Our goals for today were finishing/editing the documentary, interviewing Ms. Reid, and starting the longer documentary.

Today we got to sit around and edit the film, its looking pretty good so far to be honest and is just about done. We are using a song called "Arrival of the Birds and Transformation". It flows perfectly with our film and really emphasis the seriousness/mood of the film. I don't really have a lot to post about unfortunately because all we did today was editing, but our goals for tomorrow are to finish the documentary by third period and then start the longer less polished documentary that will hopefully be shown Thursday. I'm really looking forward to the longer documentary because we get to use some of the bloopers from our recording! Yep bloopers people, that means your hilarious and embarrassing moments will be in the documentary that we hopefully get to show on Thursday and trust me when I say we've got some pretty good things that you guys are doing on camera.

Noah, Tess, and David working on editing the documentary

Documentary Nature/Fitness Trail

This morning the documentary group met up and hashed out the schedule for the day. We discussed goals and what we wanted to accomplish today. We decided that we wanted to learn Adobe Premiere Pro, capture some B-roll and interview Ms. Tash.  We accomplished all of our goals for the day including learning Adobe Premiere Pro.

My job today was mostly learning Adobe Premiere Pro so that I could teach the rest of the group about Adobe Premiere Pro. I watched some YouTube tutorials on how to use Adobe Premiere Pro and what buttons do what things. After I watched the YouTube tutorials I typed up a "How to use guide" to help my group in understanding the program as well. After I had typed up the "How to use guide" I went outside with the rest of the group to capture some B-roll of the honeysuckle group and flora group outside by the pond.  

The group prepping for the day ahead

Part of my how to use guide regarding the tool section

After we finished up getting B-roll and interviewing Ms. Tash we headed back inside and worked on organizing our footage from the past two days. We also worked on our blogs the last period of the day. 

I took some of you guy's feedback and added in a picture showing part of the Adobe Premiere How to Use Guide that I'm making.

Mound Laser 'Rain Garden' Visit

We got to go over to Mound Laser and help plant some plants in the ground for rain garden that they incorporated into their landscaping. Before we started working we got to learn about different kinds of plants and their affects on the ground and environment. We learned that the different plants helped to prevent natural erosion that is caused by the run off of water. The instructor for our day at mound Laser told us that this wasn't really a rain garden, but it was a bioswale. Below is a picture of a bioswale and how it affects the environment.

Credit of picture goes to www.greeningthegray.org

After we learned all about bioswales and other important factors of plants and such on the environment we got to grab our shovels and get to work planting the flowers and shrubs.

If we graded the bioswale with the rubrics we created I would grade it on these three principles
1. Environmental Impact (the bioswale positively affects the environment)
2. Sustainability (We used recyclable plastics to hold the plants before we planted them we also used mulch which is decomposed material such as leaves.)
3. Conservation (the bioswale is sustainable and is able to be improved and changed so that its positive effects increase.)

I'll always remember how if felt to put the plant down into the ground and know that I just helped the environment even if it was just in a small way.

Here's a picture from that day

Job Shadowing At the Air Force Base!

Hey everybody! So I was asked to write a post on this blog about my job shadowing experience that happened on Friday! Job shadowing is what we do  twice a year at my school, where we go to someones place of work and shadow them for a day to get a sense of what they do there. Anyways on to the information on my day, I shadowed two engineers who were working on some things that I won't talk about since they asked us not to talk about it. Haha, not very descriptive huh. Sorry but its out of respect to them and the Air Force Base! I also got to go on a tour of the facilities and labs that they work in on base. In one of these labs I got to learn about the difference between an AC motor and a DC motor! It would take me a while to explain what the differences are so I'll provide some pictures and links so that you can understand more about what I learned about!

Here's the link to the AC motor Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_motor

And here's the link to the DC motor Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_motor

Here's the AC motor
 


Here's the DC motor
 
Moving on, that's not all I did today. I also got to go and see some of the things that were getting ready to be put into the Air force Museum! One of the things I got to see is a SICBM (small intercontinental ballistic missile) mobile launcher it launched a MGM-134 Midgetman. That's a kind of SICBM in case you didn't know. It was really cool to see things like that. Anyways I had a really great time job shadowing Friday and hope that everyone else who went job shadowing had a really great time and got as much out of it as I did!