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This year, I have two students to teach in the film class, and I am finding it a challenge.  They are both good students, who are eager to learn, yet with two it is not easy to figure out how to write and produce a film.  We are working on it, and will see how that goes.

In other news, we have only one computer this year.  This is mostly because the ones we used last year are only 40GB, and we found they were too limited for film projects.  So, the girls in my class shared the computer for their first editing projects with photos and music.  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that because they had to communicate together to edit, they were able to get to know one another a bit more. I think that will help when the time comes for the movie. :)

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We will be having three students in the class for the 2009-2010 school year, and I am looking forward to starting up in another week or so.

I am going to be looking into what we can do about our computers-we had several technical difficulties last year, despite our attempts to get the computers to edit faster.  I know the Lord is able to fill this need for us, as He did see us through last year.  We will not be editing for a bit, so I hope to resolve this before late October.

As for last years movies, they did turn out well (especially considering the computers were slow), and I hope to post them online.

Here’s to this next year! :)

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Here is our movie for this year. We had some sound issues during the coffee house scene, but I think the edit came out well for what we had to work with.

And, to the students who are viewing this (Danae, Grace, and Ryan), I had to cut out a little of Ryan’s driving and the scene in the house to get it to upload to You Tube. You all did a great job, and I am so thankful you were in the class! :)

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We have now wrapped up this school year.

After the filming was finished, two of my students were able to do their editing during our class time. We did have some technical difficulties to overcome, due to the fact that we found out the computers we had would not handle the video files, but found we could use two computers we had here at my house.  So, we would bring those in, and the students edited on those.  These computers were better, although I do think they were a little slow, but they worked.

My third student, a young man who had already edited videos before, finished up the year editing at his own home.  Our class uses Windows Movie Maker in the actual classroom, but this young man had an opportunity to use Adobe Premier because it was what he had been using at home.  I believe it was a great chance for the students to all see how differently each person not only edits, but also what portions of the storytelling does each individual find key to the point of the story.  (I will post the You Tube version, when I have it ready to upload from here, so you can watch for that link!)

For the school year, I believe it was another successful year.  The students enjoyed it overall, I thought, and we had some great input on the movies we watched.  I always like it when a student will bring up something in a film, a new thought I had not had about the storyline, writing, plot, music, etc.  It is a blessing to see these students engage in thoughtful, relevant conversation about film, and to see them learn about film and our culture.

That is it for this year-onto planning for next!  Thanks for stopping by!

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