Part One

 

        My biggest struggle during the making of this documentary was,  the software used for making the video kept messing with my audio, I'd place it where and the video maker would move it around in random spot, it made me very angry also conveying my thesis through the documentary was a struggle. Where we started off with the thesis being that the Singletary Center was very popular and we wanted to see how it grew in popularity, we later found that, among UK students, it wasn't popular at all. This was probably for the best, considering that conveying the Singletary Centers' popularity would have been much harder than show how it was under appreciated. I am most proud of how we put all of our documentary together, at the previewing of the documentary's, most of them before us got a lot of feedback, after our documentary was done we didn't get a hand up until, Ms. Chichi commented then we got maybe 5-10 comments and feed back after that. At first I thought that was bad, then I realized that if they didn't have any feedback on how we could improve our documentary, then they didn't see anything wrong with it, and that was very good and made me proud. I was also proud of the theme song that played in the intro and end  because I would hear other singing it or singing along with it and it went together with the videos very well.

         I would have changed the program we used to create the documentary, simply so we could have made some of the video clips volume up, and had better effects and transitions. I was responsible for filming, taking pictures, the audio placement, the theme song that played in the introduction and credits, while Shawnice got the names of the people we interviewed and wrote them down, I put them in the credits and credited the You Tube channels I got the videos clips from, finding the You Tube video clips, the section of pictures of the Art Museum and the interview that went with it (the women who gave us the interview didn't want to be on camera and so I recorded her and put pictures of the Art museum with it to go along with what she said) and the second Q and A session about how many times the students come to the Singletary center. My group got along well together, we both did our fair share of work and listened to each others opinions and put everything together in the proper places through careful planning and deliberation.

 

 

                                                      Part two

 WRD 110 helped me to learn where and how to find the resources I need to use to conduct research.I am also able to think of more in depth questions to go along with my research topic.  I think I am more capable to present an argument because of this class due to all the practice I had in presenting arguments on short notices and brain storming them quickly. It also has become easier to present my argument in front of my peers than it was before I took WRD 111. When I first came to WRD 110 I didn’t know what visual rhetoric was, now I do know it is and I can recognize it fairly well, due to Mr. Owen explaining it to us a few times and using it in our documentary. I do believe I grew as a speaker; it is much, much easier for me to give a presentation in front of a group than it had ever been before. I'm a shy and introverted person and speaking in front of many people had always made me feel uneasy, it still does just not nearly as much. Making the documentary was my favorite aspect of the course. It helped me to grow research skills, speaking skills, and gain a better knowledge of creating video. I know where to go and what resources I can use to find information I need. I learned how to use the William T Library, and writing center as well as discovering that I can save everything on a drive so I never loss any important documentation.   Because we had to go around and ask random students and staff member of U.K questions for our documentary, I was able to get into habit of speaking louder and clearer to others ( I have a quiet voice so unless I raise it, it can be hard to hear what I say ) due to having to present and speak to others much more than I would in my normal day to day life. Considering how I will most definitely have to give a presentation in class My least favorite aspect was talking in front of the class so much because I really hate doing it, however it helped me to grow as a student and person so I don't really have a least favorite aspect.