Senior project day #17

Today we went to tech lab around 9am to make sure everything looks fine with our video, after that we met with Ethany who watched our video and I am not gonna lie it was a bit nervous because we weren't sure if she is gonna like it or not. But she did liked it and she was happy about it. Then filled all of our evaluation forms and stuff and we got our signatures from Ethany. After that meeting we worked on our final essays which actually took a lot of time to finish. That is how we spent our last of the senior project. It was a fun ride and there was a lot ups and downs but most importantly we did it and that is all that matters.

Senior project day #16

So today all we did was editing, I don't have lot to say about it but we did about 4 hours of editing. It took a lot of time to cut every single clip exactly how we wanted and ordering the clips just how want was pretty hard too. Then we were struggling how to add music on final cut pro that took us about an hour to figure it out but we did it. after that it was all just playing around with the clips and music and making sure everything looks fine. After all pretty long and hard day for us but now the video is done we feel released and we excited to show our video to everyone.

Senior project weekly reflection blog #3

Last full week of senior project is done, three very different weeks lot of work and frustration but I am more than happy to say that we are almost done. At the beginning of this project I didn’t believe that it’s gonna be this much work, but it was, and it was lot of different things we had to do. But let’s get back to the final week of our project, Final week was mostly editing and putting our stuff together, we already had most of our clips from previous weeks so we spent lot of time at tech lab. My favourite part was interviews, it was a lot of fun to interview people and see what they think about proctor as a school and as a community. We interviewed two student athletes Chandler Devaney and Matt Slick who are both four year seniors here at Proctor. We asked about what proctor has given to them and it was funny because their answers were very similar to each other. We also asked about sports because chandler is the captain for boys varsity lacrosse and Matt is the captain for boys varsity hockey, so those two guys now what it takes to be a student athlete and how to take good care of school while competing on a high level in sports, like they both said it is all about how you manage your free time. After that we interviewed our headmaster Mike, it was a great interview where he told us about proctor traditions and he is expecting from student here in proctor academy. That interview is big part of our video because I think it is good when Mike is talking about his own school. That was pretty much the only filming we did this week after that we have been editing a lot and now we are at the point where we only have to do our final touches to our video to make sure it’s perfect. This week was my least favourite week because we didn’t do filming that much and we spent most of our time inside editing, but we had to do it so it was fine. Our teamwork with Jack has been working really well and I couldn’t be more happier that I was able to do this senior project with my roommate. Overall a great last week of work and we are more than ready to present our movie to all the students and parents.

Senior project day #15

Almost there, that is the thought after this day. We did our last filming today and we have all the footage and clips we need for our movie. All we have to do is line them up and add the music on the background, make sure we have good transitions so we the video will look clean and smooth. Today we spent our time editing once again. I also spent some time with algebra 2 because I have to make sure I also pass that class. We are actually still working while I am writing this blog we are trying to make a time-lapse of the thunderstorm that is going on outside. it would be pretty cool to catch that but we'll see. If anyone of you have any ideas what songs we should on our video you can suggest those on the comments. Overall a good day and it feels good that we are almost done with our senior project.

Senior project day #14

Today was an exciting day for us, we had a meeting with our headmaster Mike where we asked him questions about proctor and why students should pick proctor over other schools. We asked about proctor traditions, and What does it take to be a student here at proctor academy.  It was a really interesting meeting and I felt like it is gonna look and sound great on our video. I think it is always important to have someone who has been working the core values for this school to speak about those core values and that way make it even more clear for people what proctor is like. After that we headed to the tech lab and continued our editing, We went through the interview we did with Mike and edited that one so it looks as good as possible. Editing has been lot of fun and it's also getting lot easier than like a week ago because now we know how to actually use the final cut pro so it doesn't take that much time from us to do it. After all a solid day for us.

Senior project day #13

So today we did little bit of editing in the morning, nothing special just a little things to make our video better. After lunch we started our interviews which are big part of our video like I said in the weekly reflection blog too. We decided to start our interviews by talking to couple four year senior student athletes. First we interviewed Chandler who is a four year senior and also a captain of the lacrosse team. We asked him questions about proctor and what proctor has gave him during his four years here. We also talked about the lacrosse team and what it takes to be a part of proctor community. After that we interviewed Matt Slick, who is also a four year senior and a captain for boys hockey team. We asked him the same questions and it was funny because Matt's and Chandler's answers were pretty similar. I think that just shows us that proctor is affecting all the students in a similar way. I'm happy with our interviews and tomorrow we are interviewing The headmaster Mike. overall a great day for us.

Senior project day #12

So week number three which is also our last full week of senior project started off today, Our morning was actually little bit different than usually because we were staying at Jack's house over the weekend we got back to school this morning around 8.00 am. we woke up at 5am and drove back to school. But that didn't really affect our project that much we got some breakfast and after that we started doing our editing, we started to put our clips together and kind of see how our video is going to start. We are probably going to start our video with a interview, we are probably interview the admission office to start off the video. I think the interviews are going to make our video even better and also more exciting to watch and easier to follow too. Today was a little bit shorter than our usual day day because we didn't do any filming. We only focused on editing today to see if there is anything we have film again or something we don't wanna use. So far our video is looking good.