Class Reflection

I really liked the concept of the class, but I think that it tried to cram too many into one. It's makes sense because it's an introductory course but I think that some things were given more time than others. The lectures weren't that great. I'm not sure if it was the professors or the material, but those never really caught my interest. I also think that it would have been better to teach some of materials in the lab first before we got to the lecture, because when you teach it in the lab first you get a bit more hands on experience with it and it provides a context later in the lecture so it'll be able for some people to understand better. I could be wrong though, but that definitely applies to me. I prefer to do hands on things first, and I also need to be told something more than once to really grasp it.

The Chinatown Project:

For this project I got to work with Natalie Gergich, we decided to do a profile on Chinatown. We managed to get a lot of good shots of the neighborhood. We also ended up interviewing my boss, Matt Wang, and he talked about the people, the neighborhood and his opinions about what was going on in the community.

This was definitely a complicated project to complete. Not having a good sense of how to use Final Cut was a problem, but with one or two Youtube tutorials we were able to learn the basics and cut up a video together using footage from the Profile made through iMovie. There isn't any audio for the shorter version because we just couldn't figure out how to make it work. Another problem was time constraints, both me and Natalie's schedules were out of sync most of the time. If we had a little more time or a longer tutorial we probably would have been able to figure it out.

Chinatown Profile

Chinatown Trailer