End of the Year Reflection

          Al-righty then.

          This is the second to last blog post until school starts back up in January, and I am going to write about the best pieces of work I have done so far this semester that I am very proud of.
          First was the video project that I did on the state of our ocean waters and how our
 littering effects it.  As of the moment the video is not hosted anywhere, but I am working on getting it hosted to youtube (it's currently uploading).  I feel like I really connected to this project because I am a person that cares about the oceans, and the amount of untapped power and unseen beauty that lies within it, and I am definitely not one to stop and let the people that say they are the same as me ruin it.  I put a lot of work into it, and as there are some timing issues that I would love to fix, it is too late now.  I am also proud of how some of my shots were taken.  This shot here I feel is a great artistic shot because of the wide angle and how much it covers and shows.  It shows a cigarette butt sitting in a gutter in the bottom right corner, yet a great blue cloudy sky in the top left.  I feel like it really shows how one little thing can ruin a
 great big thing, just by being in the wrong place, which was really the whole point of the project that I was working on and I feel that this specific shot shows that.
          I got to this point through tons of hard work and time.  I think I stayed in at least days from 7:30 till at least 7:30.  I also worked hard outside of the classroom, in order to get interviews outside of the school, or footage outside of school.  I feel like good projects really require more than a slight motivation and some internet research.  It requires a huge drive and a lot of research, not only through the internet, but through people, places, and things.  For instance for this project I went to a beach cleanup hosted by Surfrider SD and Coastkeeper, and I found some interesting information, such as the amount of trash picked up there, and also the types of trash that was found there.

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