What Does Community Mean to YOU?

Around mid or late July all the ZeumMasters were introduced to a project we chose to participate in. The topic was community. It could be a specific community, school Community, ethnic Community, hobby Community etc and etc.

Since the project was about community, Michelle and I thought why not blog about our schools. Comparing them to see how similar and different they were, and adding photoshoped pictures too. Michelle goes to Lincoln, while i go to Balboa. The schools project didn't work out, since Michelle went on a trip to Boston for awhile. I couldn't write a blog about Lincoln since i don't know much about the school, and I can't compare schools with just Balboa, so we changed the project to a video interview about community.

Our project is about peoples perspectives of community, and their definition of "community." We basically had to interview people from Zeum and people from different areas to get different perspectives from different people. We interviewed Paul, Sammi, Traci, Monique, Michelle Fisher, Michelle(this girl from the library), My friend Diane, and Ryan.

When we were done interviewing people, I had to upload all the files onto my computer and out of my camera. I had to edit the video and everything. It was really fun though, because i like editing videos anyways. so it was all good. Michelle helped with the layout, so it could be pretty. Avia helped me with the layout a bit a couple days before michelle got back from Boston, but the computer froze and i never got to save my work. that was kinda lame. yeah....but i learned that you gotta save almost every 5 minutes, just in case! =]]]]

The questions that i asked were pretty simple and to the point. I asked three questions, and they were. What comes to mind when you hear the word community? What does community mean to you? and What community are you apart of? The answer were similar and different at some points. The answers were surprising, in a way. Because all the answers were similar and i thought it would probably be different.

The fun part of this project was interviewing everyone and editing the video. I think the most challenging thing about the project was the fact that the computer froze and i had to redo it. still lame!

The finished project turned out good. i saved to my e-mail, but i'm gonna try to save it to a dvd. viewing the video from downloading the attachment off of my e-mail kinda went wrong, because the computer made it really small.

TAH DAH!