fiona bring ur computer in so we can get the music

Can we change the pictures on the blog! please

the documentary

hey guys, i have already started the documentary so we can record on it. however, its in iMovie so we need to play it on mrs lathrope's comp (i have already asked her, its ok).........also does anyone no how to get an iMovie file on a flash drive as an iMovie file not as a movie (if not we can record it straight onto my comp, only question=when?)

Does anyone have some intense music that could be used?

film

is the interview a film or is it text i also have some time lapse video that we can use for when were narrating anything we need for filming just let me no and ill do it so yah and WERE R THE VIDEO CLIPS???

I wrote a ton on the dock so stop saying im not doing anything guys

Cheers
~Nikko

do we have to film the whole thing today?

sh

Cell phone

Hello people. I kinda feel if we give eachothers cell phone numbers we will b able to communicate better. i Honestly have no idea whats happening with meeting at someones house for tommorow haha. It's nonsense to be checking the blog every 10 min, so with having eachothers phone numbers it's easier and faster. I know my house is available tommorow anytime for doing the storybord skitt. Its really easy to get to as well. My number is 925-818-3218

Fiona: How do I contact your dad/ his friend

So now we are meeting thursday?

shoul i do a scene about the trails of genocide like the conviction because i have alot of notes on that

Okay guys so does Wedensday or Thursday work for everyone to come over to my house to work on the documentary?

Did anybody find books for reasearch in our classroom?

invite

Can I please get an invite for the google docs on what we want to do in the group and I agree with nikko and we should meet

website

the bell rang just as i gt to this website so someone should check it out

sorry

Sorry i havent been able to post i have had alot o trouble with it

Fiona, that would be awesome if you could ask your dad to contact a professor or what not...one of us could interview him!!!!!!!!

So I am kinda thinking since we can all edit and contribute to the google docs, we should just add what we think and maybe put our names by what we say. Then once everybody says what they want to, we could all edit it and come up with a plan we agree on, wether that means meeting at someones house or contact with a cell phone. This way we wouldn't need to settle any disputes before we start making the clips.
That's my 2 cents.

Documentary

Hey there are some awesome videos about rwanda on youtube from pbs and there might b some peopl my dad could find from a collage that study african history but idk so yeah tht might b an option

Folder on Desktop!

Hi ok there is now a desktop folder for anything you wanna save on there.

It's on the computer with the sign for our group.

My apologies

My apologies for not checking on this for several days... guuuh always sidetracked.
However! I can prove to you I have made up for my lack of blog participation by saying that I am pretty much finished with my research!!!
I don't know about everyone else, but I got plenty of notes on:

• The Genocide itself
• The aftermath
• General info about Rwanda (the country, location, customs, etc.)

What else is being done for research?

Google docs

Okay guys so I created the google docs, i just did copy and paste from the link she gave us on school loop. Can you all give me your e-mails so i can add you all?

Okay we need to start our plan. Miriam and I are in the same class so we can start tomorrow. One of us needs to create the google docs storyboard template (I can do that if necessary). Lets get to it.

PS: Please start checking blog regularly!!!!

ummm

Hey, I dnt want to be "that person" but do we have a plan yet???

links

To places that are reliable (found through infotrac):
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C16%2529rwandan%2Bgenocide%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T001&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=SRC-4&searchId=R1&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=lafa56029rpa&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2CNone%2C16%29rwandan+genocide%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ2359070058&docType=GSRC

more to be added later...!

info cite: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-rwandan-genocide

Great site for background...type in the URL below

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

fail-my first post didn't work :(

Anyway- it think we should make our documentary for children our age because high schoolers might be too advanced. Also, since this subject of genocide is slightly grim, I think it would be a little over heads of kids too much younger than us (not to mention, it might scare elementary schoolers).

Also sine we are doing a documentary, i think we should stick closely to the subject so our video doesn't get random. However, I still think that it is an option to branch off a little but not too much.

As far as expertise goes, I can work a vide camera and I have two. I can also work iMovie but I'm not that good with video editing.

In ways of resources, I will look for some and post them as I find them.

Okay I fixed the colors. And, yes, Christian, I had to be rid of your hut picture after all... Alas. Hopefully this will work a little better.

And I found this picture:

Which is like a modern-day wanted sign for creepy guys that did things... well, things frowned upon. Perhaps if further research is completed, we can include this and information on these people?

Hey guys, I'm pretty good with cameras/videocameras so I could do some of that. Also, Miriam and I know how to use iMovie from the booktrailer project. We could use that to do our documentary. We could show pictures, do voice overs and what not.

About Hotel Rwanda, I can get it and we can watch it at my house if we want. It's really up to you guys if you want to watch it by yourselves or not. Hotel Rwanda would be a great start out gathering information because it gives awesome background on the event.

I agree with Mary and think we should present our blog to a maturer audiance do to the gruesome topic. If we try to make it for elementary kids we would not be able to really describe the event. Start gathering information and lets do this thing!

So apparently since I'm admin I get to change colors and pictures and stuff. Woo! I also know some basic HTML for coding stuff... font colors, backgrounds, headers, other complicated stuff to make the layout nice.
If you guys find anything for the background/color scheme/whatever you can post something and I'll try to acquiesce to your request...!

Christian had a great idea that we should watch Hotel Rwanda to get a better idea about what we're studying. I guess wait for him to say something about it... he only spoke to me briefly about it.

Other than that, I have nothing else to say. So consider this to be a conclusion, I guess.

Okay so guys I think that we should make our documentary more for middle school kids. I think we should do this because younger children would not really pay attention and it is also a horrible thing that happened that may scare them. If we made it for older children, we would have to make it really professional and informational. Not many people even know that the genocide happened so I think that middle schoolers would benefit from learning about it.

We should probably give details about the cause and effect on the genocide and also the background about the people and country itself. We should include their way of life and possibly history about the tribe. Also, we should talk about who helped out and who it started with.

Who knows a lot about cameras, and just documentaries in general. I can write scripts and such pretty well and I work well with people. Does anyone have any job that they really wanted to do our know a lot about?

We should probably start working on getting information about our topic and finding some good websites to use. Also, it would be helpful to get some books and pictures.