Week 3: Learning how to edit in Final Cut Pro, talking about college and visiting Down East


This week included film editing with Suzanne, talking with graduates/ undergraduates, and exploring the local fishing/aquaculture industry. Akina and Evelyn, two our students, have written the following post about all of it. Enjoy!

Tuesday

watching videos

We started our learning on film editing using the program Final Cut Pro. We went to the iMac computer room in the Library building. Suzanne introduced us to the program and let us edit a film ourselves by having each of us make our own video using clips already taken. That’s how we learned to use Final Cut Pro. Afterwards, we analyzed each other’s video to look for mistakes and such. We enjoyed it because it was hands-on and we got to make something ourselves!

In the afternoon, three students (Max and Stacy, recent graduates from UNC Chapel Hill and Eli, an undergraduate at Duke) came to talk to us about college and preparing for college. We asked them questions and they helpfully told us important things we would need to know eventually! It was educational!listening to Max 

 

Thursday

on ladder (685x1024)

We learnt about aquaculture and the fishing industry in Carteret County. First, our film camp went to Smyrna to visit the Marshallberg Farm aquaculture facility. The drive there was great itself, the wetlands and forests were beautiful. Our guide was Brian, who works at the farm. WE SAW SO MANY BIG FISHIES!!! (Russian Sturgeon) Brian showed us the equipment in the big giant tanks like the oxygen tools and water filters, and he even let us feed some of the fish! Brian then showed us the other building still in the making. The roof of it had a to-be-built in robotic train device to drop fish food in the tanks. Then we went back to the other building and Brian gave us a job of moving small baby fish into a new tank! They were so cute and small, but I was worried some fish might get sick from being moved a lot. Veronica was responsible for counting the fish as we moved them to the new tank, and we moved 195 fish! That was our big accomplishment of the day!

V, A and AP (1024x686)

E and K counting fish (1024x685)

tank (1024x685)

A with baby fish (685x1024)

We left the farm and went to a fish house in Davis where we started to learn about the traditional fishing industry Down East. The owner of Fishtowne, Bill Rice, showed us the fish house and then we visited Fishtowne in Beaufort when afternoon came. This is where fishermen go to drop off the seafood that they catch to get the fish cleaned and sold.

Bill Rich and students (1024x685)

A local fisherman named Chris talked to us about working with researchers to find ways to prevent big fish from dying when they are thrown back into the ocean as bycatch. If very large fish are just tossed back in, their swim bladder is inflated and they can’t get back down into the water so there is a “descending” tool fishermen can use to help the fish survive and Chris is encouraging other fisherrmen to use this tool. Fishtowne is a seafood shop where you can buy FRESH SEAFOOD…FRESH. The shrimp looked delicious too and in fact, Zhuying bought a small cooler of shrimp (heads on) to take home for dinner!

crab (1024x685)

at fish towne (685x1024) Zhuying with shrimp (1024x685)

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