“Hope 4PA” Version 1.0 + Storyboards & Script

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Version 1.0

I still have so much to do to this video. It’s a work in progress!!!

Script

I didn’t actually write out a script for this video because of the manner in which I had shot it, but I did write a list of questions for my interviewees:

JOE DESCALA

  • Tell me your story. What brought you here? What started all of this?
  • What is 4PA? Is it a non-profit? How does it work? What all do you do?
  • What is the process of cleaning up a site? Where does all of the garbage go?
  • How has the community responded to your efforts?
  • Have you encountered any hurdles or setbacks throughout all of this?
  • What drives you to get up every day and go out there to do what you do?
  • Is the organization growing?
  • I think everyone in this city very much appreciates what you and your crew are out there doing, but what do you think the root of all of this is? What do you think we can do to address that?
  • What is your vision for the future of 4PA? What is your end-goal with the organization?
  • What can our viewers do if they would like to help with the effort?

ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE (Optional)

  • Tell me your story. What led you to become a part of 4PA?
  • What is your role within the organization?
  • What is your vision for the future of 4PA?

THEO

  • Tell me your story. What led you to become a part of 4PA? What is your role here?
  • What’s a typical clean-up patrol day look like for you?
  • What do you like about doing this? Is it rewarding?

DALTON

  • Tell me your story. What led you to become a part of 4PA? What is your role here?
  • What do you like about doing this? Is it rewarding?

ANY VOLUNTEER WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE (Optional but at least one would be good)

  • What led you to want to volunteer with 4PA?
  • What do you like about doing this? Is it rewarding?

BILL HERMANN

  • Who are you? What company are you from?
  • What led you to want to sponsor 4PA?
  • Why did you do so?

Storyboards

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The Value of My Time & Skill

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There is so much more to video editing than most people realize. The editing process is also way longer than most people realize as well. Those who work in video production are very much under-appreciated for this very reason. To most common folk, anyway. There was this one time that somebody I barely knew messaged me on Facebook and asked me what it would cost for me to create a 3 minute flashy video of him driving his semi-truck around. He didn’t realize what he was asking of me. I informed him it would require an entire work day of following him around so that I could get different shots from different angles of the truck, then it would take about another 5 hours of editing. I also let him know that I don’t work for free, so roughly 15 hours at 50 bucks an hour was going to cost him $750. Funny thing is he never responded to that message. I am not going to utilize my skills for free. Not unless it is for a good cause, like the documentary I am creating for 4PA.

To be honest, I don’t know when I would even have the time to do projects for other people in the first place. It’s been crazy enough just trying to do this one for 4PA with school, work, etc. Bottom line though is that I feel I am worth at least $50 an hour if not more if someone wants to pay for my services. Now, if it’s for a good cause like the non-profit, 4PA, then I might just do it for free. I see this as my way as contributing to the cause because I do believe in what they are doing.

As far as marketing goes, I think that the best way to market myself would be through social media and the web. However, like I mentioned, I don’t really have the time at the moment to be doing outside work, but that could change once I am done with school!

Definitely check out the following video:

My Ultimate Level-Up

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I would have to say that I had a couple different perspective widening experiences with media. The first was when I was in Stevens Middle School in 6th grade. We would watch a daily news broadcast on the TVs in the classrooms. The broadcast was produced by the 8th grade students in Mr. Edwards’ Advanced Media Technology class. I immediately knew what I wanted to do when I got to 8th grade. I thought it was so cool that we could produce things like this as an 8th grader. Next thing you know, I was in that very class when I was an 8th grader. I stood out from the rest of the class though. I didn’t help produce the daily segment with everyone else. I was off working on my own weekly segment called “The Jesse Report”.

The second experience was more recently as an adult. This hit me once I realized there was potential for me to practice my media production skills at my current job. This got me back into the game. I had a newfound desire to chase my dreams once again. After heading down this path, I started to discover all of the technological advances we have made in media production since I was in that Advanced Media class in middle school. I hadn’t really kept up with the times to be honest.

What type of player am I, you ask? Why, I am definitely a cross between the achiever and the explorer. I love playing games like Bethesda’s Fallout & Elder Scrolls series plus the entire Assassin’s Creed franchise. The AC games are great for the integration of historical events, landmarks, and locations into a fictional storyline. These games offer a huge open world that is ripe with many different locations to discover, quests to complete, and collectibles to find.

I want to level up in life by completing the Multimedia Communications program at Peninsula College and seeing what the future brings.

Side note: I had really hoped to find an old video on YouTube of the Stevens News Network from back in the day, but had no luck.

Media 111 – Module 8 – Weekly Essay

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The Animation That Changed My Life

An animated video that I believe enhanced my life would be one that I found on YouTube from the American Museum of Natural History when I was younger where the camera is focused on Earth, but then zooms all the way out to the edge of the observable universe. I was completely blown away by this! I was absolutely fascinated.

I grew up going to church on and off with my parents. I can’t say I was as devout as others, but I believed that there was a God who was watching and listening to us. As I became older, I started to question that more. I started to wonder why there wasn’t any physical proof of something that so many people were convinced existed. After watching this video, it really made me wonder. It made me realize just how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things. Our planet is essentially a speck of dust in an overwhelmingly vast sea of nothingness, yet some of us claim that it was all designed and built around us, for us, by some divine being. There are billions of other galaxies out there. Each one of those galaxies contains billions of different stars, which can all have their own solar system and planets.

Watching this animation got me interested in science and space. I then discovered people like Richard Dawkins, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, Christopher Hitchins, and Sam Harris. Today, I fully identify as an athiest. I strongly believe that religion and deities are things that humanity has fabricated ourselves due to the inability to go through life not knowing why we are here or where we go afterwards .I have a different line of thinking. I think as a species, we naturally tend to think too much of ourselves. We cannot imagine our existence without there being some meaningful purpose or reason for it. I can imagine that. I also don’t have a problem with it. I am perfectly okay with all of this happening by some random chance and just making the best of it while I’m here on this planet. I don’t need to believe in a magical being or a place in the afterlife in order to have a moral code and behave while I am alive.

When it comes down to it, I am glad that I have the views I have today. They are liberating. It’s quite possible that I wouldn’t have the views I have today if I hadn’t have watched the aforementioned animation.