Three Point Editing

Final Cut Pro!

Three point editing is by far the best way the best way to do your editing on final cut pro. Three point editing is the best way to accurately place a clip into a sequence. This is because it allows you to use the source clip and specify the in and out points of the video. 

When doing a three point edit you must select the in and out points and specify what part of the source clip you want to place in the sequence. You then must determine the duration of the edit and define where to out the video in the timeline. After defining these points its then time to choose the tracks and drag the clip onto the canvas to overlay the clip. 

Main keyboard shortcuts include:

F9 - Insert Edit

F10 - Overwrite edit

F11 - Replace edit

F12 - Superimpose edit

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"How to Love"
Lil' Wayne

The music video produced for the Lil' Wayne song "How to Love" is a video that is a great example of the mode of visualizing music called amplification. When first listening to the song it seems like a love song to a woman about being mistreated in relationships, "You've had a lot of crooks try to steal your heart never really had love couldn't ever figure out how to love," but the video gives the song a whole new meaning.

The video starts in a hospital and takes you through the life of a young girl who's life has been nothing but struggle.

Did Video Kill the Radio Star?

Could video kill the radio star? 

With the amount of things the average person has to do in a day how could it?

 The idea of the music video is great, waking up for school in my teens I immediately turned to MTV channel 55, and got ready for school jamming out to the hits from all of my favorite rap, hip hop and R&B artists. The videos that I was watching was the perfect way to start everyday and was truly when I first started caring about the music industry. Some videos have a sense of inappropriateness but most of the videos came with fun and exciting interpretations of the music I was listening to. It seems that if anything the videos have been helping the radio star making songs come to life and bringing creative dances and sex appeal to the forefront. The only problem is you have to seek out videos unlike radio which comes to you. 

 In reality how often can you sit in front of a computer or television searching for the hottest new videos? For me never, the only music videos I see are the most popular ones that my friends show me or the videos that people tag on Facebook. Not because I don't like videos but I don't have time to search for them and MTV doesn't even play music videos the way that they used to. The "Music Television" channel is filled full of so called "reality shows" and competitions between drunken goons and sex obsessed teenagers. 

Radio has now and will be a huge way to obtain music. Not only do people listen to the radio everyday at work and in there cars but now even cell phones have applications that stream radio stations. There are applications that stream music videos such as VEVO but watching a video while doing things is much more difficult than just listening and multitasking. 

photo © _dorothy_

I am Amazed

When first joining the music video class my partner and I had no idea what song we wanted to use for our video. My partner is a beautiful singer who has produced many of her own songs but we know a plethora of Shepherdstown artists who have songs that we would have loved to feature. After much thought we made the decision to use a song titled, "I am Amazed" by one of our "Towny" friends. When dividing the song we plan on using videos of the artist during guitar solos and videos of children playing when he is singing the chorus. The children is what we had envisioned for the song from the time we started. Hopefully we will do the song and the artist justice with our portrayal of his lyrics.

KIDZ BIZ

After much thought about my life and what interests me it didn't take long for me to realize that my passion lies with my job at The Little Gym of Frederick.  I'm lucky enough to play all day with princesses and superheroes in a land they like to think of as "Gymdalasia". I get the enjoyment of hearing that when my students go home rather than playing house they play "Little Gym" and pretend to be "Miss. Danielle" while teaching their parents and siblings gymnastics skills. This is why when assigned to make a twenty five page website on a topic of my choice, I knew my first step was to talk to my boss. 

After talking the new owner of my company we decided to make the webpage focused on Kidz Biz, the Frederick locations branch of the International Franchise, The Little Gym. This will include descriptions of what our facility offers as well as information about the new location that we will be moving to. The site will also give the parents of the children we teach information about the Kidz Biz family. Starting with information about our new owner, our director, and each of the teachers in our staff. We will be taking pictures to show our facilities as well as the equipment that we use to grow skills and confidence in the children we teach.  

The Signified

Taking a look at three of my classmates political commercials that have many signifiers in common. An example of this is the American Flag which appears in the commercials to symbolize the American Patriotism that each candidate is trying to exude.  

Starting with the American Flag waving this commercial is overflowing with signifiers. Another signifier is the picture of the dictators that are supposed to signify that the candidate is not trustworthy and is trying to take over our society. The criminal and zombie are signifiers of the dangerous things that could come threaten your home, making you think about the safety of your household without guns. The last signifier is the Picture of Obama with the big red cross through him. This is an obvious signifier which means not to trust or vote for this man. 

Three of the many signifiers as seen in this advertisement are the words, "Pull the trigger and hit the target every time," the state of West Virginia, and Harry marching in the tea party. The first signifier the quotation in the commercial expresses the feelings on gun control as well as showing that he is a regular man and not just a high paid politician. The next signifier is the picture of the state of West Virginia. This signifies the state that the candidate is running from and then leads into explaining that he is running to be the governor from that state. 

This political campaign commercial for Michelle Bachmann has come very cool signifiers. One being the Starbucks coffee gun picture. This picture is one that signifies that guns should be a part of everyday just like your morning coffee but also that they should be legal to have everywhere. The upbeat and very motivational music is another signifier that tells me that this candidate has a bright disposition and a strong candidate. The last signifier is the photo of Michelle standing at the podium smiling with her hand held high waving at the audience. This picture has patriotism and makes her look like a reliable and trustworthy person who is looking out for you. 

The kid from class.

Recently in class we discussed the website cracked.com that claims to be America's Only Humor Site Since 1958. Travis the student from class discussed an article on the humorous website called  "5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies" he expressed that the article was outside of the typical funny material and was a real bummer. I think the article fits in perfectly with the other sarcastic and funny material that is on the website. The article has a lot of humorous statements in it for example the 4th bad idea,"Just ignore them" is more for the verbally abusive situations. Let's be honest, it's pretty hard to ignore a rage-fueled sociopath throwing elbows into your kidneys."

I dont feel like there would have been a better way to manage the content because it fits with the website and really wasn't outside the typical website content. This first paragraph even states that fans of the webpage had requested for the bullying topic to get some play. 

"Your life should never flash in front of your eyes before you've lost your virginity."

Read more: 5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-bad-ideas-dealing-with-bullies-you-learned-in-movies/#ixzz1Zj9PHUlX