2minutes2010, reflection

When we made our movie the first cut was very good i think, the changes we had to make from the ruff cut to the final cut are that we had to make our sentences more fluent and not st udder. Another change we had to make is we had some bad grammar such as "Tooth brushing" instead of "brushing your teeth". What helped us a lot is the comments left behind on our ruff cut. The Comments that were left were very constructive and very good advice on how to make our movie better that it already was.

Well we did have an expert that my mom was supposed to contact but we unfortunately didn't get the email back on time because he was travailing all over the world speaking and awaring people about global warming and other subjects like that like how to go green. After the final cut was due the email came in so we just contacted someone who interviewed David Suzuki and we had are interview like that. 3 important points that the original interviewer told us is that global warming is the source behind climate change. Global warming can not be stop ed. Global warming will one day cause great damage to the earth.We found our expert through my mom because she works will a lot of different people like that and she happened to know him personally. We didn't find the expert in time for our project because he was travailing at the time and didn't have time to send us an email back.

From our 2 minutes to make a difference project What I think our greatest success is that we put our message across to the viewers and gave them ways to be more green. The skills i think i will take away from this project is all the knowledge i took from this project on ways to make a difference on earth from child labor to going green. That's why i am super glad we did this project because it gave me a lot to think about and how easy my life is compared to some people on earth.

The Most Frustrating part about making our movie was probably the ways to make a difference and just getting all the editing done and uploaded on time. Are strategy we used to finish on time was to go over to Noelle's house every day after school just to get it all done.

I think that the 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to grade 8 students because this is a stage in our lives when we have to start to grow up and mature and start to think of others before our self's.

I will make a difference in the future by taking my time to volunteer over my summer break just to help out in our community.

Jex's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Reflection

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Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
In our videos we made a lot of changes. We notice that some grammar did not make any sense or hard to understand. So in our final version we fixed those things. Another thing is that people commented about spelling mistakes and some words in the video were hard to understand. We fixed that and people helped us make our video better.

If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful?
We were unsuccessful to find an expert. First of all If we were to find an expert here in Winnipeg that knows our topic its very hard. We also found experts in the internet. Most of them didn't have email. I emailed one expert but the expert didn't respond.

What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
My greatest success of this 2 minutes to make difference project was making the video and finishing it on time. I think that we did a good job in our video, we did everything that has to be in the video and we liked it as a group and myself. In the future the skills that I'm going to take are my writing skills in the script and making a difference by donating money and other necessities.

What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
When we were doing this project I got frustrated a lot. Sometimes lots of things were rushed. I also got frustrated by finding an expert it was really hard for us to find an expert at all because like I said before Winnipeg is a place that doesn't have experts for our topic and the expert that I emailed didn't respond. The last thing that I got frustrated at was making the video and this whole 2 minutes to make a difference thing. I didn't really like doing this kind of project at all. Because sometimes it takes time to do it, its very stressful at times and its not that fun even though we're making a difference that's the part the I only enjoyed.

Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
This whole 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to grade 8 because we have to know what kind of things that we need to change in our world. We can learn skills from it. However this is really not for grade 8's. I think that we're kind of young to do this type of project I think that this is high school work. But there are new skills that I learned. I learned that if you make a difference you will be a better person.

How will you make a difference in the future?
I will make difference in the future by helping people out more, volunteering in places that needs help, I also will use my skills that I learned during this process by using them in the future when its needed and keep donating stuff that needs it.

2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGbEONXSvsc






FINAL VERSION

- Youtube Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOrSAN0O7mA




Reflection :

I changed the video effect because the final version one grabs peoples attention more.
The student comments were helpful and I took a look at them all and it did make my movie better than it was before. Our group did not find an Expert because we did Racism and Racism doesn't really have experts but my group and I did look on the internet to see if we could get an expert but we couldn't..
The skills I learned while editing and making this movie are helpful and now I can use Windows Movie Maker if I ever need to make a movie again. While editing this movie I really got to understand Windows Movie Maker better than I did before.
By putting pictures and Audio of us speaking during the pictures in the movie was very difficult but then we helped each other and got it together.
We made this video to show people that they can put a stop to racism because it hurts and it also gets better sick .. I think its important to make a difference in grade 8 because were getting older and we are old enough to understand whats respectful or not.
If everyone stops being racist towards each other racism will stop ! It just takes one person to make a difference.