The Bulldog
Let's get digital!Wednesday, May 09, 2012 By Yu Ting
@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Times-Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }p.BasicParagraph, li.BasicParagraph, div.BasicParagraph { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 120%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The Digital Media Class will be a course offered at Kaimuki High School next school year. This media class will be located in the newly renovated K Building. At this class, Students can learn different productions of digital media. Digital files are created, enhanced, encoded, and distributed using computer hardware and software applications. These files represent an assortment of media types, including but not limited to audio, video, graphic, written content to seen on the internet, and “everything are related to digital media that we want to make sure student have the opportunity to learn,”said Digital Media teacher David Croft. “I’m pretty interested at digital media lab, it has high technology,” Said Kyra Tawn, freshman. Digital media lab is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital from. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission of information or to the “end product”, such as video, augmented reality or digital art. Florida’s digital media industry association. Digital Media Alliance Florida defines digital media as, “the creative convergence of digital arts, science, technology and business for human expression communication social interaction and education.” Once digitized, media may be processed in a variety of ways using standard computer hardware and software or, where performance is critical, in high performance digital hardware such as Application-Specific Interrogated Circuit (ASIC). Processes can include editing, filtering and content creation. ASIC is an integrated circuit customized for a particular use, rather than general-purpose use. The money to built the lab is from the legislature. The lab has a complete TV studio, 4 lap top, 24 computers, and 6 cameras. The class room is 90 feet by 40 feet. The maximum class size is 36 people. Teacher could use the facility to help build their life instruction material and students could use it to promote the school. “Anybody who is Kaimuki High School student and interning at Digital Media Lab can join Digital Media Lab, even now.” Said Mr. Croft “Digital Media Lab sounds very hard, and now is fourth quarter. They may not teach you from the beginning of Digital Medias Lab.” Said Susan Li, sophomore. “Actually digital media lab is more easy than what you think, it have a lot fun when you doing digital media.” said Yun Nian junior. “Mr Croft showed me how to record things using different systems and equipment such as sound systems, color correction, and angles at which it records it. We learned how to utilize the different tools. For example, in sound we learned how to distort the sound or make it sound crisper. I prefer hands on learning. It’s fun. Our training is very hands on. This class has helped me in gaining experience and background knowledge on using film equipment. It’s a fun class where you can make and edit videos. In the beginning it will be boring because of the bookwork and vocab, but it’s all there to help you learn,” said junior Augustine Luc. Augustine was a student that was chosen to go to a field trip to Hawaii legislature with the Mr. Croft and Olelo, a video production company. “Olelo was really nice about the trip,” remarked Augustine. “They trained us good and showed us how to film using the camera. I was nervous, but Olelo helped me take the role of interviewer and I was able to interview people in congress about future laws, and economics.” |