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Bullying Video 4

We finished the credits off with a quick song me and Kahlout wrote, so we would avoid copyright problems we had decided to do something of our own to avoid the complications and the crediting and etc. We grabbed a guitar off of Ms. Mandy's music room and wrote and composed a song in about 5 minutes, and recorded it on Mr. Jones's laptop. This wasn't as big of a problem as I thought it was, it only took one try to get the thing done and we were happy with what we had. With the credits finished off, we played the song during this and fixed up some transitions and scenes. All that's left is our narration.

Bullying Video 3

A final scene was added, where Hend is the victim of verbal abuse when she walks into the girl's bathroom. Holly and Doaa are seen talking about people, and Hend walks in when they suddenly go silent. They start sarcastically complimenting on their appearance, obviously trying hard not to laugh in a sarcastic attempt to be polite. As soon as Hend is seen walking off, Holly and Doaa are seen talking about her and commenting on her appearance, in a loud tone so that Hend hears it. Like the other two scenes, there are no bystanders and no scene that shows the same situation going well. Still, no real frustrations but I found that rather than using movie maker, iMovie saved all of the video files so we would not be losing any videos in the process of making the video. I was relieved to see this wasn't going to be a problem as this is my biggest issue with Windows Movie Maker. We also added a part with the text talking about what to do, for both the victim and the bully. We finished things off with the credits and will use the next lesson to put everything together finally.

Bullying Video 2

Today, we added an extra scene where Holly is seen walking in the foyer, where she runs into Hend and Doaa, who push her down and knock down the books she was holding. The camera then shows her pick up the books and walk off, saying nothing to the bullies and with a depressed look on her face. This is also a clear case of bullying because Hend and Doaa are seen laughing as they high-five each other as Holly looks down at the books she had dropped. This is a case of physical abuse, and again no bystanders interfere and Holly isn't helped. Again, the scene was put together well and we hadn't run into any real problems. We added some transitions and titles, but never put much effort into the transitions because that was something we wanted to save for the very last, as we wanted to get the hardest part out of the way first. Still no problems, and we're not having any frustrations.

Bullying Video

There has been a slight change of plans, and rather than working with my partner to complete my Digital Access project, I am now working with the group that is composing a video to support anti-bullying, Hend, Mohammed, Talal and Doaa have all recorded different videos and scenes of moments that portay serious verbal or physical abuse. What I had to do was help them take their recorded pieces and put it together as a final product/movie that would teach people that bullying was bad. We first took a scene, where Doaa is seen pointing a remote control to a TV, to show a television program with the word "Bullying" crossed out. This then cuts to each member of the group saying the words "Say no to bullying!", and it cuts to a scene where Kahlout is the bully and Talal is the victim. He pushes Talal around for his amusement, and it shows Talal continuously being bullied by him with no one interfering or helping. That is what we have so far. So far the project is going successfully. We haven't run into any frustrations and are so far being productive with our time.

Digital Access

Amna and I have been assigned a task to do a research project on Digital Access, which is a topic that talks about how some people will have certain access to technology that other would not. It also discusses the limitations of people who cannot afford to be able to use such technology, as well as organizations that work past this such as the One Laptop Per Child organization. We have collected our research and composed a page of information which can be found here:

http://digiteen09-1.flatclassroomproject.org/Digital+Access

This project is going very smoothly, and I believe I am caught up to work and the deadlines aren't challenging. I have not come across any frustration in completing the project.