Post-Production

Reflect on your groups creative process so far in your class blog. Name two big milestones that you have accomplished, and name two hurdles that you anticipate reaching soon. Please detail the ways that the digital tools we have been using in class contribute to your group’s creative process. 300 words.

 

Yesterday, our group met with Tom, a current Rutgers graduate student who lives with a spinal cord injury. Tom was an engineering major before his accident and was so inspired by the work  of the doctors who helped him recover, he decided to go to medical school.

1. One of the great things about working with Tom is that he was never dull. He spoke of his injury as if it was some sort of blessing- a closer step for him to help people. It is so inspiring to hear someone talk of the mundane, every day life that most of us take for granted- as something special that needs to be lived every single day. He has the most positive look out of anyone I’ve ever met. He was not reluctant to being filmed, and actually clearly articulated what he was going to say on camera! We feel so lucky to be able to work with him. 

2. Another milestone we’ve come across while interviewing Tom was that we were able to organize our final product better. In other words, we were able to see more clearly the vision that we have for this video we want to make. Now, we’re able to storyboard on our Google drive in order to parse out what we don’t need and footage that needs to be edited and fitted into the final project.

A problem that occurred while we were filming Tom was that we were so hesitant to film inside because it was a beautiful spring afternoon. We interviewed Tom outside and it grew quite windy. Although we could clearly hear what he was saying, it came up on the camera not so good. The problem that we ran into was the fact that we weren’t using a boom mic to pick up the sound correctly. What we plan to do is edit the audio of the clips before we put all the footage together. In class, we’ve discussed techniques for using Audacity on windows to remove background noise from the footage. 

Personal Thoughts on Creative Direction

Today, we decided which direction we want our final project to go in. Although the subject at hand is spinal cord injuries, which can seem sad, we have decided to set up a meeting with someone who suffers from a spinal cord injury. We want this video to be informational for those who do suffer from spinal cord injury as well as trying to raise awareness. The audience intended to see this video is those who have a spinal cord injury as well as family members of the injured. We intend to interview Rutgers students around College Avenue campus in New Brunswick asking them if they know anything about spinal cord injuries to reflect that not that many people know what it entails. I am guessing the connection that people make to spinal cord injuries is to Christopher Reeve, which is good because we are creating the video for the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Moving away from the interview of random students, we plan to have our interviewee Tom, who suffers from a spinal cord injury, talk about his illness, his daily life, and any suggestions he has to help with any daily activities for the injured. We want to make the tone of this project hopeful and informational.

First Post

My experience creating this blog was actually simple. I have had a wordpress.com account before so I was familiar with the platform. The instructions that the professor provided on setting up the blog were very clear from creating new pages, adding widgets, and creating posts. Sometimes, people in the class were getting confused because it was 1,000,000 degrees F in this room, so at times the confusion would rub off on me. Picking a theme was probably the hardest part for me. I picked a light hearted and colorful theme because I want the theme to reflect what this blog is all about- which is food! For now, my header is the title of the class. I plan on changing it when I think of a cooler name for the blog. I am looking forward to blogging about my experience with food and I hope others will enjoy it!

I took this picture myself when I was studying abroad in Italy I visited a small town in Tuscany and had the best raviolis of my life.

As they say in Italy, buon appetito! I borrowed this image from Google images to wish you all a happy dining experience! (url below)