Semester Reflection

News Packages

Brendan Dunwiddie Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN78pQwXfQw

This was my first story with Val of this year. We interviewed Brendan on why he switched from football to cross-country. It took us about five days for us to make this story. We had to find time to interview Brendan and the head coach. We also had a hard time getting b-roll for this. Val had to go and run with the team one day.

Concussion Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfq30NqejxA

We had our second story on why the amount of football players is going down due to concussions. We went to Blue Valley South on a Saturday to film b-roll of the Blue Valley Little League Football Club. Val interviewed the commissioner of the club before we went out. Later that week we interviewed our School's Trainer. In total the project took five days to make. This story was put into a competition for an award of the best news packages that month. I don't know we placed but it wasn't the top three. But the feedback we got was very good so we probably placed pretty high.

Band Festival Package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBPl3otGv4

This is the B in one of ONW Now's newest segments: ONW A to Z. Olathe Northwest, North, South, and East had a Band Festival On Monday October 5, 2015. Val and I went to this festival and brought three cameras. One was set for a wide shot of the whole show while Val brought another one to get some closer shots of the band. I also brought my DSLR camera with one of my really good zoomed up lens to get a different angle of close ups. We interview ONW's principal Dr. Gwen Poss about this festival. We filmed all this on Monday and edited and voiced over on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Plagiarism Package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hem34XfkGc

A few weeks back our former teacher Court Allam asked Val and I if we could do a story over plagiarism and what it is and how ONW is keeping it from happening. This took us a few days to make. probably around six to seven days. First we had to do our research on what plagiarism technically is. Then we had to find the right people to interview who were little more passionate on the subject (It was more we had to find some english teachers who had no classes when we were filming). Interviewing took about two or three days to secure them and actually do them. Then we had to find B-Roll to use and that was harder then it sounds to do. Val had got some in the library but that wasn't good enough so he went into a classroom of one of the teachers we interviewed. Finally we had everything we needed and now all we needed to do was voiceover and we were done. But I got sick and I had the script. Val got it from me a day later and had the package done that next day.

Veteran's Day Package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5Y93A23_E

This was the first story I had done by myself and I think it was great. I had gone to a Veteran's Day event at the Johnson County Armory when many WW2 and Vietnam War veterans attended along with Senator Pat Roberts and State Rep. Kevin Yoder and others. I filmed a ton of B-Roll since thats about all I could get. A lot of it was just people talking or some large pans of the crowd. The ONW Band was there so I got some good shots of them and got plenty of sound bytes. I had filmed the event on a Wednesday and wrote the voiceover script and voiced over by next Monday.

Playground Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDQiWYpiow

Val and I went to a groundbreaking of a new adaptive park for special needs kids. The Kansas City Royals had finished their week of giving with this ceremony. A few former royals players were there like Jeff Montgomery (We got to interview him and it was so cool.) We had got the film and wrote the script that day and voiced over and and finished the story that next Monday. It was a lot of fun to go this ceremony and if had learned anything from it is to wear gloves when filming so your fingers don't get cold. #LifeLesson

A Special Christmas Story: Video soon to come.

There are a group of "Elves" who are planning on taking a girl with a brain tumor to the "North Pole". This will happen on December 22nd. Essentially they are going to take here from the downtown airport to the Johnson Country Airport. One of the hangers will be converted into Santa's workshop. The ONW sports teams will have to make empty christmas boxes to help complete the north pole.

Strengths

I don't like to talk myself up and say how good I am. It just seems mean and self-centered. All I could say is I think my strengths are editing and filming B-Roll shots.

Improvement

I could talk more about my areas of improvements more then my strengths because  realize what i could work on. I could work on getting more work done, like finishing packages a little quicker so i can get more stories out there. I also could work on taking stories and going out of school to record more footage for packages. Last quarter if you don't count the summer camp I had about six hours out of twenty. I feel like I need to take more stories we get outside of school.

What I have learned

With the only thing I've done outside of this class was making a package my sophomore year for my final I love this class. I've learned a lot like how to edit a proper news package and more importantly how to "get myself out there" to the world. I have learned how much easier it is with two people to go and film and have two minds think of a script and editing compared to one mind have to think of a script and try and get all the cool shots and edit in a creative way to keep people invested in my story.

I plan on coming back next year and my senior year and try and push out a story every two weeks in not every week. That would be about nine more stories if I had one every two weeks or eighteen if I had one every week. 

A Special Playground for some Special Kids

This video is about an adaptive playground being built over by CBAC on College and Lone Elm. A groundbreaking ceremony was held last Friday hosted by The Kansas City Royals Charity, Variety.

Veterans Day

An ONW Now story about a celebration at the Overland Park Armory for WW2 and Vietnam War Veterans.

Plagiarism

An ONW Now Story about what plagiarism is and how Olathe Northwest is stopping it.

Plagiarism Story

This is a story on plagiarism and how it can effect you in school and even after that in the workplace.

Olathe Band Festival

This is the B on ONW A to Z segment for ONW Now. Olathe Northwest, North, South, and East had a Band Festival On Monday October 5, 2015.

Brendan Dunwiddie Story

Brendan Dunwiddie moved from football to cross-country. He was sad to leave football but happy to join the cross-country team. He has hopes of being on the Varsity running team. Here is an ONW Now News Package I made.

Concussion Story

Concussions have been a problem for years in the football game and parents are taking a stand: Not letting their kids play. This is forming a gap in the amount of players coming to ONW in the coming years.  Here is an ONW Now news package I made.

Video Final

Our final for video class was to make a full on ONW Now show for our school. This process was a long one. First I had to come with a story, then go out and shoot B roll and interviews, after that edit it together and get a good news package, then add it to the ONW Now line up of packages and then record the show.

My news story was about Brooks Walker who was  a baseball player for ONW and what that is like compared to his time as a freshmen. I had to go out to some of his games and record some B roll of him hitting the ball or catching and going some outs. Then I set up a interview with him and asked him questions like his plan for college baseball.

After the interview and B roll was shot I went into Final Cut Pro and put all together. I Shot the Interview in front of our green screen so I put a white background up instead of the poorly lit green screen. I went and recorded some voice over and added some B roll over the interview and voice over and had my news package.

Along with a news packages we had Word of the Halls which is a segment where we asked a students questions about a certain theme. Ours was Disney the meed. We had questions like: Who is the first Disney princess? or What is Name of Nemo's Mom? After we had all the shots we had to find some sound effects that would be for correct or wrong answers and find a song to lay over the whole thing. It was really fun to edit because of all the answers that people gave.

After the News Package and Word of the Halls I put them in our server folder so we could upload them to a Tricaster and then play them for when we recorded the show. I was the operator  for the Tricaster and would set would come up next on the show. If the intro was coming up I would set it up so I could start it up on cue. I also started the recording of the show and ended it. This was a very fun project and I am excited for the next two years of doing this.

  

Animation Final

For animation our final was to make a video using special effects. Our group had five people In it. Erick Vidal, Saif Jasim, Joey Tangeman, Brandon Daniels, and me. I was the Cameraman, Saif was the  Director, Eric was an actor, Joey was the Animator, Brandon was the driver.

Frist we had to storyboard out our idea. Eric drew our storyboard and we then went to a location and filmed.

After filming was done we had went to editing. we slit up the parts. Someone worked on Erick walking, the explosions and then we put it all together in one video then added sound effects.

 We went to ism films for the explosions and missile firing sound effects. We went to youtube for the snapping sound effect.


  This project was a lot of fun and we had fun finding the sound effects. Hope you enjoy.

Troop 315 Campout

My Boy Scout Troop 315 went camping last week at Snow Creek. We went Snowboarding and Tubing. We had lots of fun.

Jessica Blom Interview

I interviewed Jessica Blom about how she plays the flute in ONW band.

Maya Tools

Hammer: When making the hammer I used the Cut Face tool where I cut the back face of the hammer to make the back prongs. Extrude to pull out the prongs and pull out the hammer head.

Ice Cream: When making the Ice cream and Cone I used Bump map tool to make the indents of the waffle cone. I also made it into a looping movie by turning the ice cream a few degrees then added a keyframe to the last keyframe. This made it spin in an endless loop. 

Cup: When making the Cup I used NURBS. I used the curve tool to cut out the cup into the shape of The Holy Grail. Then I used the revolve tool to take my cut of the cup and then expanded it in a 360 degree to make the full cup. Then I found a Holy Grail type of texture and added it to my cup.

Salt Shaker: When making my Salt and Pepper Shakers I used the Curve and Lofting along with the Extrude when making the cap.

Bouncing Spheres: When making the Tennis, Golf, and Bowling balls drop tests I used Keyframes, Graph Editor, and Squash and Stretch.

Chris Hwang Interview

I Interviewed Chris Hwang about what he got for christmas that he hasn't had in a long while. He was very excited about it.