Edgar Mendez Blog#8

Edgar Mendez

Blog #8 

By working alongside my group members as a whole, and making a video for NCCSE ATP center located in San Marcos. I learned that without constant communication we never would have succeeded in making this video. The overall final outcome of our video in my point of view is high, due to the large hours of production applied throughout the semester. This project has improved my editing, and camera skills by going through the motion of the interviews we completed.

Working with the ATP students and employers, it brought to my attention the great need that our local community is unknown to, and by bringing forth this project and presenting this to the organization we are working with, this video will enable viewers to take part in the involvement of this organization.

On a personal note, I have always had the upmost respect for disabled students, but now that I personally worked alongside with these ATP students I realize how much these students have to offer to our community, these students have so much to offer and have the ability to work at a well respected job, which is not being done right now in our society.

Overall I enjoyed working on this project, and has changed the way I look at video. Video production is much more than what meets the eye, video production has taught me the great importance of collaborating with one another in order to achieve our main goal, in this case a final video.

Gerald Tovar Blog #8

Final Blog #8: Reflect on what this project and experience has given you in your life and art. Choose three or more of the following to discuss in your blog: how it has effected you personally, how it has increased your understanding and awareness of the community, how it has made you more sensitive to the needs of the community you are serving, how it has increased your leadership or collaborative skills, how it has effected the way you understand art and video production in relation to others, how it has increased you professional skills

In the time that we filmed this project it was a fun experience being able to interact with the different students and being able to watch them learn and grow as adults in the community. Personally it bettered my understanding of the development of people with with special needs and really opened my eyes to their hard work in becoming more independent people. Watching the community interact with these individuals though their work experience and their ability to travel all over through the transit systems and learn new day to day activities, I have become more understanding of their development and how they leaner, which is a very fun experience for them from what I could see. It has increased my leadership skills by being open to group work and really showing that i am a responsible leader in being apart of a film crew.  I have learned many things in the time that I have been with my group and it has begun my process of learning with production. The experience overall has been amazing and this being my first productions class has really showed me some of the things that I will be using in my future years at San Marcos, and I am very excited that I was able to start my career path here. The experience working with our community group allowed me to understand the challenges from each persons roll in my group and I am very excited to learn more. 

Ali Terwilliger Blog #8

Final Blog #8: Reflect on what this project and experience has given you in your life and art. Choose three or more of the following to discuss in your blog: how it has effected you personally, how it has increased your understanding and awareness of the community, how it has made you more sensitive to the needs of the community you are serving, how it has increased your leadership or collaborative skills, how it has effected the way you understand art and video production in relation to others, how it has increased you professional skills.

This project has been a great experience. I have enjoyed collaborating with my group members as well as the members of NCCSE to provide them with this video. I was excited to work with these kids and had so much fun in the process. There was one deaf student at the ATP center who was interested in photography and video production and I enjoyed communicating with him about his interest. He was always excited when we came to film and wanted to watch us set up and break down. I remember the first meeting we had with the NCCSE members; they expressed how desperate they were to have a video that represented their company. I feel that what we have accomplished for them has exceeded their standards and they have expressed their gratitude many times. I am so grateful to be given the opportunity to work with community members. I feel that through this project I learned how to be more professional and work with a client to complete a job the way they want it. This process has helped me grow personally and the skills I have acquired will help me in the future. Working with the group was also awesome. We all had unique qualities and worked together well. I learned from members of the group and believe that other member have also learned from me. I feel that one thing that helped our production process run smoothly was our constant communication. All group members were active in email communication to express concerns, set up shoot dates, or just shoot info back and forth. I really enjoyed working with my group and this class was an amazing experience!

Daniel Gamboa Blog #8

Final Blog #8: Reflect on what this project and experience has given you in your life and art. Choose three or more of the following to discuss in your blog: how it has effected you personally, how it has increased your understanding and awareness of the community, how it has made you more sensitive to the needs of the community you are serving, how it has increased your leadership or collaborative skills, how it has effected the way you understand art and video production in relation to others, how it has increased you professional skills.

Working with this project overall was a great experience for me. As an individual I have not had as much experience with production itself. Being the production manager was also a different experience then the previous management experience that I have, but still a good one. One of the biggest lessons was that of what I learned through the program and its involvement in the community. My previous experience with community programs was only with recreational programs. The ATP program was a very different program within the community that served a great purpose and made me aware of how these programs function. Their involvement in the community is almost ignored by most and the jobs the students in the program are involved in serve an important purpose.

At the beginning of the project I felt I had adequate management skills, however this project definitely added to my knowledge on how to manage a bigger group of people. Along with the team members managing the time and equipment was also a task that I had some trouble with, but was able to fix early on. I also felt that it taught me that collaborating with a big group can be a good thing as long as you have a hard working team, which allowed us to have smooth progress throughout the project.

Personally the project has taught me a lot about what my interests are within this type of industry. Project manager was a position I had some familiarity with, but it was the actual post production that affected me personally. I knew that my role in editing the video was limited due to time constraints, but the personal experience was a spark to become more knowledgable with the post production side of things.

Ruth Rosales Final Blog #8

Final Blog #8: Reflect on what this project and experience has given you in your life and art. Choose three or more of the following to discuss in your blog: how it has effected you personally, how it has increased your understanding and awareness of the community, how it has made you more sensitive to the needs of the community you are serving, how it has increased your leadership or collaborative skills, how it has effected the way you understand art and video production in relation to others, how it has increased you professional skills.

This project has given me more of an understanding of film as an art and the various styles one can take when creating a film. By changing the filming styles, one can change the dynamics of  the video as a whole (ex: handheld vs locked shots, interview vs verite). I feel like this is something you see throughout the video as we roll through interviews.

 Personally, i have become more aware of the community we are working with, interacting with, and portraying through our film. By working with this group, my sensitivity towards this community has increased in more ways than can be mentioned. Prior to this project, I had been exposed to the challenges that these individuals face, but actually working with them helped me make personal connections with the students that has made my work all the while more meaningful.

 Moreover, working in a team has helped me develop collaborative skills as everyone in our group was at different levels of experience with filmmaking, so there was always the adjusting and emphasizing of skills and development of new ones which was fun. Also, getting a chance to edit and learn from Ali (in terms of audio) has really helped me develop my skills because i was very weak in the audio department. All in all, this whole project was a great learning experience.

Ruth Rosales Update on project

Last week we got an interview with a parent and I came up with a 2nd rough just to show the NCCSE where we are at.


I also took the liberty of screening the rough draft to other individuals to see what they felt was missing.
It was suggested we get more b-roll of the students working on those "life skills," this is where we are at today (gathering more B-roll of students cleaning, cooking, etc.). We have even suggested they re-enact some of these skills to better suit the video.


NCCSE ROUGH CUT 2

Moreover, from what you see, we are condensing it, everything we have in the 2nd draft is for reference (still to import Edgar's footage who is also still filming right now), Ali is going to fix audio, and we are finishing up gathering more B-roll.

We have shown this product to the NCCSE crew and they have given us some feedback which we will work on once we get all of our footage.

-Ruth Rosales

Edgar Mendez Blog #7

Progress reports/blog (#7): Report on the video to date -- where you
think it is successful, where it needs more work, what you can do to
improve it.

I am very happy at where we stand. We have included a Interview from
an ATP student gradute like KC for example, who is out in our society
working in a real job. We also have interviews from employers,
parents, staff, and NCCSE represetatives. Im happy to say that we have
succeded in filming everyting we intended to film from the very start
of this video group project. Visually the interviews that we have
turned out great, the lighting in all of our interviewees were well
lit, which only enhaces the final outcome of our video project.  The
main challenge we have now is trying to make it a free flowing story
with easy interpertation for the general audience.

Daniel Gamboa Blog #7

Progress reports/blog (#7): Report on the video to date -- where you think it is successful, where it needs more work, what you can do to improve it.

I feel like today was a good production day we had to fill in the missing elements of the video that we will need to finish up our project. The video's last cut was good and had a pretty good flow to it but we still need a to make it flow to have a point come across, which is to create awareness for employers as well as families. Adding in the parent interview along with the last adjustments to the student will give us the missing pieces that will bring the video together. Having the video continue to give a laid back vibe that also informs is what we are hoping for. 

Ali Terwilliger Blog #7

Progress reports/blog (#7): Report on the video to date -- where you think it is successful, where it needs more work, what you can do to improve it.

The video is coming together nicely. Today we had a very productive work day. We got 3 interviews done (Karen, Gail, and a ATP parent) we will use these new interviews to better explain what the ATP center does and to also break up Mike's interview. We are going to go to Dogtopia tomorrow and attempt to get a better interview and footage of KC on the job. I think that are video is on track we just have to work on editing it all together in a smooth way. Next week we will probably just finish doing color correction and lower thirds and adding the final touches to our project. We are excited to see all of our work come together and we know our partner is excited too!! 

Progress Report/Blog #7

Progress reports/blog (#7): Report on the video to date -- where you think it is successful, where it needs more work, what you can do to improve it.

We just finished filming 2/3 interviews we planned for today. 

For this video to be successful we still need: 

• Interview from Karen at NCCSE
• Parent interview (to be done today, April 16 at 5:45pm)
• KC re-interview (is it even necessary? we're trying to figure it out...)
• Gail interview
• More B-roll
• among the Tighter/smoother cuts/transitions (music will be dragged longer, Mike's interview will be better selected, an ending montage might be added, etc.)
• Graphics and lower thirds need to be added as well

Attached is the link to the Rough Cut #1 of the NCCSE blog

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

For the most part, after today, we will have most of our footage together and we would just need to get to doing more editing, color correction at the end, etc... We are all excited to have this project taking form. 

Edgar Mendez Blog #6

Indvidual progress reports/blog (#6): Each person submits a progress
report about what you have accomplished this past week and what you
have left to do.

Edgar #6

So far this past week, I met up with some students from the ATP Center
along with a representative from NCCSE, at our local Cal Sate San
Marcos Child Care facility.  Since this was more of a freestyle shoot,
I took a T3i DSLR for the shoot and focused mainly on the interaction
between the ATP students and the children.

-What is left to do is find someone to narrate our video, which will
make our video complete. Besides trying to find a narrator, we also
are thinking of re-shooting certain interviews, that we thought could
improve. As far as our production schedule, I really believe that we
are definitely right on track into completing this video piece. As for
editing, I am responsible for editing the kids care footage, which
will definitely add a different feel to our piece.

Alexandra Terwilliger Blog #6

Indvidual progress reports/blog (#6): Each person submits a progress report about what you have accomplished this past week and what you have left to do

So far in this project I have had multiple roles. I have helped with filming, set up and break down,  taking production stills, and also organizing footage into bins. This week we went to the ATP center to get more footage of the students. We filmed them getting on the bus and also filmed them making breakfast and surfing the internet. We also showed some of the people at the ATP center our work in progress and we got some great feedback, we even showed the students the video and they were very excited! We also did more filming at Dogtopia. We still need to get footage of the students doing their work at Palomar College as well as re-do our interview with KC. We would also like to try to get one more interview of a parent and child. We need to work on editing the video so that it flows well between the different segments. 

Daniel Gamboa Blog #6

Indvidual progress reports/blog (#6): Each person submits a progress report about what you have accomplished this past week and what you have left to do


The last week before break we shared our video with a couple of the teachers at the ATP center and after posting it on the blog they were all able to view it and we give feedback about what they saw. We got some great feedback about the video about some things to add and some things to think about when finishing it up. Even though we have a rough edit together we still have a lot of work to add in to make sure we have enough video.

Whats left to do ?
-We want to get one of the interview re done for audio purposes as well as getting a little more b-roll.
-We also want to try to get a production day together to interview one of the parents for a quick testimonial.
-  We are wanting to get some footage at the last site we have not shot at to add what is a big part of what they do there in the program.
- Lastly is putting it all together with these last pieces we feel we will have a solid project and video for the program.

Gerald Tovar #6

Indvidual progress reports/blog (#6): Each person submits a progress report about what you have accomplished this past week and what you have left to do

Working with the group I have helped label bins while editing, I helped choose some good footage that we could use in our videos and helped ruth add some work to the edited cut. While we where at Dogtopia I was the Dog Whisperer and helped keep the dogs away from KC so we could get some good footage of her interacting with a few dogs but not all of them as they would swarm around her. While we filmed at the ATP center I helped film and set up, along with making sure the sound worked and that the interview of mike was smooth. While we filmed at San Marcos High I filmed along with everyone else a little bit of what I could. Filming at the ATP center and showing them our rough cut of the video and filming in their environment, working with each other and filming them getting ready for transportation to school. What we have left as of now is to have someone narrate the video and to finish some transitions and also to add a few more progress shots.

Gerald Tovar #4

In your own words, describe the social issues your project is addressing. Besides the media project you are producing, what else do you think can be done to solve the issue or problem?; 2) update me on your progress in your team

The social issue is dealing with disabilities and creating an environment that feels safe to the people at hand. It is to help these disabled students feel comfortable within their community and to safely go about their day using transit systems, working, going to school and interacting with community. I think to solve the issue, people, instead of staying in their comfort zone, should go out of their comfort zone to make disabled people feel comfortable. But then again, all people might feel more comfortable if anyone did that. From that point we filmed at the ATP center, have a few interviews done, may need a few more. Had filmed at San Marcos high and set a date to film at Dogtopia which we had. 

Ruth Rosales Individual Progress Report Blog #6

Indvidual progress reports/blog (#6): Each person submits a progress report about what you have accomplished this past week and what you have left to do

This past week we shared our skeleton with the crew at ATP. Turns out, the whole student body saw it at the center and we have received positive reviews thus far. Also, this past Friday, a few of us went filming at the ATP center to get more B-roll of the students in their environment as well as walking out towards the bus, utilizing public transportation--skills these students learned while at the ATP center. We are going to Dogtopia today to get more b-roll and footage of the location and perhaps get better interview pieces from KC (she'll need some coaching).

What is left  to do? 

-In my eyes, polish up the skeleton and add more content so that the NCCSE can see what it's shaping up to look like.
-We discussed having more "staged"  B-roll of KC (i.e.) having her re-enact her work.
-We have also discussed "staging" B-roll of the students working at the Student Store in San Marcos so that it looks clean
-For the intro montage, I would like footage of the students smiling and having fun at the ATP center or out and about.
- We are also going to settle on a narrator for the project (this is in the works) 

--Ruth Rosales

Edgar #5

My role for this group has had to do with recording some footage or sometimes helping out with the audio sound check, setting up both the video/audio equipment and when we had our first interview I brought a kino ligh kit system, and set it up. Our group really just goes with the flow and helps each other out, and it has really worked out quite well I must say.  We are defitnately on track, but at the same time some of our footage can improve. But so far working along side my group has been a great learning experience, and fun at the same time. Im looking forward for how our finished project will look like.

Edgar #4

                   The social issues we are adressing, happen to be equal opportunity and treatment for all living people within and outside our comminities. We must declare within ourselves to let disabled people have the same opportunities as any other. By working together and teaching disabled students important tasks and developing their skills. We can then help them succeed in living a independent lifestlye. But first we must give these talented disabled people a chance for them to work amongst us, so they can one day be independent. So far our group has mainly been recording footage on tuesdays.    We already have both b-roll and interviews from the ATP center, as well as some footage from the San Marcos High student store. We already set a date for Dogtopia which we are very excited about. We are defitnately on track on our production schedule. 

Production Schedule Revised

Daniel Gamboa Blog #5

My role has remained for eh most part the same as far as production manager. Most recently I have emailed and called both teachers from the ATP center and employers to schedule shooting time. The most recent production day was Dogtopia location. I scheduled time with Diane Wheeler the manager at Dogtopia to shoot B Roll on site as well as interview on Friday. I have also been helping with the camera work as well. I feel as if our interview techniques have become better. The only issue we have come across which i am taking upon myself to try to help the team with is the audio issues. We have experienced difficult locations when it comes to audio. The interviews I will work on making sure we get a less noisy location to fix previous interviews as well as the other ones we may shoot.

Ali Blog #5

My participation thus far in the production process has varied. I have been taking production stills at each of the shoots as well as operating the video cameras. I feel that in the group we all trade off on all of the roles so that everyone has an opportunity to participate in all aspects of production. We discussed what we wanted to cover for the research project and how we wanted to arrange our footage for our video in progress screening. I have agreed to help in researching our topics and compiling our powerpoint as well as come together as a group to make the video in progress edits. I believe that are group is on track although we are finding it somewhat difficult to represent the ATP students in a good light. We have tried coaching them through the interviews but we are still struggling to have them answer questions in a way that makes them editable. We are working on making them feel comfortable with us so that they will be less nervous. I think that getting feedback on what footage we have thus far will help us head in the right direction. 

Ali Blog #4

I believe that the social issue that our project is addressing has to do with equal treatment for all individuals. I believe that most of the time people with disabilities are not given all of the opportunities that other people get. Often times they are thought to be incapable and cannot be independent individuals. Although people with disabilities face many obstacles I don't think that it is fair to assume that they cannot be valuable and independent individuals. I believe that if they have support and are taught important skills they will be able to overcome some of the obstacles they face. I believe that NCCSE offers services that provide these individuals with opportunities. By supporting NCCSE and other organizations of this kind we can ensure that people with disabilities are given a chance to reach their full potential and become more independent individuals. Our team has been shooting each week on Tuesday mornings and afternoons. We conducted test interviews with some of the students at the ATP center to get them comfortable being on camera and to see who would be a good interview candidate. We also did an interview with Mike, a teach from the ATP center and also shot some B roll on site. We have set up a date to shoot at Dogtopia to show KC (previous ATP student) on her job. We are working on getting as much footage together as possible. We also discussed how we would divide the work for are research project and video in progress.

Ruth Rosales Blog #5

Prompt: Video Blog #3, upload footage from you project (3 x 1:00 clips, or rough cut of one section); summarize your participation.


I am in the middle of uploading the video to YouTube (the quality is very low due to the fact that it's 8 minutes long and I wanted to just show a skeleton of what Gerald and I have developed so far).

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoaG6qdwGc&feature=youtu.be


Basically my (Ruth Rosales) job has been everything from setting up, running the camera, checking out equipment, importing, organizing clips, editing, and exporting/uploading. Gerald helped organize and title clips so that I could easily find them and organize them on the timeline. Also, we are running two cameras on our shoots-my VG20H equipped with various lenses ranging from 18-200mm, 50mm,  and others, as well as an HMC40, shotgun, wireless lavalier, and a Zacuto stabilizer rig for the moving shots. On a personal note,  I am very happy with Redman's audio and composition, it looks great (wait until I upload a higher quality version). I feel like we could either re-do the Dogtopia audio or crank it up a bit and see what we get (the dog barking was a tad annoying). All in all, I feel like the project is starting to form. Let me know what you all think.

Production Day Dogtopia

Daniel Gamboa Blog #4

I feel as if the program that we are covering is one of very few programs that assist students after they exit high school. These type of programs can be very useful and help with allowing students with special needs to contribute within their community. When they lack the help with getting in the right direction they will also lack the experience they need to contribute to the community around them. As we have become more involved with the ATP center and everyone there we I personally have realized how much more they could use contributions to help the program. After we get time to see a former student in the work place it will Im sure open our eyes to the success of this program.

The issue at hand is simply the awareness that these type of programs have as well as the contributions whether it be funding or just volunteered time. The ATP program itself has some great people working currently but what we are hoping is that this video could help with the issue at hand. Allowing people something to see that sparks interest as well as sparking hopeful contribution for not only programs like ATP but all related programs.

Production Day ATP Site Interview

Ruth Rosales Blog #4

In your own words, describe the social issues your project is addressing. Besides the media project you are producing, what else do you think can be done to solve the issue or problem?; 2) update me on your progress in your team

Honestly, I find that the "special education" sector in education is often overlooked. As someone who worked through a school district for a high school, I cannot emphasize the fact that this population of students and community members are underestimated. Just because these individuals learn differently, doesn't mean they are "disabled," they are completely able to manage tasks and I don't think they are given a chance to fully integrate with society and be seen as a key workforce in society. From the start, I've found a passion in this project I am participating in as I hope to not only break down ignorant notions about the subjects we are filming, but to create awareness for these students so that they know they can continue to work in their programs in order to land wonderful jobs and be able to support themselves.

What else can be done by solving the issue at hand? Well, it starts out small in my opinion. Things like changing the language we use (i.e. the word "retarded") are steps we can use to fully become aware and compassionate humans.

As far as the progress our team has made:
We are all still fueled by the fire that burns within us to make a great film for the NCCSE to show. Everything seems to be running well, we just need to continue to go out and shoot and gather a lot of footage (it's always good to have more footage than come up short).

We are also currently working on our research project once we get our ideas covered.

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Production Day #1 San Marcos High Student Store

Edgar Blog #3

Today we went to San Marcos High School to get some B-roll from their student store. We focused on the interaction amongst the NCCSE students. We noticed how hard working these students are and how much concentration they put into their work. I personally had a great time working along side these great spirited students. 

- for our B-roll we only encountered one main difficulty which was to not get the faces of the high school students in our frame shot. But other than that everything went quite well. 

Ruth Rosales Blog #3

What unique contribution have you brought to your group or to the project to date? If this contribution is something new you discovered about yourself or is something that is familiar to you that you feel secure about, how can you develop it further?

On Tuesday, we filmed at the San Marcos High School student store starting at around 1130am. Fortunately, all of our team made it to the first shoot session and we all contributed in various ways. In my case, I brought my personal camera, lighting, lenses, and rented out microphones and a boom stick to bring for the shoot. It turned out that the HMC40 (or maybe it was 150?) that we rented out had two low batteries, so we utilized my camera and Alli's T2i to film b-roll of the students working the student store at SMHS. Personally, I felt fairly secure holding a camera and going about gathering and framing shots as best I could. We all brought strengths to the group as we collaborated in garnering great b-roll and audio (once the HMC was up and running). 

One thing I feel we all need to work on with our students is communication, as they often times kept looking and smiling at the camera, whereas we wanted the "truest" depiction of their work to come through. We might need to coach them a bit to just be used to the camera and to film more with them so that they are accustomed to us running around with seemingly "intense" gear. Furthermore, I kept waiting for action to happen so that I could capture it, I feel as though i also need more comfort in asking the subjects to "dramatize" or create/repeat actions I missed out on. 

Ali Terwilliger Blog #2

I have thoroughly enjoyed working with my group and our partner so far in the process. We all are able to communicate well and work together fabulously. So far in the process I have helped teach two of the group members basic editing in Final Cut. By teaching them how to do things I was able to brush up on my editing skills at the same time as helping them learn new helpful things, both of which will greatly benefit our project. I also feel like I have stepped up more than I normally do in group work. I like to discuss my ideas and concerns with the group for feedback. I believe that through this constant communication our group is able to stay cooperative and on the same page for project ideas. During our shoot at San Marcos High School on Tuesday I took some production stills. One of the teachers from NCCSE asked if they could have the photos to print out and put into their office. It is a great feeling knowing that our partner is truly appreciative of our work and will use all the great things we give them. I am excited to further develop this project with my awesome group!

Production day #1 San Marcos High Student store

On site today at San Marcos High student store getting some great B roll. Great location to see a lot of the students interacting with the high school students here. Sound seems lil it may be a little tough to capture but this is just location one more locations coming soon.

Ripomatic

Ali Terwilliger #1

When we arrived at the Adult Training Program facility in San Marcos we were greeted by Mike, one of the teachers at the school. He led us into one of the classrooms and we got to meet some of the students in the program. Shortly after we met with other people from NCCSE and began discussing the program and their ideas for the video. It was my understanding that they primary target audience for the video was possible employers and parents interested in getting their children enrolled in the program. We also talked about possible interview subjects and decided that we would interview one of the employers, a member of NCCSE, and a graduate of the ATP program who now works at Dogtopia in San Marcos. We talked about access to facilities and releases for the students and people who would appear in the video. We talked about which days and hours would be best for filming and we are planning on doing the bulk of our shooting on Tuesdays and Fridays. We decided that we would also shoot some of the classroom activites as well as film the students running the student store at San Marcos High School. The members of NCCSE were very open to letting us make most of the decisions about the video. They seem really laid back and excited for the work that we are going to provide them with. I look forward to continuing this project with them.

About NCCSE

NCCSE Webpage

Gerald Tovar #1

As we started out meeting with our community group we began discussing the overall spectrum of the video. They had given us the information on who and what they wanted the video to show. One of the main points they wanted to convey to the community was to show the parents what the program is about. How student interact in the community and to give the parents a sense of comfort as they let their child progress on their own. As well as showing future students and current students, that are past the age required for this program, to continue in the program and to with their individual progress. The goals I have for the video are to creating a video style that would show an importance of this program to the community.

Edgar #1

Edgar Mendez
VPA mager


When I attended the 1st group meeting all the staff members greeted us with great respect and that made me feel very comfortable.  We met many of the current adult disabled students and got to know them a bit on the personal level. Some of the adult students were shy while others were very outgoing.  As we all sat down to talk about our plans and goals everyone seemed to be on the same page of what our main objectives were  as well as our main visionary aspects to our final product.

- we agreed to have a documentary feel to the short video.
-we agreed to interview a few staff members as well as current employees and employers that are part of the ATP program

-we also thought it would be a great idea to interview some of the current students and follow them around and to show how their average day is like

1st Meeting

Today we had our first meeting with the teachers and students of NCCSE. It went very well gathered a lot of great information for the project and we are excited to get started !

Ruth Rosales #1

Last week, we met with a few people from the NCCSE at a location they had off of Mission Ave. here in San Marcos. I liked that their room was small and clean, but as we were informed, most of our focus would be about them “outside the classroom” and doing more “hands on work. Moreover, we all discussed various ways to tackle their video. My role during the meeting was being an active participant (like everyone else) in asking questions or for clarification when needed. Furthermore, I took down brief notes about what key points they wanted to address in their short video. 

Notes from our meeting:

--It's about students with disabilities (18-22) who usually get no h.s. diploma

Goal:

--want people (employers) to feel comfortable even though they have unique needs

--persuade employers that we are providing them with "adequate" employees

--make deaf students understand that they too, can be in the program and continue

--families and parents should/will see this as well

--parents: let go of their fears and promote independence of their kids

Furthermorore, we talk to Mike and Angela about employee/employer interviews, so let's be sure to touch base with them so we can get employee stuff taken care of (as it is seemingly the hardest), the rest should be easy to film.
We also agreed to film Tuesdays (mostly) and Fridays (those of us that could).

We received their logo and they should be reviewing their own release forms.

Daniel Gamboa #1

The direction that we went want to take is a day in the life of one of the students. which will include an average day there with the organization. Its going to portray a documentary style that we feel will capture exactly what the program itself is doing on a day to day basis. Being that i am the production manager during the meeting I made sure to get the contact information from all of the people we will be working with in the project as well as ask how their personal availability may or may not constrain the time we need for the project. Some goals that we have set forth in the upcoming weeks are:

• Finalizing days for shooting within the organizations building as well as public locations.
• Obtaining all release forms that we would need to start shooting. (students first)
• Scouting the locations to shoot and taking photographs of locations 
• Revising production schedule to match the dates and times that are going to be verified.
• Completing all location shooting within 1 -2 weeks