Wednesday April 24th our Gordon Cooper class (Digital

Wednesday April 24th our Gordon Cooper class (Digital Media Production) went on a field trip. First we went to downtown Oklahoma City and took HDR photos. We took them at the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, and then walked to The Festival of The Arts and took more pictures along the way.  The art festival had modern art, paintings, and culinary arts (food), everything was available to buy (but most was fairly pricey). It was a really neat place to walk around and there was always something going on.  I had cajun chicken and a fudge brownie Sunday.  Below are some of the pictures that I took.

 

 

Oklahoma City Festival of The Arts

At Gordon Cooper we will be going to the Oklahoma City Festival of The Arts as a class.  The art festival has three categories of art: Visual Arts, Culinary Arts, and Performing Arts.  Visual arts includes paintings and sculptures.  Culinary consists of different kinds of food.  Each stand will be partnered with a charity, when you buy food from a stand, you support whichever charity they have chosen.  In performing arts, there will be 4 stages with different performances lasting throughout the day.  We will be leaving fairly early in the morning and taking HDR pictures around Oklahoma City to upload to the web before attending.

 

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment is harassment because of a person sex. Sexual harassment victims and offenders can be male or female. Simple teasing is not unlawful unless however harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment.

The results of sexual harassment include - Psychological stress and health impairment, decreased work or school performance, defamation of character and reputation, having to relocate to another city, another job, or another school.

If you ask someone to stop harassing you, and they don’t, that is when it becomes illegal. When harassed you should tell someone in authority about the incident.

 

DSLR Video Tips on Lynda.com

The DSLR video tips video on Lynda.com teaches everything you need to know to get started shooting Amateur Films on a DSLR camera. It explains the advantages, as well as the disadvantages of using DSLR’s over ordinary video cameras. One section that was interesting is the discussion of frame rates. 24fps gives you a “film look” while 30fps gives you more of a typical expected video look like something you might see on TV. 60fps is good for fast moving subjects, as well as for slow motion because more frames leads to smoother video when slowed down. The video also discusses how to achieve good recording audio with a DSLR, since the built in mic’s on these cameras are very low quality.

Running time: 2hr 28m

 

Video Journalism Shooting Techniques – with Jeff Sengstack on Lynda.com

The video tutorial “Video Journalism Shooting Techniques” on Lynda.com teaches the basics of shoot Journalism style videos. It has seven different sections including ”Telling Stories”, “Moving The Camera”, and “Working With Audio”. Telling stories teach’s you how to create effective stories visually and aurally. It also teaches how to plan your shoots, and shoot a variety of shots and angles. “Moving the Camera” covers following action on scene, trucking shots, and point of view shots. Working with audio covers the different kinds of audio microphones and recording devices that can be used for shooting dialog, as well as getting good sound bytes to edit in with your shots.

Running time: 2hr 4m

 

Whois :: Jane McGonigal – SuperBetter

Jane McGonigal is a video game designer. She primarily makes “alternate reality” games and other games that pertain to real life. SuperBetter is a game that she has created that helps people “get better”. She invented and used the game to recover when she had a potentially fatal sickness. Not only did the game help her get better, but its now helping thousands of other people get better and helping her make a name for herself. On McGonigals blog she states that her goal is for a video game designer to win a Nobel Peace prize by the year 2023. 

 

About Me

A post for Gordon Cooper Technology Center:

Why did you choose this program?

I chose the digital media production program because I have interests in a wide variety of media and want to get a taste of them all.

What do you hope to learn?

I hope to receive additional training on Video Production as well as Photography and Android Development

What are your goals?

To complete a career major