We only have three days of school left, and our final project was submitted on Thursday.  If you didn't get yours turned in, Email your paper to steven.hepler@fwcs.k12.in.us today.  

Let's clean our machines.  When you're finished, the only thing remaining should be two video files on your desktop, the City Volleyball Championship from 2017, and the City Final Football Game from 2017.  These will be edited by my new teams in the fall to learn how iMovie works.

I'll check each machine to make sure that all files except for these are deleted.  You will also need to delete all of your old iMovie events and projects, too.  If you want hard copies, you'll need to bring in your own USB drive before Thursday.  This is a participation grade, so be diligent.  You'll get a perfect score if everything except the two videos are deleted from your machine.  You'll get zero points if not.

Go to your Finder, and select every item in each section, mainly Documents and Downloads.  Click the first item, shift click the last, then drag them to your trash can.  When you're finished, empty the trash.  Since you're leaving the two files on the desktop, don't go to All Files and select everything.  You'll need to leave those videos behind. 

Thanks for everything you've done this year.  Have a great summer.

Submit your Epic papers today.  Email them to steven.hepler@fwcs.k12.in.us and be sure that the names of all team members who worked on the paper are in your subject line.

Peer Evaluate the papers before you send them, then recycle your forms.  Me finding each specific Peer Eval form and matching it to each paper would be a huge hassle.  By this point, you either get it or you don't.  

Need a review on how to send your paper, whether it's in Pages or in Word?  Let's watch Tiger one more time for a recap.

Send me your papers before you leave today.  👍

Completed Epic papers are due in my InBox by the end of class on Thursday.  Remember the requirements:

Four paragraphs, please.  You'll need an intro, two body paragraphs and a conclusion, each 8 to 10 sentences long.  Review the videos below if you are struggling with what to say.  There are hundreds of articles online that will back up your claim. 

Remember how I copied and pasted my internet information into my paper?  You should do the same.  This will make it easy to check for plagiarism.  Remember, no more than four words in a row should come from your source.  Struggling on how to paraphrase?  Check out this lesson.

Here's my intro:

As a child of the 70s, I spent my early years listening to classic rock radio right here in the state of Indiana.  Bands like KISS, Bad Company and Led Zeppelin were favorites from the first time I heard them.  By the time I was 16, I learned how to play guitar, and my obsession with heavy metal was at its peak.  All of my heroes were long haired guys wearing tattoos and leather, writing songs with titles like “Welcome to the Jungle” or “Breaking the Law.”  The only female musicians I knew of were pop singers like Madonna or Janet Jackson, who were way too pop for me.  It wasn’t until I reached my forties that I truly dove in to the world of female singer-songwriters whose lyrics touched me, plus I realized their music was incredible, too.  Now, my Spotify playlists are much more balanced, and I’m inspired just as much by the piano as I am the guitar.  So who are these women of music who have me seeing life through a new lens, and how are they making show business better for other female musicians such as themselves?  Let’s find out.    

Like this.  Notice I don't give all personal opinion - I use information from a website to prove my point.  Do the same in your paper.  

Here's the plan for the nine school days we have left: Create a four-paragraph paper that addresses one of the writing prompts from yesterday's post, or one that addresses the same topic.  If you're editing a sports video, finish that, as well.

If you haven't filmed a project of your own in a while, pay close attention to the writing, as it will be weighted more heavily than your sports video, which I provided because you had nothing of your own.  The end of the term is when many of our grades bottom out.  Fall athletes, this could kill your eligibility, so be diligent.  Don't just "get it done."  Do it well.

Camera sign-outs are by special permission only.  We don't have time to film and edit anything of value at this point.

If you have video of your own to edit, do it!

If not, we'll write the Epic paper first, then finish editing either the Volleyball or Football videos.

What to do today?  If you have no original video of your own, pick a topic for your Epic Paper and outline what you want to say in your two body pagagraphs, plus an intro and conclusion.  Paragraphs should be 8 to 10 sentences each.  If you would like to do a related topic, let me know.

1. Why is positive representation of all races, cultures and genders and lifestyles in film important?​
2. How have movies like Wonder Woman and Black Panther increased awareness of representation of women and African Americans in film?
3. Did these films do a good job of presenting alternate viewpoints to white male Hollywood?
4. Are movies like Epic (2013) a good place to start for the representation of a female lead character in an action film?  How are men portrayed in these films  versus women?
5. Is it time we put fairy tale stereotypes and clichés to rest and wrote films about real people, not fantasy situations?
6. What do women want to see in themselves on the screen that they don’t see today?  What are the stereotypes, and why are they harmful?
7. What does any non-white culture want to see in themselves on screen that they don’t see today?  What are the stereotypes, and why are they harmful?
8. Which films do a good job of portraying non-white, non-male lead characters in a positive, realistic light?

As we finish up the term, those of us with no video of our own will edit City Volleyball and City Football Finals.  Football goes quickly, but volleyball is a longer video.  Please include both games, and see if any of the cheerleader footage is worth using.  Also include the post-game celebration.

Take a look at the original and grade it.  How was my camera work?  Music? Credits?  What was good, and what could I have done better?  What did you think about my editing?  Grade it, and we'll see.  

It's the end of the trilogy.  Excuse me while I cry a manly tear.  Notes today.  Quiz tomorrow.  Study hard, Patriots.

Today, we review sound effects and images.  Take ya notes.  Tomorrow, take ya quiz.

BIG THING TO REMEMBER - I need a source for every image you use in your Audiobook.  Remember how I taught you to do a screenshot of the picture, along with its name and who took it?  You'll need to do that.  This means if you have 15 pictures in your audiobook, you need 15 sources.  If you don't, you'll need to start again, find 15 new pictures, and get sources for all of them as you see in this video.  Sorry, being mad about this rule will not change it.  Get your sources as you go, and we'll type them into a Word document and include them in the description of your video.  We do not need to put them in the credits.

Many of us are producing them, so here's a tutorial on the process.  What's different this year?

• You're providing your own audio instead of getting it from me, but if you're still downloading Football and Volleyball, you'll need to review getting things from a USB drive.

This reviews not only the editing process, but how to minimize and maximize thumbnails so we can see what we're doing.  And guess what?  IT'S A TRILOGY!

This could mean three days of my annoying Colonel Sanders voice.  We can only hope.

Warm-up first.  Click here to match up the answers on Importing Video.

Let's check out some special defects today!  Click play.

My big warning?  Effects should have a purpose.  Don't do stuff just because it's cool.  That makes you sound like a middle schooler.  I know you ARE a middle schooler, but don't overplay your hand, right? 😂

Do we need a review?  Absolutely.  Here are two of them.

The last day of school is now visible on my calendar!  Let's get rid of all the stuff on our computers that aren't ours.  Ditto for anything you don't want to download to your own thumb drive and take home.  Here's how.

Second part of today's assignment: each group needs to drag and drop the following videos to their desktop from the thumb drive I give them:

• City Volleyball Champs
• City Football Finals

These are both games in one big chunk of video, so if you have nothing to work on, load one of them into iMovie and split it into pieces, play by play.  Edit the video, including each play in your finished project.

Don't forget that you'll earn a zero for each video of your own you don't film.  This is my plan to keep you busy, not to boost your grade if you aren't doing your own work.  Filming deadlines are on the board.  

First, let's review some of our classroom rules.  Click here to do that.

Next, let's review something that boosts your Style grade tremendously - How NOT to repeat yourself a million times in your writing.  Use the force, young Padawan.

Click here to find out.

When that's done, take our paraphrasing notes for today.  Those who are finished with the Volleyball video should have the introduction and body for their cooking show written.  Tomorrow?  The conclusion.  

It's easier than you think.

Many of us are writing cooking shows that all start the same way.

"Today, I'm going to show you how to make Fettuccine Alfredo.  Here are the ingredients."

We need to spice up our cooking shows.  Cheesy Dad joke aside, let's begin by reviewing script format.  Click here to go to Quizlet and match up the terms with their definitions.  When that's done, we'll visit the Cooking Show guidelines and review for Wednesday's quiz.  

Spend five minutes matching these answers up to open Monday's class session.  Click here.

​Need a refresher?  Watch this during work time.

What's the lesson for today?  A review from first semester for returning students.  It's one we forget easily, so take notes and we'll quiz on Tuesday.

Nope.  Someone just deleted the desktop shortcut.  Here's how to get it back.  Notes today.  Quiz tomorrow.

I spent five hours this weekend creating seven new accounts on eight new computers.  What I haven't done recently is checked to see if you have a project that's filmed and ready to edit, plus a completed video from the past two weeks.  I'll do that today.  

What I will also do for those who have nothing of their own to edit is to provide you with Volleyball footage from 2017.  Bored with sports?  Take a camera home and film any of the projects we've quizzed over a bajillion times.  Forget what they are or how to do them?  Hover over Video Projects, and click your favorite.  

The big thing to stress at this time of year is take a camera home and film your movies there. With ISTEP and everything else going on in the building, I can't stay after to work with every single group, nor do I want to see a bunch of pictures or videos taken here at JMS.  We're here eight hours a day.  We've reached the point in the term where it's on you to provide your own filming locations.

Every two weeks, a new movie should be filmed, and an old one should be ready to grade. Exceptions are made for those who I see working hard on a daily basis.  If I can't tell that you're doing anything, I won't be as open-minded.  Keep in mind that the last time I checked, 60 percent of us didn't make our own movie, and were totally depending on the teacher to keep us busy.

Nothing to do?  Grab my orange and white USB drive.  Drag Volley 2017 to your desktop. Once it's a thumbnail image, click the Illuminati Button for Hepler JMS, the name of the USB. Create a new video called Volley2017 in iMovie, then drag and drop the clip from your desktop to the new project, and edit.  
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For those of us working on Volleyball, here's a refresher of what to use and what not to use.