Thursday, May 21, 2009

Post #9 - Final Cut Express

Hours: 9am to 4pm
7 hours
On this Wednesday, we had decided to try and string together our film. We believed we had enough footage and saw this as a perfect chance to learn how to use Final Cut Pro, but we soon found out we didn't even have Final Cut Pro. What we actually had was Final Cut Express, a much smaller and limited version of Final Cut. This was fine with us though. After hooking up the camera's we started uploading the clips to the computer. We soon found out that uploading all the tapes was going to take all day. So...we waited. During that time Raymond and I tried to plan how we would put the film together. We got to the second scene and got distracted. We still haven't made anymore progress on that. After that, we were still waiting for the clips to upload. We decided to leave and continue to upload the clips throughout the week.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Post #8 - Our Day With Gina

Hours: 9am - 4pm
7 hours
On our next WLE Wednesday we traveled around to multiple WLE's with Gina. She was checking on her advisee's WLE (part of the WLE requirement is our advisor seeing us performing our WLE). As the day started Raymond and I met Gina at the school. We promptly got into her orange Element and left to go meet Ati and Brittany at their WLE, but before we could get there we had to stop at Gina's house. Gina's cat was very nice. Too nice. Anyways, as we left her house, grabbed a ladder, and finally went to Ati and Brittany's WLE. Their WLE took place within a housing project and they helped with processing maitenence requests. We got some shots with them and a short interview with Ati before we moved onto the next WLE. I believe the next place we visited was Isis' and Jessica's WLE at the SPCA. When we tried to enter the main entrance to the building we were turned away. IT was closed for the day and we didn't know what to do. As we walked outside of the parking lot we saw Isis. She was taking some children to a puppy socialization camp, as she later put it. She couldn't stop to talk to us so we didn't know what to do. Gina called Jessica and after a few minutes of confusion, Jessica came to get us. She was on the other side of the building. After we had met al lthe animals within Jessica's work space, including Bear the Dog, we proceeded to interview Jessica on her WLE. After that Gina got to hold the Guinea Pig, and we discussed stories of Guinea Pig's biting fingers. We then got Gina, while still holding the animals, to give us a brief intro into what a WLE was. We planned to use this footage as a good opener. After this we left and tried to go to Jahlil and Ronnie's WLE, but when we got there we found they were not present. Then we went back to the school. Day over.