Class #4

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

My group has made a lot of progress so far in our portfolios. Our biggest plan is to make a music video for a song that my fellow group-mate, Corbin, is getting professionally recorded. We already have a general idea for our script made up, which is going to be finalized within the next week. My role for this portion of our portfolio will be mainly co-editing the video. I have not yet had experience editing any kind of film in the past, so I am very excited to learn about the process.

We also have started working on four of the more difficult assignments within the portfolio. We have been divided into groups to research different portions of the pod-cast. We are going to be doing a tour of Main street in Unionville, Markham. I think that this location will give us a lot to talk about given the number of events that take place in this area. The website and timeline will be combined. Some of the people in our group have had experience putting together websites before; so, once the rest of us come up with a timeline, we are hoping to collaborate assignments. Finally, there has been a lot of discussion about what to do for the activism project. Initially, our ideas would have involved a lot of complication. Therefore, we decided to simplify the plan. We made mutual decision to focus the activism project on Darfur and the genocide that is currently going on in this region. The main objective presently is to send UN peacekeepers into Sudan to help the situation; so far that has not be implemented. I feel very strongly about this issue, so I hope that we will be able to make a difference by at least increasing awareness of this tragedy.