The internet opens up a whole new world when it come to the way we consume media. Now people can instantly share their opinions on what they are watching and have multiple ways to watch it. Instead of having to rely on your friend’s opinions of a movie or a television show you can go on Twitter, Facebook, IMDB or many other sites that people can instantly give their feedback to. People have even more power than that and can even take movies and write their own plot behind them, in essence creating their own spin offs. As talked about in the article fan fiction is a huge part of the online world when it comes to movies. Ever since the days of Napster, the media industry has been losing its power to the consumers and the trend doesn’t seem like it will be changing any time soon. Some authors don’t like fan fiction and believe it is copyright infringement, other see it as extra publicity. Some authors don’t like it but are too afraid of the backlash to do anything about it.

This is just one example of how much power the internet has given the consumers. One example in the reading that shows that shows how the content owners are trying to regain some of their power is one of George Lucas. He holds his own festival for his fans to come in and share their created content about star wars. George Lucas then picks the winners from what he feels is the best content. In doing this he can draw the line on where he feels the fans should be taking the story. In the end there will always be a struggle for power between the creators of content and the consumer and never has the winner of that battle been so blurred since the internet was introduced.

Milestones

So far our group has made some great progress on finishing our project. I would say that two big milestones that we have accomplished would be, that we finished our script/storyboard and the other milestone would be that we have basically finished filming. We have one more scene to shoot and as long as the video we have already shot looks good then we are pretty much done with that aspect of the project. We also still have to make our screencast and do our voiceover work as well. I would say two big hurdles we may encounter would be, trying to make everyone’s writing of the paper come together into one flowing cohesive paper, and I would also say that editing the video to make all of our shots look professionally done might also be somewhat of a challenge.

With all of this being said I don’t see us having much trouble getting by these hurdles because our team is very talented and we work well together. A couple people in our team have expressed how good they are with editing using audacity and other programs that we have learned in class. We can easily use the screencast tool that we were shown in class to add another element to our video that will help us further describe the mock interview process. We can then use the video editing software to drowned out the real sound and insert our voice overs. When filming we also used the filming techniques we were taught by filming the same scene from multiple angles. This will give us some options when editing as far as choosing the best footage for a certain scene. This will also make our video seem more professional and help the viewer more easily understand the point we are trying to get across. With our teamwork, the tools we were given in class, and the techniques we were taught there is no doubt in my mind we will have a great project.

Adding unlicensed media to our projects

Song

Video

Picture

 

So far my group has made some considerable progress on our final project. We have finished our story board, and wrote our script, now we just need to put it into action. Using the Creative Commons Search Engine I found a video, a picture, and a song that I think we can implement into our project. The video I found shows a time lapse of a busy city street which I believe we can utilize for our opening scene. I think we can show something like this with a voiceover explaining why career services is needed. The picture I found shows an official looking email that we can copy and use in our video. In our script we have a student that receives an email for an interview for a really good job he had applied for. We can copy the picture of the email that I found and use it as a guideline of how an official email should look. We can than create an email offering this student an interview and have him open it up so it looks like he really received it. The song I found I believe would be perfect to play in the background as our screencast is being played. Screencasts are usually pretty boring so adding some music in the background can help spice it up and make it a good scene. What our screencast is showing is the student going to the mock interview section of the career knight site and trying it out. Utilizing our script and some of this added media I am sure our group will continue its great work and come up with a great final product. We have all shown to have some value to the group and have all worked well together thus far.

 

Pre Storyboard

 

After meeting my group I have full confidence that we will put together a great video for this project. When we met in class we started discussing some ideas of where we were going to go with this project. After looking at the career services brochure we thought that the mock interview would be a good idea which I agreed with because their will not be much camera movement needed for that. We tossed around a couple ideas about what to do for the mock interview and came up with the idea of showing a student who did not attend the mock interview and one that did. We would then show how much the mock interview would help and improve the students’ performance. After speaking with the teacher we had realized that this is not the best way to go so it’s back to the drawing board. I believe we should show a student who is applying for an internship but is really nervous about interviews and doesn’t know what to expect. After doing some mock interviews the student realizes that it’s not that hard and not that scary and nails the interview and gets a good internship. I believe this will be easy to shoot and will really get the point across about the benefits of career services.