Katie Conleys Blog

This Semester In Video This semester we learned about Convergence Journalism. Within convergence journalism we learned how to compose a news story, feature story, and how to write a news story. We were taught how to create a thorough interview with twenty one interview questions. We learned a lot about how the camera itself works and hoe to recored, put in batteries, adjust white balance, and much more regarding the cameras. We learned how to set up the tripod by extending the legs and hoe to slide the plate on and off (which my group struggled with for a really long time). We also had to apply the six shot system and the rule of thirds to make our videos more visually appealing and interesting.During all of our projects we  had to use our five skills. I used leadership in order make sure everyone got everything done, we all used our technical skills to work the camera and edit the videos me and my team created. We used time management to get everything done, and we use communic...

My Story Animation Project In this project I learned how to compose a story and apply all of the skills I have learned over the course of the semester. I learned all of the skills in the video that were taught to me by Mr.Olson, and I got a lot of help from my friends. I picked this project because I put a lot of time into it. I spent many power 50's and many hours after school to create it. I also think its one of my most appealing project that I have done. I think my greatest strength is creativity, I used had to think really hard about this though because I was struggling to come up with an idea. I think my weakness is the puppet pin tool because it took me so many tries to get it right. I understand it more thoroughly than I did before and I know how to set key frames with the puppet pin tool now. If I could change something then I would change the part where transports from area to another really fast. Overall I liked this project and it was really fun to do. Wal...