August 16, 2024 in AICE Media Studies

Introduction

    Today was my third day in class. We worked on setting up our Adobe Premiere accounts and taking some notes on varying camera shot sizes.

What We Did

   We started off class with Ms. Pistocchi explaining the day's activities. We were given a choice: learn how to storyboard or set up our Adobe Premiere accounts. The class chose to set up our Adobe Premiere accounts. However, we first needed to watch a video on the various camera shot sizes to prepare us for the future.

    The video we watched was the Ultimate Guide to Camera Shots: Every Shot Size Explained [The Shot List, Ep 1] by StudioBinder on YouTube. We spent twelve minutes watching it and then another five afterwards discussing what we learned along with the notes we took. 

    After the video we all moved to a computer to use and logged in. Thankfully, everyone had already logged into the computers, so they started up much faster.

    Then, I opened the Microsoft window and searched for Adobe Premiere in the applications section. Once I found it, I clicked it and waited for it to open. This took about five minutes.

    Next, I looked for the in-app tutorial and got to work on it. I spent the remainder of class going through the tutorial.

    I was one of the few lucky people who were able to log in successfully. The girl sitting next to me spent the entire class period troubleshooting and still couldn't open Premiere. Around ten people total were able to set up their Adobe Premiere accounts and start the tutorials. The class spent the entire period working on this.

What I Learned

    During the StudioBinder video, I learned about and took notes on the various shot sizes, including:

• Establishing 
• Master
• Wide
• Full
• Medium Full
• Medium
• Medium Close-up
• Close-up
• Extreme Close-up

    I spent about 20 minutes on the tutorial and learned some of the basics, such as:

• Creating a new project
• Importing footage or clips through the project window
• Closing and opening panels in the workspace
• Creating folders within the project window to organize clips
• Dragging and dropping clips into the timeline
• Shortening clips in the timeline and reordering them
• Changing the speed of clips

    I cannot wait to learn even more about Adobe Premiere, editing, and filming.

    

My First Week in AICE Media Studies

Introduction

    Welcome to my first post. My name is Saarah Juman-Welch, and I am a junior at South Broward High School. Today was my second day in this class, and I cannot wait to learn more. 

What We Did

    On Monday, August 12, my teacher, Ms. Pistocchi, introduced herself and went over the class rules and expectations. She then had the entire class stand up and get their first-day packets. After sitting back down, she reviewed the AICE exams and informed us of what would be happening throughout the school year.  

    Later on, Ms. Pistocchi broke us up into groups of 2–4 people for a first-day activity. Said activity involved each group creating a persuasive, informative, or entertaining essay detailing what they did over the summer. My group was assigned persuasion and wrote about a trip to Busch Gardens Tampa, Volcano Bay in Orlando, bowling, learning to drive. During the last 30 minutes of class, each group had to present and see if the audience could guess what category their essay fell into. That was all we did on Monday.

    Next, on Wednesday, August 14, our entire class had to make their Blogger accounts and work on our first post. Sadly, our school computers are very slow and have many issues. We spent the entire class period attempting to create our accounts and blogs. 

    Firstly, our computers have horrible service and work incredibly slowly. So, starting up the computers took ages. Then we had to log into our Gmail accounts. Next, we made Blogger accounts. That part took the longest and caused the most trouble because most of the students, myself included, kept getting error messages. Eventually, after having to log out of all my accounts, closing all applications, and restarting the computer, I was able to log back in. I then made my first blog post. Which brings us to this point.

What I Learned

    Monday and Wednesday were not much of learning days. However, I did learn how to make a blog and post it. That was all for my first two days in AICE Media Studies.