final blog part 1

a. For our class’ final video project we have been using some e-mails back and forth, but more recently we have created an extensive Facebook group that documents the activities we will be doing for that day and what we have already done. We also used search engines on the internet to do lots of research for our project; we wanted to see how the various stars of reality shows dressed and to see clips of the shows. For the posters that were put up, the more technologically saavy of us used Photoshop to fix up the images where we superimposed images of students on ‘reality show’ set backgrounds. For the video clips we took inspiration from most every show on TV, from the confessionals on America’s Next Top Model and even all the kitchen shows, to the lead-ins that are seen on the best soap operas and teaser clips of forthcoming episodes to create more drama and suspense. I think we had some trouble finding our main goal for the project, but now that we have created a theme that goes along with the video and our desire to demonstrate a commentary on the affects of reality TV shows and how prevalent they are in the media today, I think we have really found a good path to be working on. Although I have really liked and enjoyed working on this project and I do think it’s really fun to dress up, I think a lot of the costumes were only worn by a few members of the class, mostly the guy actors and a few girls. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether the whole class is working and I hope all of our projects are able to come together in the end to present how well we understood our theme.