Tech in the Bay

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This is the 3rd and final show that the summer interns produced. Hosted by Edoardo De Armas and Wes Rapaport. Features Lutz Henckels, CEO of SyntheSys, Bob Schneeveis, Inventor, and members of the Palo Alto High School Robotics team.

Media Center Tape Library PSA

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PSA about the re-organization of the Media Center's Tape Library. Produced by Wes Rapaport

Local Senior Shines at Olympics: 6 Golds for Daniela

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64 year old Daniela Barnea competed in her first Senior Olympics in August 2009. The Midpeninsula Community Media Center Interns. The Media Center presents a series called Local Focus. This feature is the first of a sequence of segments from the 2009 Summer National Senior Games held at Stanford University.

Dominoes

They aren't kidding when they say one bad thing leads to another like dominoes...

I came in to the media center to finish my PSA about global warming and I filmed with my friend, Hannah. She was really good, except when I went into edit, it wouldn't log and capture. I went and got Edo to help me [again] but after 30 minutes of fiddling, he told me that I should use a camera. I tried but that didn't work either so I went and asked him again. He told me after another 10 minutes that I should just come to the classroom. I went and edited from the classroom. It went okay, until I realized that I had to convert after effects to final cut pro which took forever. The graphics also came out kinda fuzzy and I was kinda disappointed that it looked so fuzzy. :/ but I edited everything... After that I went to my music lesson and came back to finish adding the music then noticed that it my whole PSA was offline now. And I tried to get it online, but it wouldn't go no matter what I did. Ugh, so I just added the music and told myself that someone else could put it online later... Now I'm going to try putting it back online...

On the bright side, at least I finished my PSA on global warming. It's kinda weird; it features a girl who notices the lights are flickering and then what happens is that she runs out and looks out the window. A bunch of global warming pictures flicker by and then the sun glares down upon the camera. She runs down the steps and then the screen changes to smoke and it says "Please Save Our Planet."

I hope that this will work :D because I really care about the topic of global warming. So that's all for now cause - :'( school is starting which means less time here!

The Games

So while I was in DC, Edoardo, Camille, and Eleanor went to the Senior Games with Karen, and did some amazing work. Today, we found a video that the Senior Games people put up on Youtube. Take a look at the first shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSuwnPdkWgA

It's Edoardo! EPIC!

Anyway, I'm working Digiquest Summer Camp, and that's fun, working with the kids.

For now,

Wes

Okay - a continuation from the last post.
I got Edoardo to get me another fire wire. Public Access 4 is apparently the one Danielle always told us needed another type of fire wire. So then it finally worked and I found my project with a bunch of mini clips about cues and tools and other things. I managed to salvage all of the use-able footage - which took forever because my friend had fooled around so much before. I had to cut all of that out. It took a while, but I finally got a good how-to video that I could finally save and put away.
How-to videos aren't easy. They take time and work and editing and pre-planning.
The next time you see one of those cheesy how to bake cookies segments, don't laugh. That should have taken a lot of work and a lot of preparing. I know - I've tried it myself now.
But I had fun filming and editing it.
So until next time!

I guess I have several things to say after being at camp for three weeks with only 1 day to come and work at the media center.
The first change I have to deal with is the fact that Danielle will no longer be here at the media center. The first time I came to the media center from class, I met Danielle and she really made my stay here enjoyable so I signed up for the internship here and I got to know her. It seems as if just when I got to know her well and really enjoyed my summer here - she's leaving. It's really sad; I loved seeing her here and she made making mistakes okay and doing well even better. So I just wanted to thank her for helping me so much and tell her to have a great time at NY. I know she'll do GREAT there. :D
The next thing I have to deal with is the fact that it's my first day back in a while (not really) I had Danielle's goodbye party and the work day on August 4th where I filmed my how-to video. However, it feels like it and it also feels as if nothing is going right. I walked into the media center and tried to access Public Access Drive Number 4 and it wouldn't work. So I got Joel to try fixing it - and so he plugged it in and restarted the computer. That didn't work. So my whole how-to video is gone down the drain with the hard drive... I better go get someone to try to access this for me, because all of my work is on it.
I'll tell you how it goes after wards. I hope just better than this!