The Goals of a Yoda

In my time of being a Yoda in Media Magic, I vow to be an excellent mentor to the Padawan I have been assigned to. I will use my great wisdom to guide my student to greatness. Probably once a week or two weeks, I will ask my Padawan a series of question about what they have learned how they have learned it and what do they think about it.

I joined the Children's Media Project since I was in the seventh grade. I am now a senior in high school and my fondness for the Children's Media Project is immense. I will be staring The Culinary Institute of America this September and my excitement for it is great; once I graduate, I wish to open my very own restaurant and use my media making skills to advertise the wonderful food establishment I will be opening up.

Tyler's super cool totally awesome first blog post. Woot!!!

This is me, posting on the internet. This is the first day of Media Magic, and I am so excited to be back here. I missed out on the fall session, but now i'm back, excited and ready to go. My goals for this spring are to further expand my expertise in video production, as well as help younger people learn the process. I also want to learn how to blog... this is probably going to stink, considering it's my first post, but hey... It's okay to make mistakes!!!
You can thank Mary-Ellen for that one. 

My history at CMP. Hmmm... well, I started out with the DROP-TV program in the summer of 2011. I wanted to do media magic that fall, but some issues prevented me from doing so. I did DROP-TV again in the summer of 2012, and i'm here now, doing Media Magic in the spring of 2013. I hope to be back in DROP-TV for this summer, it would be awesome!

How will I know if my young Jedi is on track? Hmmm... well. I assume they're going to be like me when I first started... very curious to know how everything works and the process of film making. I hope to walk my Jedi through this process and teach them the steps involved in making a totally awesome movie!

My goal for being a Yoda is what I said above, just to teach a new generation of young filmmakers the process and how to do it all. I remember being new to all of it, and the knowledge I have gained here at CMP have helped me grow and change. 

I would like to learn more how to use Adobe After Effects. Thank Mike for that one. 

Being A Yoda!

Charles here! I'm back for another year at CMP. For this year, I'll have my own mentee to teach them about the world of creating films and media. My goal as a Yoda is to teach my young one the ways of CMP's filming techniques and styles. Also, I wish to gain more leadership skills because I want to own my own graphic design business. I also want my Jedi (the children we're taking under our wing) to stay on the right track for learning. I'll know I'm doing my job right when he or she will begin reminding me  on the steps of brainstorming and flimmaking! Come to think of it, I'm been here for a couple years now! When I was first here, all I did was sketch on Ryan's tablet and stay to myself. Now, I running up and down these halls like the wind when I'm at work. If I use what I learned here correctly, I can end up being the next Walt Disney! 

Being a Yoda

So i upgraded into a Yoda after some time as a regular Jedi (average joe) and I think my personal goals as a Yoda is to be a great teacher. Notice i said great, not good, I wanna become a better film maker while learning how to teach more efficiently. I believe one the best ways to ensure and know if my Jedi is on track is to ask if they need a quick recap on anything they may have missed or never really grasped while I was explaining the techniques and tricks of the trade. Man I think I got really lucky to get a Yoda role because my co-Yodas have few years more of experience than me . I started a year and a half ago when my cousin charles told me about CMP and I thought "wow, a place where i can hang out with friends regardless of how we look or talk". A place where I can actually be myself and not have to go through the usual facade of my day. I think I have come a very long way and ill be somewhere hopefully in the near future here as a intern.

                                           -Billique Smith

                                 11/13

Today, two groups created experimental videos. with one requirement- it must be outside. with that information, the groups brainstormed ideas. My group's video was about a man who falls out of a tree, hallucinates, becomes normal, and walks away. From my view it was good, but we could've worked more on the way the scene looked on screen. because in reality, it looked really good. but when we saw it on the projector it didn't fully tell the what the story was about. Alltogether, it was a good start to the week.

Today everybody recorded a mini video about 30 seconds long. when we got back inside we went over the videos to see what wedid wrong and how to fix It. I was the photographer during this video taking pictures of the progress they have done. The video was about a leaf falling to the ground and smacking somebody in the face. The other video was about a box doing different scenes with the students.

Media Magic Camera Heads

         Today at Medic Magic we started discussing how to use cameras and tripods. Before the camera lessons we played a game of celebrity heads. A game involving a sticky note or something of someone stuck to your head and you have to ask questions to figure out who or what you are headMike and Ryan discussed using camera and the potential problems that a little mistake such as an unbalanced tripod. Today was an over all fun day and I cannot wait to come back tomorrow.

-Al Edwards