Intro Blog | Final Task

    I want to mention that my year in media studies so far was an great experience. I learned so many new terms and new ways to edit my videos during my time. I've been editing for years now and I just learned what a split screen is and I was amazed by it. I really enjoyed my time in the class and I'm kind of sad that this will be my final introduction blog.

    My name is Rashawn J Granderson, I am 16 years old (turning 17 on April) and I am in the 11th grade doing the AICE Media Studies course at Fort Lauderdale High School. I love to edit videos as that was one of my main goals of accomplishing since I was little kid and I've grown so much from what I've been doing before. I started out making short edits of my favorite anime with music over them called Anime Music Videos (AMVs) to making short films for this class and ideas for me and my friends to do.

    The previous two projects made me realize somethings about how I work with things and how to run production. Criticisms are always necessary when it comes to wanting to improve at anything, its just how I handle it, that was why I asked for everyone I showed my work to their true and fully honest feelings about it and there were some positives and negatives that came by from it. 

    I have Sony HD Handycam HDR-CX240 fully ready to be used for this final project since I want this to be my most professional looking final I can make it be. This camera can record up to 60fps and has a 54 times clear image zoom. I've used it to record my time at Washington DC during my 8th grade year and it took some extremely clean images.

    I want this final to be something that I put all my effort and heart into instead of a quick and easy grade. I want to feel complete and whole with the work I put in as I feel like this could be something that could awaken more creative genius.

    In general, I am in love with this class and the work that I get to do for it. Not everyday you get to be in a class where you can make films with your friends. The best parts come from the post-production as that is where the magic is put in and where all the best effects are put in. I am really excited for this final and hoping to see how challenging it is. I hope this will an amazing and by far my greatest experience in this class. I am also hoping that the final result will be mind blowing out of this world.