Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Lauren, Nikki, and Mike's Blog

(by Lauren B.)
For our first assignment, to make a three-minute film without sound, we chose to film a “day in the life” style short about Mike’s beloved tortoise, King Koopa. This project provided us with many valuable lessons: the importance of using a story board, how to do in-camera editing, the challenge of working with live animals (which Mike and I have some experience with), how much you really can convey with out sound, and…. that we really should have been using a tripod. In addition this project also provided us the opportunity to work together on a project as a team before we start the big project.
Speaking of our big project—"Agri-tourism in Orange County," we are very excited to do some filming this weekend at Tanaka farms! This weekend we plan to visit the Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Patch! There we hope to see some fine Orange County agri-tourism, get some practice on the new cameras, AND… maybe buy some pumpkins! More on what we find next week!

2 comments:

JSteaffens said...

Is it "agri-tourism" or "agro-tourism", I always assumed "agro-tourism", but I could be wrong, or either could be fine..
Also, I can't wait to hear about the pumpkin patch this weekend. Hope you write about it here.

Jessica

Lauren B. said...

I think it is "agri-tourism" because it is agriculture, not "agroculture." But... I must say that agro-tourism flows more naturally off the tongue. Pumpkin picking was fantastic.