Blog #9: Me Being All Unique and Stuff

Once upon a time, a girl named Rachael had a dilemma with her gr. 11 second semester schedule and had to make a few changes to it. In order to change her math class, she had to drop peer tutoring and choose a new class for second period. Options were gym, law and media. Law seemed like a lot of work, and she had already taken fitness last semester, so she chose media.

And here our story begins!

It was in this media class where she learned how to analyze media texts, decode the hidden messages in advertisements, and how to blog!

She really enjoyed this course. She had an entertaining class, a great teacher, and projects that were actually fun! Most of the projects were a group effort, and she enjoyed working with her friends Holly and Justine on almost all of them.

Thumbs up on a great year!

Test dates were announced a good time in advance, projects were given a fair amount of time to be completed, and the class field trip was fun. Like all other classes, there were parts of the class that Rachael didn't enjoy. For instance, the history of the newspaper, radio, TV, and internet. And the other parts of the class she did enjoy, was watching Grease and The Breakfast Club in class.

Overall, Rachael had a good experience in EMS3O. Her final grade is TBA, but she knows if she studies hard she will maintain her grade.

This is just the end of gr.11, but Rachael's story still continues.

And they all lived happily ever after.

Stay in school kids!

(P.S: Just thought I'd mention how totally weird it was writing about myself in third person!)

Blog #8: Music Video & MOD

Music Video
Well! Making that music video was both fun and a challenge. Choosing a song was more difficult than I found, after narrowing it down to about six songs, it was a close tie with "Hey Hey Girl" by The Virgins and "Girls Do What They Want" by The Maine. I finally decided on "Girls Do What They Want" the Maine, because I thought that the lyrics of the song would be easier to find pictures for. Turns out, the picture finding process wasn't as bad as I anticipated it to be. I just went through the song and found appropriate pictures for the lyrics, and decided which parts I would use live footage for. After that was done, I decided I would put all the pictures in and live footage in sync with the song on Windows MovieMaker, and add in transitions at the end.

That was my first mistake.

But I mean, if you're googling for pictures of these guys all day, it's not toooo bad.

I've never really used MovieMaker before, so I was unaware that adding in transitions would actually add time, I thought MovieMaker would be nice and NOT add extra time, it would mesh, sync whatever... the two pictures in between so there is no time gained or taken away. But no. That didn't work out. MovieMaker decided to be a pain in the ass and cut back the length of the slide which completely screwed up my live music. After Holly having to endure my frustrated phone call, I decided to delete what I had from the chorus on. I added the pictures in and then the transitions right after. It (fortunately) didn't take as long as I anticipated it would, but I was still frustrated that I had to redo more than half of it. But overall, I'm happy with the final product.

The finished product.

MOD
I was really excited to go to Much on Demand. I was excited at first because I was hoping that either an actor/actress, band, musician or artist would be there. Unfortunately, there wasn't supposed to be anyone there. Although, Tim Deegan and Jesse Giddings' good looks completely made up for that.
Anyways, (along with everyone else) I was stoked. When we first got there, I felt incredibly uncomfortable leaving my purse with everyone else's bags, and right out front of where a door was. The only thing that kept me relatively sane was that there was someone guarding the door
and someone guarding the bags. Next up, we had to chill in the stairwell, which we did not know would last an hour. Fortunately, cute guy with eyebrow piercing kept us entertained while he was giving us wristbands.
When we were FINALLY allowed to go inside, it was really cool to see how everything was set up. I had no clue that the bloggers, VJs and other people who work there were all in front of us on their laptops working and such. That was pretty cool. It was also cool to see Trevor Boris and Liz Trinnear working there.
When it was about time to start the show, it didn't really feel like a live show. When the camera started rolling and when everyone started applauding, it just didn't seem like it was live. Also, most of the segments they did you could tell were made up. For instance, they started talking about fears, and Jesse had the same fear as someone else in the audience? I seriously doubt that. He also asked people in the audience what their fears were, and chose the best one.
Overall, I thought it was a pretty cool experience. I would like to go one day in the summer when there is someone famous there. I probably won't bring a bag so I'm not completely freaking out over where my belongings are, but it was nice how we got to chose where we could sit and who we can sit with. I'd definitely return with a friend.