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= = = = = = =Day 4 - FINAL DAY: 4th December 2009:= Today was my favourite day from this program! So here is the lowdown from today; The other groups had until period 3 to get their presentations finalised, but since our group had finished everything yesterday, we were free to help other groups (which I did a LOT of) and we were just mucking around with the camera, filming everyone around the library. Just before the end of period 4, Year 10 was sent to the grass area to enjoy a sausage or two and a drink of choice. As soon as the final lunch bell went, it was showtime! Teachers, principles, special guests and students gathered in the library for the premiere of each group's presentation. To be honest I enjoyed seeing each groups presentation. But my gosh, I was not expecting the overwhelming responce we got from everyone when my group presented! I haven't heard that much cheering and clapping since the last football game I watched. It was unreal. But in the end, my group proudly won 2 out of the 3 major awards. We won "best overall presentation" and one to do with collaboration. Each member received two movie tickets each! Who should I take with me? Or should I use both for myself! Mwahahahahah (Evil Laugh). Overall it was a magnificent day. As soon as I'm not busy I will upload our winning video to the site so you can see it again from the comfort of your homes.

I want to thank my group, all the students and teachers for putting this event together and of course Mrs L. I have learned more about the importance of teamwork and I will never forget this day! It was fun! Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and most importantly......Happy Australia Day!

- DA

=Day 3: 3rd December 2009:= Today was another very productive day indeed! The only unfortunate thing that happened was when our laptop wouldn't import the clips into Movie Maker, but Matt the technician saved the day! Thanks a bunch! Anyway, our group spent the day editing the film. By the end of the day, we had managed to edit all of the clips we needed together, with the text and most of the audio as well. But tonight I will just be going over it and fixing up tiny things here and there, just to make sure it runs smoothly. But my gosh, it was so hard to stop people from looking at parts of our film! Khalil went crazy when someone would walk past and stare at our screen, and lots of people wouldn't stop asking me if they can see it. But I just kept saying "wait until tomorrow". It got annoying after a while, but I sort of felt good in a way. Even some of the teachers (Miss White, Mrs Hawkins, etc.) were laughing their heads off at just a few seconds of the part they managed to see! Other than that, I appeared in an interview for Group 10, recorded a voice clip for Group 9 and they took a mugshot of me as well. That's all for now, so see you at/after the presentations tomorrow (and the last day of Year 10!) P.S: Thanks for the lollies

-DA

=Day 2: 2nd December 2009:= Today was an 100 percent productive day! And I learned something new today that I never knew before......Mr Clark was born for acting! (See on Friday what I'm talking about). Today I was shocked when my group ended up finishing all of the filming today, as I was expecting the filming to go for a day or two. We ended up filming everything in less than two periods! Talk about teamwork! But before that, each of us attended two workshops that are meant to help us with our presentations. I attended the Leadership one and the Movie Maker one. The other guys went to Podcasting, Advanced Powerpoint, etc. The video editing will be done throughout tomorrow, and if we need to we can wrap it up on Friday morning. Our roles for the film includes Khalil (who will be known as Alex), who is the "star" of the film and the one who doesn't care about the environment, Rafael plays himself and gets interviewed afterwards, and I play myself as well when I'm interviewed. There are also some cameo appearances by a few of our friends who get interviewed as well, just to get more opinions on how "Alex" is damaging the Delany environment. The plot can be read in my last post, but for now I have attached the original storyboard of the film for your viewing pleasure. See you all tomorrow!





- DA -As I said earlier, nothing is final yet. I was just listing some of my ideas and thoughts about what I could do. But anyway I do need to ask what do you think the maximum length should be for the final video? Just so I know how long we need to spend filming for it. Wait.........I think I got an idea! If not many groups are doing the environment, we might as well should just stick to it. I thought maybe we could have one of us acting as someone who never throws his rubbish in the bin/doesn't recycle, and we will have interviews with different people about the negative impact of his actions, and how his actions are damaging the environment. Then the interviewed people then talk about how he can make a positive difference to the Delany environment if he starts to put his rubbish in the bin and starts to recycle. After all of that, he then realises the damage he is causing so he cleans up all his rubbish off the ground and into the bin. It's still sort of like a mocku-mentary, but it is still mostly serious yet informative, so I feel that the tone would be appropriate if it is like this. If that's Ok with you Miss, then that's the final idea! Much better - keeps the focus local but serious, not send-up...and doable in the time you've got. no more than 5 minutes for presentation

- DA

Hi guys...am happy for you to change topics...provided you have thought through where you are going...mock-u-mentary usually is a send up of things that are politically correct - so don't know that the tone would be appropriate for what we are trying to achieve this week. happy for you to do discrimination at Delany...could still focus on people/interviews, etc...and maybe solutions? Or stick to environment - not many groups are looking at this, and you could then maybe look at solutions for pollution/recycling - how we could really make a difference at our local school level. As far as how you use your time, I think if you finished filming by end of lunch on thurs, could edit/assemble Thurs afternoon and then 3 more periods on Friday. If you have anything filmed before your workshops on Wed, or do research/downloads, the workshop time will not just be show and tell but practical to help you actually make a start. Pleasee write back here if you have any more questions and i will respond tomorrow or later tonight when i get the chance. =UPDATE: 29th November 2009:= I know today is Sunday but I'm having doubts about what exactly we're going to film for our short-film. I'm expecting it to be roughly five or so minutes long, including credits. So far I know for sure that there will be some interview elements in it and that it will be based around Delany rather than the whole planet. We've got until Wednesday to think of something. I was thinking of doing a mock-umentary? That would be hilarious! I want to change topics from environment to discrimination. Are we allowed to do this Miss? If so, I want to do a mock-umentary about discrimination at Delany. I was think of having all three of us being fictional characters who are being discriminated against for a particular reason. There could be interviews with other students as well as teachers who talk about these victims of discrimiation. That's why it's a mock-umentary! I have a feeling that it will be easier to film than the environment. To Rafael and Khalil, if you guys are reading this.....please help me! We've got an extremely limited time to do this. The plan is to do all the filming on Wednesday after the technology workshops, edit it the whole day on Thursday, and continue to edit Friday morning before the premiere. I'm pretty nervous, but I think we can pull it off!

- Daniel

=**Day 1: 26th November 2009**= Today, myself (Daniel, the facilitator of the group!), Rafael and Khalil had visited the different seminars about discrimination, the environment, refugees and poverty. We were required to visit two seminars each. I attended the seminars about poverty and discrimination. I found both very interesting!

After lunch, as a group we decided what we were going to do for our project. We are keen on doing a short-film sort of video, you know? It will be based on the environment, and I believe it will be focused on littering and pollution. It won't be a claymation or another animation due to time reasons, so it will be filmed in real life. I'm assuming we are all going to act in it somehow, but the final idea, props, etc hasn't been confirmed yet. We could change our minds, but we are all keen on what we've got going on right now. We will start working on it next Wednesday and Thursday, and it will premiere on Friday the 4th of December! I'm looking forward to getting started! So I'll get back to you all on Wednesday!

- Daniel Agius

A good start - very articulate writing, Daniel! Make sure everyone in the group contributes to your reflections on this page. Some realistic/good thoughts about the scope you can take on in your project. Good narrowing of focus as well... Looking forward to more good things next week - thanks guys! Mrs L.