Eating in Dublin - One Minute Movie

Here's the last of our movie projects with comments from the makers. Enjoy - Liam.

Raissa:

I chose this subject because in the city centre of Dublin we can find a lot of kinds of restaurants. In my opinion, it's impossible to miss your native food in Dublin. I think if we had more time to do it, we could have found other places to show the class. I wouldn't do anything differently because "food" is a subject that everyone wants to know about and for me it was easy and fun to do this exercise.

Angel:

My movie was based on the different places to get food that are available in Dublin city center, there is a lot of diversity in culture as well as price. There are cheap places and not so cheap places. I selected this subject because I really like food and I'm always trying new styles of food, in addition to meeting new food places to visit at another time. It was easy because the area we covered was not very extensive, and a little hard because the weather did not help much as it was raining and fun because we told several jokes and took the opportunity to get to know each other a little more. I think the only thing I would do differently would be to request more time to learn more, there is such diversity of sites and meals, and it's a big topic for just a 1 minute video. The rest all was fine.

Dublin Transport - One Minute Movie

Here's the third of our movie projects with comments from the makers. Enjoy - Liam. 

Evis:

Our movie was about transport in Dublin. We thought about two different options at the beginning. One of them was musicians and the other one was transport: we chose transport as at the time we were going to be shooting the movie the musicians wouldn't have been there and to be honest I wasn't too happy about that as I wanted to speak about them but in the end result was really great and now I'm very happy with our video! 
The funniest thing was seeing the people running to take the bus or people taking the LUAS without paying, or people walking fast in the rain trying to get their jobs. It was quite easy to take the shoots as every time that we asked someone they said 'yes of course, not problem at all' - people here are so friendly! The difficult part was filming in the rain - that wasn't cool. I'm quite delighted with our work and I wouldn't change anything. It was a great activity actually.

Dublin Architecture - One Minute Movie

Here's the second of our movie projects with comments from the makers. Enjoy - Liam.

Sendai:

I chose “Dublin’s architecture” because I consider that the shape, material and details of buildings, in general, say a lot about the culture of any city. Moreover, I enjoy art in general. For me, the biggest challenge was recording while it was raining. On the other hand, I liked doing different group activities; I think that it’s a good way to practice my English in real teamwork situations. Finally, maybe I’d improve my video with other snapshots of other symbols of Dublin.

Isabella:

Today my group and I filmed a short movie in Dublin city center. We decided to focus on the architecture in Dublin, which is very different and beautiful. Another point that made me choose this subject was that we needed to made a kind of post card of Dublin - the beauty that Dublin has and can attract tourists. However, I’d have preferred to film some bands that could have been on the street, but because of the time of day we chose not to do that. It was fun to make this movie, first because we planned it all and secondly, the day before we tried to imagine how it’d be step by step. The difficult part was editing, we had a few problems with the computer but it was solved on time. If I could have done it differently, I’d have filmed the guy that was singing on Henry Street and completed the movie with pictures, I’d also have changed the day and the time when we filmed. 

Erika:

I liked this subject because it's interesting to show a small part of Dublin, from a short and funny mini movie. I think it was easy in terms of the location and recording, but in the same way the weather was difficult because it was raining. I enjoyed my team and we cooperated very well, each of us bringing some ideas about the mini movie - it was fun. I think, it would have been different if we had had more time to record and to show more images of Dublin and of course if the day had been sunny. I would do it differently by adding more time and including data of interest or describing all the places in the mini movie.

Outsiders - One Minute Movie

Here's the first of our movie projects along with some comments from the makers. Enjoy - Liam

Agustina: 

We chose the subject of people working on Dublin’s streets because we think that it's a good way to show life in the city. The thing we found interesting was the crowd in the city centre and all that people that go to work on the street every day despite the weather or season. I think it was easy to find people working so early in the morning, but difficult to take good pictures or select just a few of all of our videos or images. Otherwise, I find the activity really interesting. It was fun walking on the streets with my partners and exchanging different points of view with them. If I did this project again, I’d like to organize the schedule or the different ideas more because when you are a group you have to agree with your partners.

Hyeyeon:

Our subject was 'Outsiders'. We selected the name because we had taken pictures on the street outside of people! In fact, today's weather was really bad as it was raining. So it was very difficult for us to take pictures. But we could observe so many people on the street in the city centre, so it was a really exciting activity! Actually studying inside is good as well, however I think doing activities like we did today sometimes is a really good idea for students because we can refresh our brains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had the opportunity again,I would like to make a movie about some restaurants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because I always love to eat food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Movie Madness!

Hey Guys!

Tomorrow we're going out to make movies, so here are some important things to remember. 

1. Be careful! Watch your partner as they are filming or taking shots - keep your eyes open. 

2. Be polite! If you want to film inside a shop/restaurant remember to ask permission. If you are refused just say thank you and leave. The same rules apply if you want to film a person on the street.

3. Check in! Every time you move from one place to another you need to come and tell me. You'll know where I am so there's no excuses. 

4. Charge up! Bring your phone charger, connecting cable and anything else you'll need to get your footage from your phone onto a computer. 

5. Have fun! Enjoy yourselves - this is a good opportunity to work together and produce a really cool film about Dublin, your home for the next while, let's hope the weather stays nice and let's have a great time! 

Thursday recap

Guest post by our classmate Hyeyeon Kim - Thanks Hyeyeon - Liam.

The class last week was really fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

Most of the time, we studied personality words and we studied how to pronounce those words.
Actually I love learning how to pronounce and find where stress is rather than only learning grammar,so it was such an exciting class for me!!
We also guessed about our class mate's personality by drawing signatures!

And we studied Echo Question!
It is useful to express my interest! We also guessed our own partner's interest, hobby,or about them and made some questions! And use them!

Whenever we talked to each other,saying like "Isn't it?" ,"do you?" it was really funny sometimes!

Last week was great for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could learn like last week from now on as well!!!!

Wednesday Recap

Guest post by our classmate Evis Mercado - Thanks Evis - Liam.

Hi guys!

Finally after a few days we have an update! Maybe the bad weather over the past few days didn't let us write  =)

For me today's class was funny as I enjoyed laughing about me and my clasmates..

Today we spoke a bit about graphology and we tried to guess our classmates' personalities by analyzing their signatures, that was quite funny as I was quite arrogant based on my signature!! My classmate turned out to be quite vain!! In the end it wasn't real, after we read the article we found better things to say!! Thank God I'm not using my handwriting here haha. It was a nice way to remember personality adjectives and practice them.

Another funny thing that we did was try to pronounce the symbols of phonetics to understand the pronunciation of some words as you can see in the picture..

So we have unvoiced sounds where you don't feel the vibration and voiced sounds where do you feel it, but I felt it in both!! haha.. No, but in the end I noticed the difference; it was to understand the rule, when you have verbs in past ending in unvoiced their pronunciation is /t/ for example depressed.. and for for verbs ending in voiced is /d/ for example bored. In other cases (verbs ending in t or d) the pronunciation is /id/ for example disappointed. A bit sad those three example aren't they? Now you have to find three optimistic ones!!

The last thing that we saw was comparatives "the comparative . . . the comparative"

Personally I like "the more you practice your English; the better you will get"

So, do you know what the best way to learn English is?