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Did you know that 34 young workers are injured every day in B.C.? Did you know that young workers are more at risk than any other workers? Probably not. And that’s why we are taking the career education class. To help us out when we do get a job or if we already have one.

We started off by watching a very old video that turned out to be very gory however educational.

We would also take notes like the ones below to have for later.

These classes have come at a perfect time because a bunch of people in the class started getting spring and summer jobs. Some of us are still looking for one including me most of us realized we didn’t have much money. Also our parents are making us pay for things more and more. Which is good but no comfortable.

One of the biggest things we learned is the requirements of the employer. Orientation, training and supervision. If your employer hasn’t given you this they are breaking the law.

There are many pages with laws an regulations about workplace safety which are made by WorkSafe BC. An entity from the provincial government that has makes he regulations and enforces them.

We also learned that if you feel that a part of your job is unsafe you have the right to refuse it however you have to immediately report it to your boss so they can investigate. They in turn have to immediately investigate what you said was unsafe. If they find something, they can give you extra training or make a deal on what do to do. If they don’t find anything that imposes a risk, you have to go back to work. If you still find it unsafe, the employer has to report it and bring in somebody from WorkSafe and a worker member of Union you belong to.

My artifact:

I made a short video about workplace safety and how you have to have the proper training before working with my friend Nik.

https://youtu.be/sfMoJ0tZzt4

The point of the video or just an artifact was to show what we’ve been learning in the last few classes.

And it was very fun to film. It is now like the 3rd or 4th video I’ve made with Nik and it’s always a great time. As you can probably tell however we were on a time limit and you could say no budget but we made it work.

This unit has been very useful and helpful. To top it off we take a 25 question quiz about it and if you pass with 75% or more, you get a certificate for life.

Well that’s it. See you soon with another post.

Hello. As you see in the title, I have yet again been on the podium. Jason and I are now the only to have accomplished that.

Above was our magical performance. No just kidding it wasn’t that magical but it was better than anything we’ve done up tot that point.

I was literally a sheep for the whole performance but apparently I make an astoundingly good sheep.

I think the main difference between our first and second performance was that we practiced a lot more. Before Regionals we got one or two rehearsals in a class. After we were getting 4 or five. Also Aedan wasn’t there so it took off a bit of creative aspect but less distraction.

We improved massively. We took a 185 point performance and turned into a 264.40 point performance. All we really did was practice more. Cause it’s improv, you can’t really change much. We had a 26% improvement.

We made the document above to show our scores for the regionals and provincials to show the difference.

Ultimately it was a fun day, we were told not to explore the school much but you put over 500 kids into a building for a day what do you expect them to do.

Overall it was good and it wasn’t as bad as we always complain in class.

Well that’s it for DI 2019. See ya.

Hello and welcome back to Eppie #3 on the fundies on how to perform with a stressed out group. You know it, it’s D.I. My class always complains about it but in the end it always turns out fine, so that’s great.

For this year, I got put into a group with Izzy, Amelia B. Gabby and Aedan. And our challenge was Improv. We were dubbed Common Cents, which I found a very clever name. Amelia being the great artist she is made us a exquisite sign with our figureheads on it. Looks sick.

It was a hard challenge let me tell you that. However we didn’t have to build anything so hooray for 7 straight weeks of practice.

Above are the characters I researched. Simon Bolivar, the father of independence for 5 countries in South America. And Merlion, some mascot for Singapore that didn’t have much info on. However we decided that Amelia would play Merlion and we got lucky for our skit. I’ll explain later.

Our challenge consisted of making a 5 minute skit with 2 figureheads that are on coins around the world (each of us had to research 2 characters). At the start we’d be able to talk and then comes a dreadful thing called the flip where after we picked it up the skit would change from comedy to tragedy or vice-versa and even worse we’d switch to non-verbal.

Below is our performance.

My group got lucky because our scene was a class of rowdy students so bad they made their teachers quit. So Aedan and I fit into those roles perfectly. We had Izzy be our chorus (sort of narrator originating from Ancient Greek theatre). However that luckonly went so far because that dreadful flip gave us the most random switch your could think of. The piece of paper said the monster was good at cooking. Made no sense whatsoever even tho our group’s name was Common Cents.

Honestly, this latest D.I. competition has helped warm up to it a bit. I learned that Improv is really hard with a group especially when you’re not allowed to talk.

Well see you soon for Eppie #4. Coming soon to blog44.

Hello there. Welcome back. This post is going to be about struggling to film a hockey game with an iPad.

https://youtu.be/S9_pF5BqfRk

You’re probably wondering what the video above is. Well we were given a task. Which proved to be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. The task was to make a live event video.

To go into a bit more detail, we had film and edit a video of a sports event, party or something with action into a 2 minute or less video. Other criteria for the video included: incorporate an interview with a participant or someone there, had to have music in the background, and it had to have different angles, and types of filming (time lapse, slowmo, normal, pictures).

I don’t know abou you but when you watch sports on TV they have all different types of angles. They have whole teams of people on different jobs (filming, commentating, editing) and they make it live. They also have prime placing to film the games, and very expensive cameras and professional editing programs. I have one iPad.

My filming device

My first try at making the video, I went to my brother’s soccer game. This choice had way to many flaws I realized after the first few minutes. First of all I had no elevation, I was at the same height as the play. Second, you couldn’t really see what was happening on the other side of the field unless you were running down the sidelines but the footage would be really bad.

They know how to capture the sports events properly.

Third, I tried to capture only the highlight moments and no the whole 50 minutes. I missed the first few goals of the game. In  my plan, I wanted to commentate over the footage, but trying it to do live with only one person, while holding the iPad was a lot more complicated than I thought it would be.

Professional reporter with camera

My second attempt was way more successful than my first one, in my opinion. I went to my brother’s hockey game, instead of soccer. Since a rink has boards, usually the seats are more elevated and lucky for me this particular rink has several rows above so I could film with a lot better angles.

View of the rink.
I was were the red circle is.

For this game, I was able to get the warmups and the coaches talking. And from the point I was filming at, I could zoom in and out, and you could actually see what was happening in the game more clearly. I decided to film the whole game instead of constantly stopping and starting. That proved to be a problem later in the editing part of the video.

Hockey commentators. Probably the most famous in Canada.

I was able to comment over the warmup since it’s introducing the game but I tried for a bit of the game and that turned out to be horrible. So I abolished that idea. Probably my biggest setback, however was, I wasn’t able to get an interview. Nobody wanted to get interviewed and I didn’t want to interview any parents because lots of them don’t know much about hockey so it just be weird.

Editing the video was actually not bad. It was very time consuming since I had to cut a 70 minute video and put it into a 2 minute video.

Overall the making of the video was good challenge but a good challenge never hurt anybody.]

Well you have reached the end of my rant and you’re free to go now. See you soon.