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Animal Crulety Reflection post

April 23, 2007

What I’ve learned about my topic.

  I have learned so much about this topic that I don’t know where to begin. I guess I’ll start at the beginning. The first thing I learned about this project is that animal cruelty and abuse happens to all types of animals weather it’s dogs, cats, snakes, cows, chickens the list goes on and on. Another thing I have learned is how you can stop the cruelty or at least help prevent it. Also I learned some rights and laws on animal cruelty. For example you will get fined if you abuse animals. Those are some of the many things that I learned while doing this International Teen Life video.

What I have learned about collaborating locally and nationally.

 I have learned many things about collaborating locally and nationally as a group. One of those many things have been to accept that we all have different ascents and to work with other peoples ideas. Another thing would be to communicate well, the ones locally are easy to communicate but with the ones nationally it is difficult because of the time difference and the distance. I like collaborating with kids around the globe because you get to experience what life is like there, how thing are different, differences in schools, and other things such as religion and violence. Its really neat to meet people that are so different then you are because then you could and probably will be amazed about some of the events that they had to go through there. And the amazing part is that we got to experience this all in middle school! Most people wouldn’t get this chance in their whole lifetime.

The things that would have made the project easer to accomplish.

  The things that would have made the video run more smoothly would be a huge list so I will only name a few. The first on the list is the actual video, the video was very dark and we could barely see the person talking in it. The second would have to be the audio because we would record some thing and the next day it would be in a whole bunch of different files we had to import audio a lot. The third in the list would have to be the music, it we had a hard time finding it and it took a long time to import it but we made it through. The fourth would be that we had so many technical difficulties that I can’t even remember them all!  I think the video would be more interesting if we had a bit more information in it and a little more description about the laws and rights of animals. The video could have been better by having brighter video and clearer audio. But the pomes are fantastic!

The things I have learned about telling a story.

I have learned many things about telling a story including music, pictures, videos, voice, and most of all text. The music has to set the mood for the whole project. Take my subject, animal cruelty you can’t have bubbly music with a serious topic like that! The pictures have to be in time with the music and have the pictures matching the subject. You can’t have a subject titled animal cruelty with a picture of purple unicorns and fluffy bunny’s underneath it. The video itself is a powerful thing. It’s showing that it’s actually happening and that we are not making this up! How this is happening and we are not preventing it! The voice is a big part of it too the voices have to be clear and understandable so that people know what’s going on in the video. Now for the biggest part of the video the text. Text is everything above text is expressed through music, pictures, videos, voice, writing and more! So you can’t have a video without text!

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