Final Multimedia Project on Active Minds
This is my final project on the UNH organization Active Minds and the event Stand Against Silence. I'm sorry we couldn't view it in class today guys, my laptop crashed last week and parts of the audio got cut out when I tried uploading it this morning. I fixed the issue and it should be all set now. Let me know what you all think!
Thanks :)
Laura
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Rough Draft on Active Minds
Rough draft on Active Minds
It's a pretty rough draft right now. I still have three interviews to conduct this week, which will be video recorded so it won't just be stills. My final product will be significantly different from what I have now, and I plan on focusing the video more on the Stand Against Silence event and vigil that just happened because it's relevant and timely. I know the pictures don't exactly flow with the audio right now, but the two times I interviewed the speaker, Kevin Cannon, I thought I was going to focus the video solely on what Active Minds does rather than this event. I also just realized I forgot to incorporate his name into the video, but it will be on the final draft.
What I need help with: Do you guys think I should incorporate more statistics at the beginning, or would more than those 3 be too much? Do you think the music/video in general is too melodramatic, and if so do you have any recommendations to tone that down?
Thanks!
-Laura
It's a pretty rough draft right now. I still have three interviews to conduct this week, which will be video recorded so it won't just be stills. My final product will be significantly different from what I have now, and I plan on focusing the video more on the Stand Against Silence event and vigil that just happened because it's relevant and timely. I know the pictures don't exactly flow with the audio right now, but the two times I interviewed the speaker, Kevin Cannon, I thought I was going to focus the video solely on what Active Minds does rather than this event. I also just realized I forgot to incorporate his name into the video, but it will be on the final draft.
What I need help with: Do you guys think I should incorporate more statistics at the beginning, or would more than those 3 be too much? Do you think the music/video in general is too melodramatic, and if so do you have any recommendations to tone that down?
Thanks!
-Laura
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Progress for Final Project on Active Minds
So far I have spoken with the person who started Active Minds, Kevin Cannon, and he is going to ask if anyone would like to be interviewed for my project on Tuesday at the group’s meeting. I am going to interview Kevin this week or next on why he started the group. I have also viewed footage of the event “To Write Love on Her Arms” held by Active Minds last semester and am going to incorporate that into my video, along with photos of the event. The beginning of my video will consist of statistics about suicide and depression. I found this info and these statistics from the following websites:
http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html#2005
http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=04ea1254-bd31-1fa3-c549d77e6ca6aa37
http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/suicide-stats/
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/statistics/aag.html
http://youngadults.about.com/od/healthandsafety/qt/suicide.htm
http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/Depression-Lack-of-Social-Support-Trigger-Suicidal-Thoughts-in-College-Students.aspx
http://www.tnhonline.com/2.3536/unh-reflects-on-rising-college-suicide-rate-1.396155
http://www.upliftprogram.com/depression_stats.html
http://www.depressionstatistics.org/
http://depressionhelpspot.com/depression_statistics.html
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/09/02/statistics-about-college-depression/
http://www.teendepression.org/stats/depression-in-college-students-statistics/
In the next couple weeks I plan on interviewing Kevin and others from Active Minds and starting my video in iMovie including a black backdrop for the statistics. I am considering doing voice recordings for part of my project to play while the statistics are being shown. I am going to wait to incorporate the rest of the footage because I want to see how it’s going to transition smoothly first.
http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html#2005
http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=04ea1254-bd31-1fa3-c549d77e6ca6aa37
http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/suicide-stats/
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/statistics/aag.html
http://youngadults.about.com/od/healthandsafety/qt/suicide.htm
http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/Depression-Lack-of-Social-Support-Trigger-Suicidal-Thoughts-in-College-Students.aspx
http://www.tnhonline.com/2.3536/unh-reflects-on-rising-college-suicide-rate-1.396155
http://www.upliftprogram.com/depression_stats.html
http://www.depressionstatistics.org/
http://depressionhelpspot.com/depression_statistics.html
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/09/02/statistics-about-college-depression/
http://www.teendepression.org/stats/depression-in-college-students-statistics/
In the next couple weeks I plan on interviewing Kevin and others from Active Minds and starting my video in iMovie including a black backdrop for the statistics. I am considering doing voice recordings for part of my project to play while the statistics are being shown. I am going to wait to incorporate the rest of the footage because I want to see how it’s going to transition smoothly first.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
How to play the intro to Blink-182's "What's My Age Again"
Sorry about the ending, it got cut off by a few seconds when I was transferring the video to my computer!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7 Days in Photos of My Roommate
Sorry about the not-so-great quality, my camera died so I had to use my phone for this.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Man Behind the Unicycle
By Laura Henderson and Vin Spadafora
The University of New Hampshire faculty holds a number of individuals who are talented at many different things. Some are experienced in technology, others in business or the arts. But there’s one UNH staff member who’s skilled at something no other is- unicycling.
Bruno Pape, a Software Engineer for the Space Science Center at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, can be seen riding his unicycle across the UNH campus from Morse Hall up and around Main Street down to B Lot. He sports red suspenders and a straw hat as he juggles pins on a single wheel, making him a memorable celebrity at the Durham, N.H. college.
“I love everybody’s reaction,” he said. “Everybody’s been really supportive and it makes people smile.”
But unicycling wasn’t always so easy for Pape. The engineer started the hobby seven years ago after purchasing a unicycle for his youngest daughter.
“She can never figure out what she wants for Christmas, so one year I said, ‘How about a unicycle?’,” Pape said.
He then purchased one for himself as well, and the two learned together. It took Pape two months to get the hang of it.
“I learned in an office building using the cubicle partitions to hold onto,” he said.
That summer, Pape started unicycling around the UNH campus before adjusting his routine when students returned in the fall.
“I rode around in the summer and I had no problem, and then it was ‘Oh my gosh, students. This is dangerous!’,” he said. Pape also had a few interactions with police in the early learning stages.
“Initially when I started riding around campus, I had policemen hollering at me to ride in the bicycle lane,” he said. “That was when I was more out of control. I’m guessing now, they probably wouldn’t care if I did that.”
While he’s never had any accidents involving other people, he’s had his share of bumps and bruises along the way.
“My major crash happened when I was unicycling with my daughter at Moharimet School,” he said. “I was trying to scrape the mud off my shoes while I was riding, and one of my feet slipped off the pedal, and I went right on my face.”
On another occasion in front of Holloway Commons, he was going too fast downhill and had to jump off into a snowbank. Though it is slightly more dangerous than other forms of transportation, Pape hasn’t had any major injuries.
This streak of luck continued even when Pape began juggling pins as well.
“Our friends were cleaning out their garage and they said, ‘here, learn to juggle these and ride your unicycle,’” he said. Six months later, he was proficient enough to add the pins to his routine.
Although Pape imagines he won’t add another feature to his routine, he has had suggestions from friends.
“People want me to light something on fire,” he said, chuckling.
Pape isn’t seriously considering lighting something on fire while on his unicycle, but finds the thought amusing. Instead, there’s one thing he can always hone in unicycling:
“You can always get better at it.”
The University of New Hampshire faculty holds a number of individuals who are talented at many different things. Some are experienced in technology, others in business or the arts. But there’s one UNH staff member who’s skilled at something no other is- unicycling.
Bruno Pape, a Software Engineer for the Space Science Center at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, can be seen riding his unicycle across the UNH campus from Morse Hall up and around Main Street down to B Lot. He sports red suspenders and a straw hat as he juggles pins on a single wheel, making him a memorable celebrity at the Durham, N.H. college.
“I love everybody’s reaction,” he said. “Everybody’s been really supportive and it makes people smile.”
But unicycling wasn’t always so easy for Pape. The engineer started the hobby seven years ago after purchasing a unicycle for his youngest daughter.
“She can never figure out what she wants for Christmas, so one year I said, ‘How about a unicycle?’,” Pape said.
He then purchased one for himself as well, and the two learned together. It took Pape two months to get the hang of it.
“I learned in an office building using the cubicle partitions to hold onto,” he said.
That summer, Pape started unicycling around the UNH campus before adjusting his routine when students returned in the fall.
“I rode around in the summer and I had no problem, and then it was ‘Oh my gosh, students. This is dangerous!’,” he said. Pape also had a few interactions with police in the early learning stages.
“Initially when I started riding around campus, I had policemen hollering at me to ride in the bicycle lane,” he said. “That was when I was more out of control. I’m guessing now, they probably wouldn’t care if I did that.”
While he’s never had any accidents involving other people, he’s had his share of bumps and bruises along the way.
“My major crash happened when I was unicycling with my daughter at Moharimet School,” he said. “I was trying to scrape the mud off my shoes while I was riding, and one of my feet slipped off the pedal, and I went right on my face.”
On another occasion in front of Holloway Commons, he was going too fast downhill and had to jump off into a snowbank. Though it is slightly more dangerous than other forms of transportation, Pape hasn’t had any major injuries.
This streak of luck continued even when Pape began juggling pins as well.
“Our friends were cleaning out their garage and they said, ‘here, learn to juggle these and ride your unicycle,’” he said. Six months later, he was proficient enough to add the pins to his routine.
Although Pape imagines he won’t add another feature to his routine, he has had suggestions from friends.
“People want me to light something on fire,” he said, chuckling.
Pape isn’t seriously considering lighting something on fire while on his unicycle, but finds the thought amusing. Instead, there’s one thing he can always hone in unicycling:
“You can always get better at it.”
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Style Link
http://current.com/shows/vanguard/93511726_arming-the-mexican-cartels-vanguard-trailer.htm
I would like to use a style of investigative journalism in this class.
I would like to use a style of investigative journalism in this class.
Story ideas
1) Story on Pharmacy robberies in Rochester, NH. I wrote about this issue in Advanced Newswriting, and during the reporting process I kept thinking the story would flow better as a video. This story lends itself to multimedia by giving the audience a visual of the reactions from sources about the issue. This can make the impact of the issue more clear.
2) A community at UNH that does not usually get the spotlight. This story lends itself to multimedia by showing its audience how an organization or group makes progress on its purpose and by visually characterizing the people in the community. This would be better suited for a multimedia setting because a visual of how people work together is more descriptive and detailed than a written story.
3) Story on the views of UNH students about the current presidential election and the diversity in political beliefs at our college. This lends a hand to multimedia by showing how involved students are in this election and displaying their views with their emotions. This gives the audience an idea of how some students are passionate about politics and invested in the upcoming election and how some students are not.
2) A community at UNH that does not usually get the spotlight. This story lends itself to multimedia by showing its audience how an organization or group makes progress on its purpose and by visually characterizing the people in the community. This would be better suited for a multimedia setting because a visual of how people work together is more descriptive and detailed than a written story.
3) Story on the views of UNH students about the current presidential election and the diversity in political beliefs at our college. This lends a hand to multimedia by showing how involved students are in this election and displaying their views with their emotions. This gives the audience an idea of how some students are passionate about politics and invested in the upcoming election and how some students are not.
Friday, February 10, 2012
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