Daily Activities, Day 10 (10:52pm)

 Yesterday I stayed up till two in the morning, so my hours from yesterday transferred over to today. From midnight till two in the morning, I was listening to songs for the athletic slideshow.  I'm rather frustrated that I still have not found the perfect song yet! I have a very strange process to picking a song that I explain to my vlog. For the athletic slideshow, I like to pick a song that is upbeat and has a very strong rhythm to it so that I can line the music up with the transition of the pictures and video. Unfortunately, during the daylight hours, I had to deal with some personal errands. I did not do anymore work during the day, but I got a total of two hours in today.
Today's vlog: https://youtu.be/QrnEo85nL8c

Daily Activities, Day 9 (11:57pm)

It's almost midnight after a long day, but I can't stop! I am in the zone right now! At one o'clock today Alex came in to the tech lab at Proctor to view the senior slideshow, and she gave it a thumbs up! This means I am very close to being finished with this project I just need to add in the opening and closing credits, and possibly add in a few more photos since I have plenty of music left for the slideshow. Next, I went through some more action shots. I can now say with full confidence that every team has action shots in the athletic slideshow! Now all that' slept to do is add some video footage of varsity teams, and select a song to use. I will further describe this process in a bonus vlog that I was going to put out tonight, but it's late right now. Also Jim ordered a GoPro with a chest harness for my gymnastics project! Things are starting to move in the right direction and a lot of big projects are almost done. Even better, I only ran into one technical difficulty today (I ran out of some thing called Ram on my computer, and because of it I couldn't run Final Cut Pro.). However,  thanks to Anna, and the tech office, I was able to get this problem solved quickly. When I left campus, I got home and uploaded a vlog, and continued to work on the slideshow.

Vlog: https://youtu.be/PpqikaS0a0E

This has probably been my most productive day yet!

Daily Activities, Day 8 (11:09pm)

Today's activities were cut short by a power outage at my house. So unfortunately the vlog that I planned didn't work out due to this. Before the power went out I sent multiple emails to answer questions regarding Go Pros and finding out the date of the athletic assembly (Friday the 22nd). Tomorrow I plan to go to school to download video footage for the slideshow, have Alex view the senior slideshow, and edit through the photos it took last week. It will be a busy day to say the least!

Daily Activities, Day 7 (9:13pm)

Today was another great day of putting action shots in to the slide show. I still need to look through and edit the pictures I took on Friday and Saturday. I spoke with my coach the other day about when I can do some filming for my gymnastics video project; It would be great to get started on that project. Unfortunately there is no vlog today (and I'm sorry I didn't post one on Friday) I have big plans for my vlog tomorrow. The theme I'm planning on doing is commonly asked questions. Stay tuned...

Weekly Reflection, Week One

This first week of Senior Project was not what I expected in my proposal. First of all, working on three different projects has been very time consuming, and each day I have a new focus and a different goal, simply because my three video are so widely unlike each other. My first day was focused on getting three pictures of each senior into the senior slideshow. After that first day, my focus shifted entirely on the athletic slideshow. My days were busily spent looking through action shots, and choosing my top three or four favorites per team. This was not as easy as it has been in the past terms because I'm working on my laptop; I had to download the program "Final Cut Pro" before I could start on this project.
My biggest challenge was on Thursday, when I ran into technical difficulties trying to connect to the server, and was unable to find a certain sound effect. I was able to overcome these problems thanks to my mentor Anna, my sponsor Brenda, and my teacher Jim. There is another person who I forgot to thank this week. Adam Jones, came in to my journalism class one day and my class about vlogs. This idea inspired me to do my own video blog as a part of my senior project. Adam, thanks for the idea! Doing these vlogs have helped me, not only to visually share what I'm doing with my audience, but also helping me focus on what to write for my blogs.
The one thing I forgot to mention in my daily blogs about my vlog is that I do not create  these using Final Cut Pro (the program I use for my three main projects). For my vlog, I use iMovie, which is much simpler program where I film what I'm saying on my iPad, that way I can go through my footage very quickly and get it up on YouTube as soon as possible.
I have tremendously enjoyed doing these blogs as well as the three other projects I'm working on. These skills that I have been working on with my photography and videography will definitely benefit me, especially in college where I plan to continue learning about sports photography, and other media skills.

Daily Activities, Day(s) 5&6 12:58

 Oops, I just realized I never posted a blog for Friday. I was so busy on Friday I spent the whole day with Brenda preparing for the tailgate for the boys varsity lacrosse game, and the afternoon was devoted to finding action shots for the athletic side show. In the evening, I took action shots of the boys JV baseball and the boys varsity lacrosse games. Congrats to the lacrosse team on their win over Tilton! Overall it was a very productive day one of my best so far!

 On Saturday I spent one hour taking action shots of the girls varsity lacrosse game.  Congratulations girls on your win!  I have not gone through the photos yet or edited them that will probably happen either Monday or Tuesday.

Daily Activities, Day 4 (11:56)

You know those days where nothing seems to work no matter what you try? Today was one of those days, there were many technical difficulties. I got to work on the athletic slideshow, and I was going to search through more action shots. Unfortunately, I could not connect to the server, which is where my action shots are accessible to the school. After working for three hours and not making any strong progress, I finally took a step back away from the computer, away from the screen, and went outside to enjoy the beautiful sunny weather. Today was not productive, and rather frustrating because I did not accomplish the tasks I had planned. Sometimes, all you can do just take a step back, regather your thoughts, and come back with a better mind set tomorrow.  Tomorrow my goal is to solve these technical difficulties!

Vlog Day 4: https://youtu.be/GZNpbVvJdZs