Movies Lecture

I really enjoyed our movie lecture because of my interest in broadcast journalism and creating and editing video. Before our lecture I never really thought about who invented the first video camera. I really liked how Mr.Miller didn't just say. William Dickinson invented a camera that could shoot movie and sound". Instead of stopping there he went on to explain that Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the first camera that could shoot sound , Dickinson worked for Edison, and he also explained how the camera takes a bunch of pictures and then the images are clicked through very quickly to give the pictures a look that makes them look like one continuous movie. I never really thought about the social experience you get when going to the movies but after our lecture I realized that the movies is a cool place where everybody is fine hanging out.

TV News Terminology

I really enjoyed learning about all the t.v terminology because of my interest in broadcast journalism. Everyday of Journalism I would walk in and see the Broadcast Journalism story board and some of the stories would say b-roll and I had had no idea what that was supposed to mean. Whenever I would make and edit entertainment movies on iMovie I didn't have to know those terms, but for broadcast journalism you need to be able to keep your audience entertained while informing them of important information through interesting visuals. With the new terminology I have on the t.v news terminology I'll be able to better understand the way editors and anchors think. I'll also be able to use this new terminology to determine if something is prerecorded as a package from advertisers , like a VNR, or if it is a package that the channel created solely for the purpose of informing, not persuading.

Font Fashion Show

My digital design class has the Font Fashion Show this Thursday. Basically what it is is that each person in our class chooses a font, no two fonts the same, and then they have to dress up as their font would and walk around the room to music while everybody's watching them. The walk, costume, and music have to express your font, not the name. My font is Happy Days from fonts101.com. Since the font has a 50's diner style I'm dressing up in a poodle skirt costume I had from an old Halloween. My walk has some 50's dance moves in it and I'm walking to the song "Rock Around the Clock" sung by Bill Haley. The song I'm walking to is fun and old fashioned just like the font looks. While everyone is doing their walk around the room the judges will be deciding on 1st,2nd and 3rd place. Although I'm sure everyone's nervous I think we're all looking forward to it as well because it's our chance to get to know each other.