My Wish For You::
Watch the video
This is my final project for the FTV (film/TV) 86 class which I took awhile ago at school. The music is from the movie Her Majesty and is written by William Ross and the poem is called My Wish For You.
Vloggercon!
picture from vloggercon.comI loved Vloggercon. I haven't really processed the onslaught of information that I got during the two days. I put some notes up on my blog, some are still just drafts (and haven't been posted) since they wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to others reading them. I'll make them readable and then publish them (hopefully, I can remember what I meant when I wrote the notes...).
I met some really cool people at Vloggercon and found out about a WHOLE lot of cool stuff. And I will definitely be making this blog a vlog (videoblog) as well (soon)!
FCP/iMovie tricks session
normal problems
imovieplugins.com
look for free effects if I want effects/filters for imovie
geethree.com
packages you can purchase... can maybe find free downloads.
there are some useful effects that you can use
stupendous-software.com- also have some free downloads/ demo versions
gimp, cross platform. poor man's photoshop. look it up, get it
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ <--- this maybe
want to use as many senses as possible in your video
push imovie to the limits
zadi diaz--
if you want to cut/edit clips to the beat then you can just listen to the music and click M (for marker) when you hear the beat.
lynda.com - get resources
questions:
freevlog.org - tuturials for exported/compression rates
josh leo said he would answer questions (IM or email) and zadi said she would answer questions too
We the People::
The Preamble::
We the People [of the United States], in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Thank you, Mr. LaPlante, for engraining this into my mind. : )
I'm reading about the late 40's and 50's (for an Honors history seminar I'm taking this quarter) and I was reading about the fifth amendment on Wikipedia since it was mentioned numerous times in the first reading, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?, which is transcripts of the hearings by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee on Americans (many actors from Hollywood) who were suspected of being communists. And then I went to the Wikipedia page about
the US Constitution and found the Preamble and sang right along with it (my social studies teacher, Mr. LaPlante, replayed over and over again this song of the Preamble)!
I'm writing more about my readings for this history seminar if you want to
see.
California Public Transportation SUCKS
I hate to use such a stupid word like sucks but it's the only thing that fits. I want to get from point A to point B. They are 3 miles apart if you go the most direct route and supposedly it would take 7 minutes by car (says MapQuest). And it takes me almost 2 hours using public transportation!! And I have to go totally out of the way, I never go on the 3 mile route that MapQuest says to go by car. I walk to a Line A Marguerite stop around 1/2 mile away, I think. Wait for the bus if I miss it because I have to walk. Spend almost a half hour on the bus. Get off at the Palo Alto Transit Center. Wait probably 20 minutes for the 35 bus. Get on the 35 (make sure it's going in the right direction) and stay on the bus for around 30 minutes. Fortunately, the bus would get off RIGHT in front of my point B destination.. however, I would probably get to my destination late considering that I would most definitely miss at least one of those buses.
Or, I could just walk the 3 miles, which would take me less time.
However, fortunately, my mom called around and found me a ride.
The three major things that were blocking me from getting from point A to point B easily are::
-I don't have my license yet (HOPEFULLY I WILL ON JUNE 13TH).
-the friend who I'm seeing at point A can't legally drive me even though she has her license.
-Public transportation SUCKS.
-oh and also, neither of my parents can drive me.. : )
It just goes to show that we, the people who vote (me excluded because I can't vote yet) and the people who decide the laws, are destroying the world. Why you ask? Because propositions get put on ballots to get more money for public transportation. Well, either public transportation doesn't get the money because the people who decide/make the laws/have the money whatever don't put stuff on ballots to get more money for public transportation or the people who can vote either don't vote at all or vote no for the propositions/laws that get the money to improve public transportation. Then public transporation sucks (sucks meaning you can't get anywhere you want without walking 5 miles and spending your whole day trying to GET wherever you want to get) so no one wants to use it and everyone has multiple cars per household and drives everywhere. And then everyone has cars so there's no use for public transportation so the people who can vote vote no on these propositions that would give money to improve public transportation because they don't use it!
[umm I'm tired, it's 11:30, I don't think I'm making much sense. I'm rambling.]
