Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Qtr 1 Exam Review

1. Websites in which users can post information of the personal nature.
-A social network or personal page (myspace, Facebook etc.)
2. What button do you click on to add music to your video?
-It is the Music note button 
3. Persons who prey on others for their own personal gain, either financially or sexually.
-They are called Predators
4. What button do you click on to add a transition to your video?
-You click on the transitions button
5. To avoid committing plagiarism, you should....(do what?)
- You give credit to all your sources by citing your information
6. The gradual movement from one image to another.
-The gradual movement from one image to another would be a transition
7. Who should you tell if you are a victim of cyber bullying
-A teacher, adult, or a parent or guardian as soon as possible
8. The stage of the Design Cycle where we identify the problem and how it can be solved.
-Investigation
9. Opening any and all email you receive is safe, because your internet provider has protection installed. (True or False)
-False, because the email provider does not provide any protection agains viruses or malware  
10. What button do you click on to add a voice over to your video?
-The microphone button
11. How do you make sure that the background music is lower than your voice over?
-You use the ducking button
12. To write entries in, add material to, or maintain an ongoing narrative.
-Blogging 
13. Where is a URL located on a website screen?
-Its located at the address bar on the top
14. If someone is harassing you online, you should immediately report it to the website moderator, your ISP, and /or your parents. (True or False)
-True, because they will know how to deal with the problem efficiently
15. A type of pan and scan effect used in video production from still imagery.
-The Ken Burns effect 
16. The stage of the Design Cycle where we review what we have created and state how it can be improved and determine if it is useful
-Evaluate 
17. Added to the end of a video or presentation to list the cast and crew involved in the production.
-The Credits 
18. Added to the beginning of a movie or presentation to inform viewers of the name and purpose of the film.
-The title 
19. What is the main purpose of the Story Board in the creation of your video?
-To help you plan, design and sequence your iMovie
20. MYP = 
-Middle Years Program
21. A video editing software that allows users to create and edit home movies.
-Its called iMovie
22. The legal right to print, publish, perform, or use any literary or musical material by its creator.
-copyright 
23. The repeated use of electronic communications to harass or frighten someone.
-Cyber Bulling (stalking) 
24. What button do you click on to add title and end credits to your video?
-The "T" button 
25. What are the five steps of the MYP Design Cycle in order?
-Investigate, Design, Plan, Create, Evaluate
26. The stage of the Design Cycle where we come up with a strategy on how we are going to solve the problem.
-Plan
27. The stage of the Design Cycle where we begin to develop various product designs that will solve our problem
-Design
28. The stage of the Design Cycle where we make the product.
-Create 

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Personal Digital Story - Planning

To create my digital story board I chose ten pictures and created an ending and beginning slide. This story board is over all my life and what it encompasses. The beginning slide will introduce a little of my self and what I am presenting. The second slide will show a glimpse of who I have become. The next six sides are what you can call the body of my story board. They show me from birth and of memorable moments as I progressed in life. The ninth and tenth slide will be a collage of friends and people who form my life the eleventh slide will be of people who made an important influence of my life and the twelfth slide will close my story board with "The End". By already having my pictures digitalized and my design ready I will be able to effectively finish my story board in no time. This way I will have plenty of extra time in case I run into any problems I will be able to make last minute changes. Some changes that I made were with my transitions I wanted transitions that made the next slide pop out to really captivate the people looking at my board so I had to find the right transitions for the right pictures while making the ken burns effect work with the pictures flow. The song i am looking for will be one that has a slow rhythm to fit the mood of my story board but also not to smooth that it makes my audience fall asleep.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Personal Digital Story - Design

Initially I had three designs that I later modified over the course of several days to where I now have the final design for my finished product. The first design was to do a story of who I am but I ran into the problem of not knowing what to put as pictures and it didn't cover the required time needed. The second design was going to be about my chilled hood but I didn't like the pictures and I didn't like the ones that I had so that conflicted with what I wanted for my design. The third design which is the one I choose was an over all view of my entire life. It encompasses my childhood till the person I am today and who have been the influential people in my life. Not only that but it gives a brief view of who I would like to become as I progress through out my life. The only problem I ran into was with what pictures I was going to use but the timing was good and I liked what I was going to share in my digital story.  I also liked this design over the rest because it gives a greater understanding of who my persona is.

Friday, October 1, 2010

DGA Personal Digital Story - Investigation

While in the process of creating my digital story I faced some problems that were significant to my creation of the story board. I faced the problem where I had no idea what part of my life I was going to share to my audience, but I decided I would share my life in general. A problem that I later faced was finding the right pictures to go along with my iMovie. Im a really reserver person especially when it comes to pictures so this was something that took a lot of courage for me to do. When creating my iMovie I first chose the most significant events in my life and some of the most significant people to be part of my digital story. Then I obtained the pictures that went along with those events. For example I choose to add the moments in my life when I went to Niagra Falls, Queretaro and San Miguel De Ayende, therefor I added pictures when I when to these places. Some pictures I already had them digitalized and other i had to scan and later crop and fix them. I feel that the information I learned for iMovie which Mrs. Hernadez taught us was very relevant because I was able to learn all the basics so I could  accomplish my goal of creating the digital story.