Reflection: DVD Tutorial

This past week, we learned how to put together a DVD using DVD Studio Pro, putting in the elements of menus, background pictures, etc., just like how you see on a real DVD. It was all relatively simple to piece together. You can use different pictures for a background, and add in boxes for special features, chapter selections, and playing the full movie. Basically whatever you want or whatever you would see on a DVD menu and link it to video that you would import in.

Jay gave us a tutorial so we could learn to do it for ourselves. Being that it was the last day of classes before break, not many of us were there, and it was a little hard to focus but I got it done LOL It was really simple, and now I can say I know a bit about how to make my own DVD, if ever the opportunity arises...Maybe. Who knows where this communication degree will take me???

PEACE.

Reflection: Twitter Event

Last week, Dr. Neil Alperstein, a professor in the Communication Department, discussed "Imaginary Social Relationships Regarding Twitter." He spoke about 3 paradoxes. Place, meaning we can be in more than one place at the same time. Imagination--we have and use our imagination but society tells us not to. And Togetherness. We can be together and alone at the same time. Place affects our use of Twitter because we can think about where we would rather be, instead of where we are. Our imagination runs wild as we have fantasies about "relationships" with celebrities that feel real. Togetherness comes into play with Twitter because we can be tweeting hundreds of people, feeling like a part of a huge social circle, but really be at home, alone in our rooms.

II was intrigued by the lecture. I am a faithful Tweeter myself (I have TWO accounts lol). And I follow a bunch of celebrities including Wale, Drake, and Rihanna. I remember one time a few weeks ago, I tweeted Wale, and he actually responded! I went insane! lol Twitter makes you feel closer to the celebrities that you already love! Social networking in general is like that. You can have "relationships" with people you never even met.

PEACE.

Week 10 Reflection: Teach Me How To Dougie

Hahahahahaha! This week was funny! Our group, Chuck, Meghan, Lana, Brian, and I decided to film a video for "Teach Me How To Dougie" by rap group Cali Swag District! May I just say that our footage was hilarious and amazing haha! We filmed some scenes in the studio, then took the shoot outside, hitting the Gardens Volleyball Pit, the huge staircase by Dorothy Day, the N. Charles St. bridge, the Quad, and even the soccer field! We pulled in some friends that happened to be walking around during the shoot and asked to show us their dougie lol while we played the song through some speakers Brian brought.

Piecing the video together was hard at first. We had trouble actually logging and capturing, but with a little help from Jay, we figured out the problem. When we finally got the footage together, it came along slowly but surely, piecing together people dougieing (sp??? lol) with my rapping (I can't stay away from the limelight haha). We still have a bit of work to do, but it's looking good so far.

PEACE.

Week 9: The Music Video

Woww....so this week's class was too much fun! This week, Jay gave us the music video assignment, so he showed us quickly how to put one together. Meghan suggested "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, and it was HILARIOUS! I, Meghan, and Kathleen served as back up dancers while Jay was MC Hammer, since most of us only knew the chorus haha. Other members of the class went out and got footage around Loyola for the video, and Jay pieced it together perfectly! It was so funny!

So now it's our turn. We're putting together music videos in our groups. Brian, Lana, and I are still working together, thinking about "Run This Town," as our song. If we do that, I already have some ideas. I want it to be a school spirit type of thing, doing different shots of our school basically running Baltimore. I'm sure whatever we do, it will come out great! So I'm excited! Wiith all of the different things that we have learned in class, I'm expecting us to come up with an amazing music video!

PEACE.