This week we began to do interviews with various people in order to gain an incite to some of the reasons behind why people decided to install solar panels on their homes or even around the UH campus. Our first visit was with the dean of the Shidler Business College who was nice enough to not only give us an interview but took us up to a place where we could see the solar panels that were installed on a roof of one of the class rooms.
A few days later on Saturday we went up to a solar open house that was being hosted bu Sunetric. This company provides the installation of solar panels as well as a energy plan to go along with them. Luckily for us, the owner of the home was also in so we were able to interview both the home owner (gained lots of good incite about home solar installation) as well as the representative from Sunetric who told us more of the statistical side of the story.
As a next step we are waiting to hear back from the dean in Saunders Hall as well as the dean in Sakamaki Hall. Hopefully we will be able to get an interview with both people and hopefully be able to gain more incite as to why college campuses are installing this panels. Also this week we will most likely begin research on the PACE bill which I believe supports the use of solar panels on homes in return for government incentives.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Final Energy Pong Video
This past week I went back and reedited the energy pong ver. 2.0 video to incorporate the following changes:
1. The volume of the transition music needed to be toned down
2. Add subtitles when the rules and objectives are being described
3. Add a link to an external site where the rules can be viewed
4. Added a summary section to the end of the movie
5. Fixed various misinformation in some of the rules
Because we are out of time for this project, version 3 is the final version and can be found here.
Next Project
The next project that the content design group will undertake is the making of a video promoting solar energy. We will explore current solar projects in Hawaii such as the solar open houses and we will also explore how the University of Hawaii has begun to implement solar energy.
As a first step this weekend our group will visit one of the solar open houses and hopefully get a few interview with some people there.
1. The volume of the transition music needed to be toned down
2. Add subtitles when the rules and objectives are being described
3. Add a link to an external site where the rules can be viewed
4. Added a summary section to the end of the movie
5. Fixed various misinformation in some of the rules
Because we are out of time for this project, version 3 is the final version and can be found here.
Next Project
The next project that the content design group will undertake is the making of a video promoting solar energy. We will explore current solar projects in Hawaii such as the solar open houses and we will also explore how the University of Hawaii has begun to implement solar energy.
As a first step this weekend our group will visit one of the solar open houses and hopefully get a few interview with some people there.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Energy Pong, 2nd Filming
This week in our weekly meeting we presented our first version of the energy pong video to our professor. After viewing the video we were told that we needed to fix the following problems:
1. The objective section of the video was incorrect and the narration needed to be revised
2. The bracket section of our video had too many floors
3. Some of the footage mentioned in the script wasn't in the video (forgot to narrate them)
4. The video needed to have team members from both genders
In order to fix these problems we decided that it was best to reuse as much footage from the first filming as possible and then to refilm the rest of the footage on Wed. and Thurs. so that we could send out the movie to be reviewed by the rest of the class.
After sending it out to the class we received a good amount of feedback and from that feedback we decided which changes could be incorporated and which couldn't. For the next version of the video we have decided to change the following:
1. Show pictures of the items needed to play energy pong
2. Tone down the volume of the transition music
3. Display a link to a wiki with the rules of the game for those who forget a rule(s) and don't want to watch the video again
4. Possibly add text to the video when a rule is described
5. Redo the narration for what happens when 2 balls land in the same cup (current narration is missing some critical details)
6. Add a summary section to the end of the movie
Lastly the current version of our video can be found here.
1. The objective section of the video was incorrect and the narration needed to be revised
2. The bracket section of our video had too many floors
3. Some of the footage mentioned in the script wasn't in the video (forgot to narrate them)
4. The video needed to have team members from both genders
In order to fix these problems we decided that it was best to reuse as much footage from the first filming as possible and then to refilm the rest of the footage on Wed. and Thurs. so that we could send out the movie to be reviewed by the rest of the class.
After sending it out to the class we received a good amount of feedback and from that feedback we decided which changes could be incorporated and which couldn't. For the next version of the video we have decided to change the following:
1. Show pictures of the items needed to play energy pong
2. Tone down the volume of the transition music
3. Display a link to a wiki with the rules of the game for those who forget a rule(s) and don't want to watch the video again
4. Possibly add text to the video when a rule is described
5. Redo the narration for what happens when 2 balls land in the same cup (current narration is missing some critical details)
6. Add a summary section to the end of the movie
Lastly the current version of our video can be found here.
Monday, April 5, 2010
First Shoot
This weekend our group began the filming of our video documentary for our "energy pong" game documentation. For those who don't know what energy pong is, its a variation of the drinking game beer pong. If you don't know what that is, please check this link out on how to play.
The shooting of the movie took place in the dorm Noelani I tower. Originally we were going to shoot in one of the freshmen towers, but I was told by a friend that we were unable to bring anything beer pong related into the dorm as it is a dry dorm. So with that in mind we were forced to change our shooting location.
The shooting itself took a little bit of time as we had to constantly retry shots when one of the actors missed sinking a ball in a cup or just the usual forgetting of lines. However in the end we managed to get all the shots that we needed with the exception of the shot that involved a female (by that time all the girls were gone).
Tonight we will get together as a group, review the footage, see if we are missing any footage and then begin the editing process (adding title and credits, transitions, ect).
The shooting of the movie took place in the dorm Noelani I tower. Originally we were going to shoot in one of the freshmen towers, but I was told by a friend that we were unable to bring anything beer pong related into the dorm as it is a dry dorm. So with that in mind we were forced to change our shooting location.
The shooting itself took a little bit of time as we had to constantly retry shots when one of the actors missed sinking a ball in a cup or just the usual forgetting of lines. However in the end we managed to get all the shots that we needed with the exception of the shot that involved a female (by that time all the girls were gone).
Tonight we will get together as a group, review the footage, see if we are missing any footage and then begin the editing process (adding title and credits, transitions, ect).
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