Assignment #15: TILT Reflection

     This week, my group and I accomplish was finishing the pitch worksheet and the scene and dialogue draft. It was really awesome that we got to put our own ideas and opinions in the scene and dialogue but  for the pitch worksheet we got to put all our ideas into one. The team tries to put all their effort into making our film better but most of the time we didn't get the work done until we had to tell each other to get on task to get the work done.  Even though it's not easy to get the work done but at least we try to get most of the work done.  The struggles our team faced was picking the genres for our film and we kept on fighting over what film genres that we wanted in the film. Our team  worked through the struggle by making a compromise about the genre we wanted in the film. I'm looking forward to get done with shooting the videos and edit all of them when we shoot our film next week. 

It was nerve wrecking when we had to go to the front of the class to present our pitch to the class. What I got out of this session was constructive criticism from my peers and learned how to get used to sharing a pitch to the whole class. The session helped me get through my nervousness when speaking in front of the class about an idea that we are going to make as a film. It went really well when people gave their comments about our pitch and what we should do about our film. 


School year 2013-14 will be affected by a $500,000 cut across the board 

Source: http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_28c0e5e2-8cba-11e2-b79a-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story

Due to deep cuts made by legislature already, the projected budget deficit for 2011-12 was reduced to a total of $4.4 billion rather than the staggering $17.2 billion.

Source: http://thepioneeronline.com/news/politics/2012/05/state-budget-proposal-may-affect-hayward-schools/

it's expected there will be $87 million in education cuts as well as reductions in federal funding for environmental, public health, child care and other services.

Source:http://castrovalley.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/federal-budget-cuts-will-reach-programs-in-castro-valley

Doubles the maximum value of the childless worker EITC to build on the EITC’s success in encouraging people to enter the workforce and reducing poverty; improves tax benefits that help middle-class and working families pay for child care and college and save for retirement.

Source:http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget

Assignment #11: Technology Interview & We Video

The challenges of being interviewed on camera are the questions were too proficient, background noises, the thought process of an answer to the question, there was no prep time, eye contact to the camera, and staying in character. The questions were too proficient because it wasn't explained as much that we can understand. The background was too noisy to record the interviews and it was disturbing us or the interviewee. The thought process of an answer to the question was too hard and it was hard to choose which technology was our favorite. There was no prep time to prepare ourselves to answer the questions that we were being asked about. Staying in character when being interviewed without goofing off in the videos was really hard.


What we learned about conducting an interview is that it has a lot of work and we had to think really hard about the answers because it was hard to choose which technology was our favorite. No, we didn't try anything exciting but one of our group members tried smiling in the camera was the exciting part of the interview video.Being interview was kind a like the exciting part to too, but the interruption on the background makes us lost our focus. One thing that should be changed is a more detailed question like how would the media portray you or the community because it was really confusing and no one didn't understand the question. Another thing that should be changed is the setting of the interview because there were too many background noises.

Assignment #10: Genre Brainstorming

Group Name: Outta Da Box

Three movie ideas:

1) Family: Families in Hayward are in need and the trillion dollars will help better their lives. They will do anything for a trillion dollars. The tasks will range from sane to idiotic.

2) Society: We are going to be telling stories about families in society and we will reenact their stories with puppets.

3) Unemployed: An unemployed man falls in love with a wealthy woman. She doesn't know that the man is unemployed. He tries to hide the fact that he is unemployed, but she ends up finding out his secret. The woman ultimately has to decide whether to love him as a poor man or let him go.

Production Roles:

Actors: Rene Lujan

Production:

-Script Writer: Irene David

-Production Assistant: Faith Gavino

Camera: Serrena Henry

Sound-Person: Aly Rodriguez

Interviewer: Faith Gavino

Post-production Roles:

Titles and Graphics: Rene Lujan

Music: Irene David

Fact-Checker: Faith Gavino

Photos & Stock Footage: Serrena Henry

Genres of three movie ideas:

1) Family: Comedy

2) Society: Science-Fiction-Experimental

3) Unemployed: Romantic-Comedy