The Magic of Movies

My three goals for the editing unit are 1. improving my editing skills. 2. learning how to use different video editing softwares. 3. learn more about the film editor position and what it takes. I chose these 3 goals for this unit because I find them adaptable, and something I can achieve in this segment of the film/video course. 

 Three key points that I noticed and learned in the video, are resumes for high school students can be short, single paged, and straight to the point. Include the school you are attending, GPA is optional (if your grades are good.) Volunteer experiences, sports, clubs and other extracurricular activities you participate in. You can still add informal jobs that you have done for others. Think of rewards you have received in and out of school, showing your accomplishments are important.

Set Safety/Etiquette: I learned multiple things it taught me so much about safety is #1, there are a lot of potential dangers. I learned if it looks unsafe, tell your head of department. It's important to secure everything. In terms of etiquette, be polite, your superior is to be referred to as "sir", be humble, accept compliments. Career readiness: Lateness is bad, early arrival is more work for you, if you're early you're on time, if you're on time you're late, if you're late you're fired. 80% of success is being on time. Improve your skill set, learn and perfect your mistakes, practice makes perfect. Digital Citizenship: The norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology, such as no trolling or insulting comments or content. Copyright: Copyright is a legal right that gives the creator of an original work, the exclusive rights to determine how it's used.  This is the summary and gist of the basic and important things tha...

Fair use in my definition is, contents that are acceptable only if used for the right purpose. You must give credit to the content creator, you must also add new meaning to the original work to make it original. Rework it use it in a different way as the video says. Use the content for non-profit purposes. The video educated me on how I will use certain content in this class. I will check who owns it, ask for permission if needed, use given content responsibly, give credit to whoever made the product. Simply being respectful and aware on how to use content is pretty much fair use. 

Copyright is the right to copy. It's an intellectual's property. A lot of the times if you want to use someone else's music you need a license agreement.  The owners are the only ones with access to reproduce the product. There are many terms you need to agree to when reading a license agreement. Some are very specific.  Don't use copyright property otherwise you can receive copyright strikes. Not only is it musical but copyrights also literary. 

The internet can really make people act different online than in person. That is called the online disinhibition effect. Anonymity is the first principle of why we may act different online. People on the internet don't know who we are, they don't know what we're like they know nothing about us. Being anonymous you can be whoever you want to be. We're less afraid about real life consequences.  The second principle is lag time. There is often a delay when we post something and a delay in getting a response. Such time given can lead to impulsive thoughts and responses. At the same time this give us time to think about how we respond to something or someone.  The third principle is non-verbal social cues. Since we cannot see each other when we text you can only do your best to assume. Due to the lack of emotion you can express through a text, the other person can get the wrong message.

I think 13 is the perfect age for kids to start exploring social media. Kids finally start seeing how the real world online is like. 13 is an age and time where kids really start finding themselves, exploring their likes and dislikes, discovering new things, knowing the unknown. Social media exposes all kinds of content to the blind eye, it teaches good and bad things, young teens are going to have to know how that's like eventually. Social media has lots of potential risks being exposed to young teens, I'd say there are more cons than pros.  The potential risks are, location, safety, identity theft, access to personal information (such as birthday and name), cyberbullying, and online predators.  There are so many disadvantages the list goes on. I feel neutral when it comes to social media because as bad as it sounds there are many positive movements social media has created, it's united so many communities, brought people together from different backgrounds, it connects pe...

To me career readiness skills are respect, responsibility, and critical thinking. All these skills are useful in no matter what career you pursue. Respect is important, it's important you respect to your peers, showing such respect will get you places time to time, you just have to show it. Responsibility is another important thing, you need to be on top and on track with your given responsibilities, there is no time to lose when it comes to that, overall being a responsible person will get you more chances of success than failure. Critical thinking is crucial, there is so much skills being brought to the table when you know how to think critically. For example, communication, open mindedness, problem solving, and creativity. Knowing how to be a critical thinker helps you be a better person, a better employee, a better person to work with. The more you understand how to do such things, the better of a chance I'd say you have a chance at a good career. 

I learned multiple rules of safety. The rules consisted of hazards, sharp objects, fragile objects, be careful with the set pieces. It's important to know these rules because you must always be safe and away from harm/danger.  There are definitely rules that will be difficult to follow, which is slipping. You can be so into the zone of things and forget to focus on the slippery hazards. The only thing I'm concerned and worried about is learning how to use certain equipment properly and how to take care of it and prevent it from damaging or harming anyone, including myself. 

 The A-Z film set etiquette guide talks about the rules and steps to having a good film set etiquette. The prompts being brought up in the guide is you should alway follow up, ask questions, and always be respectful. When you're busy you should be quick and brief. There are a few code words you need to know while on set, it's important to aware your team. "Hot points!" is one of the codes commonly used when something long, sharp, and pointy is being carried around set, around corners or doorways. Careful with your words such as cussing, or offensive inappropriate jokes. On your first day of shoot you should make a friendly introduction to who you are, only if the situation permits.  Don't just stand around and do nothing. There is always something to do on set to keep you busy. Just standing there will make you look sloppy, and lazy. Learn the film/set lingo it's important to know and learn it in order to have quick and easy communication with your crew. In co...

Safety is important because it prevents injuries, deaths, safety quite literally saves your life and other people's lives. According to Google 100,000 accidents are to occur annually and kill people, morally it's important to prevent injury or illness in the workplace. In film different sets have different rules, but all rules need to be taken into serious consideration.  Injuries should rarely happen, it's important the crew of the set knows what to do in case of an emergency, that is why safety training exists. Safety training proves how important safety is.  You can never work in a place without safety precautions. The dangers are always there and it's important we're careful and cautious.  There are various ways and rules to safety. Such as planning a safety protocol, planning is a crucial way to executing various ideas, analysing risks for safety measures beforehand is important to make sure the actors are safely able to work under that environment.  Secondly i...

Vertical video is a bad idea because you have limited space to view. All films and movies are horizontal view for a reason.   They're a terrible way to capture a good scene limited space means limited to create.  Most social media apps are obsessed with vertical videos the younger generation find them more immersive, more content creators are switching from horizontal to vertical.

My current goals for this class are  1.Maintain a C or above, 2.Improve film editing learn how to use different softwares/programs, and  3. Learn more about different directors and what their ideas were to create an iconic film.  Overall my goals are to learn and improve and I hope during the months to come I can see the change and improvement in my skills in film editing and film in general. I've set these realistic goals and I'm hoping by the time I come back to this I've gained more knowledge about film.

Movies are magical because they capture someones ideas, creativity, and emotions all in one. Viewers can see the hard work put into the film into the story and characters. All of these words describe the magic within a movie.  Creating a movie the character is an important part because they tell the story, the audience will want to connect with the character and understand what they're feeling, if a character lacks emotion, backstory, there is less depth to the movie.  So much effort is important to make a movie magical. Movies are special to me because they tell a story most stories will have similarities but at least a few differences that make them special. What also makes a movie is special to me is the fact the ideas and thought into particular scenes can be so amazing coming out, well done and delivered.  There will be sloppy and low effort movies out there but even the bad movies have at least something that makes it special, might even make you laugh because of ho...