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Senior project final day

 Today May 24th, was the last day of senior project. I started off the day by driving to my beach house and rye and setting up on my deck to do some final edits to my video and finish writing my final reflection. I can say now that my video is in its final form after I watched it multiple times today. I spent the rest of the day reflecting on the entirety of senior project as I wrote my paper. I actually enjoyed writing the paper as it was a good recap of the fun that I have had the last 2 weeks. Im looking forward to express fest tomorrow where I will be able to finally share the product that I've spent the last 2 weeks constructing. It will be interesting to see what other peoples opinions are on my video. It will be fun to share the video with the parents of the people who I interviewed. I have enjoyed writing down my journey throughout senior project and may honestly invest in a journal of some sort to write down my everyday endeavors moving forwards. Im happy to be done but de...
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Senior project week 2 day 5

 Today May 20th, I began to navigate iMovie to start place all of my edited clips in there. I think the hardest thing about the initial editing was removing some background noise from my interviews that I completed in the library. First I went in and calibrated all my videos to the tone of the interviewees skin, this made it so the background looked brighter in comparison making all of my interview days look golden. Secondly I went through and made sure that I was putting the people in the correct order, as I wanted to create a good mix of boys and girls in each question. Lastly I made sure that the background music wasn't too loud in comparison to my interviewees voices, I found that the right balance was a very very low amount of music to a much larger quantity of voice. Im starting to really get the hang of iMovie as I move into my last week of senior project. Not to brag but I may be the next Spielberg... project hours may 20th-5 total project hours 56.25
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Senior project week 3 day 1

Today May 23rd, I completed the editing process for my final cut of my senior project video. It was definitely a lot of work today as I spent almost all the day editing, other than a short 3 hour gym session. I feel as though I really got into the swing of things when I just sat down and got the editing done. I added a lot to my interviews, creating a multimedia masterpiece. I'm not saying I should be in the voting for the oscars but I most certainly should be a honorable mention. I am very very happy to be done with editing because now I can finally see it all together. This project is coming to a close with express fest on Wednesday and I really am proud of what I have created. I would like to thank everyone who made my video possible, a huge thanks to Ryan Graumann for overseeing the process and giving me the b roll I needed to really make this video perfect. Reflecting on senior project in its entirety the editing pieces I really see as something I could use in the future. Navi...
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Senior project week 2 reflection

 In the second week of senior project, I rapped up the interview portion of my project and began editing the footage that I had received. I started off Monday interviewing Brynne Makeckhnie in Slocumb hall where I used the blue ceramics wall as my background, thanks to Kate Austin. This week I really became familiar with the editing process, as im currently using iMovie. Lucky enough iMovie is not exactly "Rocket Science" so I was able to figure it out pretty quick. I began the process by sorting my clips and cutting them into sections. Some of my answers were better in certain parts so finding those good parts was really the beggining. On Tuesday I drove to campus to get some footage of Tucker, Tate, and Josh playing baseball, so I could layer the video of Josh getting a hit over the audio from his interview answer relating to baseball. I enjoyed filming the baseball players as it gave me an excuse to watch them play. The rest of the days of the week I spent reviewing and ed...
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Senior project week 2 day 4

 Today May 19th, I stayed home with the intent of sitting down and grinding out the majority of my editing. I spent the majority of the day separating audio from video and finding photos of campus to put over my questions. As I go through my edited footage finding other types of media to thread into the video is important. At this point in my project their is not many exciting things going on, it is mostly editing that is quite laborious. All I can say is that Ryan was not exaggerating when he told me that editing would be 3 times the amount of time as the filming. Luckily today was quite rainy which created a perfect environment for me to sit at my desk and edit video. As senior project is close to its end Im excited to finish up my video and share it. I still have a lot of editing to complete in the next couple days, so let's just say I'm in the 7th inning of this project.  hours may 19th- 4 hours total project hours 51.25
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Senior project week 2 day 3

 Today May 18th, I traveled to campus to get some more footage of my interviews during their afternoon activities. I spent the majority of the afternoon at the varsity baseball game getting footage of Tucker Deyett, Josh Reed, Tate Matte and Cieron Britton. Both Josh and Cieron gave me answers relating to baseball during our interview so I thought it would make sense to get some clips of them in action. After the game I Headed to the library to export all of my videos from baseball from my phone to my computer and iPad for editing. I spent a while just shortening and editing just clips from baseball to very small sections so I could insert them into my iMovie, along with the audio of Josh and Cieron explaining what makes the baseball team special to them. Currently I have 9 students whose clips I will be using in the final video, despite me wanting to interview a couple more. I think the majority of seniors have now become so deep in their senior project that it is quite difficult ...
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Senior project week 2 day 2

 Today May 17th, I started the editing process for my final video. After interviewing Brynne Makechknie in the afternoon, I felt I had enough clips to start cutting them down and placing them into the iMovie reel. If I happen to stumble upon some more people tomorrow to interview I will but for now I feel confident I have enough clips to start building my draft. I think the editing is definitely going to be the longest, so far just today I spent about 3 hours just working on some of the initial pieces of the edit. I have found that just sitting down and in a quiet spot and doing multiple hours of the editing really is worth it, as in all it will help me get ahead. So far the editing process has gone well, I have somewhat of a understanding of how to use iMovie but will definitely face some challenges later in the process.  hours may 17th- 6 total project hours- 41.75 hours
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