying all the things we learned in this class and all the projects that we have completed throughout the course of this semester. Next semester i am going to try and focus on our tasks provided and not get off task talking to other people or working on other things but other than that I'm going to do everything i did this semester because it turned out to be pretty good and I turned out to get pretty good grades on my projects that I am happy with and would want to increase the grade on them a little bit for the next semester but that would be it. Next semester I hope to learn new elements that will improve my learning and increase my quality on projects that we will do in the future so when i get out into the real world i will remember all the things i learned and be able to apply them to my job.