*under construction

This assignment allowed creativity to take over and for the fun to flow! The goal of this assignment was to pick an issue of whatever (silly, serious, etc.) and make a public service announcement. I decided to have fun with these assignments to let go and let fun do allll the work. I have to say that I am a HUGE The Office fan…so I decided to let it influence my work this week. My topic I decided would be that there are too many damn people on this planet, and we need to do something about it. Like yesterday. So, I started off by using KeepVid and downloading a couple videos, like one of crowds of people, then a song to go along with the entire video I Hate People (Yup, that’s a real song), and ending with my personal favorite one of Dwight, hating people. I used iMovie because it makes life sooooooo much easier, and I cut up the clips so that it includes each one of the scenes that I want, as well as the News Theme iMovie offers! I did find trouble during the text I wanted to put. i wanted it to be dramatic, and go slow but every time I tried to slow it down, it just wouldn’t seem to go as slow as I wanted it to so I just let it use the standard speed but even when I still try to change the duration time, it still seems to be iffy, so that’s something I hope to fix as I continue to use iMovie over time. However, i am still pleased with my product and I’m also happy to report that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, but only because of how much practice I’ve been getting with iMovie. Anyways, this assignment was a wonderful five ?’s, here’s the final product and please like if you agree with Dwight and me!

This is my Story 2 Stars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tZ-cEIqJg&feature=youtu.be

This was my favorite assignment to do these past two weeks.

It took me a while to come up with what I wanted to write on the index cards.  I was thinking a lot and bouncing ideas around.  Then I remembered all the random/uesless facts I know and decided to have fun with it.

I wanted it to be informational and fun so I put in person contents for each of the 5 facts.  I figured sense I was not speaking and most of the facts were animal related, that I would use circus music in the background.  It also helped with the fun and silly part of it.

I recorded myself on me lab top webcam and then loaded that into movie maker, where I add the music.

A word, A Picture, A Story 3 stars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brplw8ycqIQ&feature=youtu.be

Before creating the story for this video I chose 5 random words.

Monkey

Dance

Tree

Coconut

Beach Ball

Google gave me a lot of options of pictures for each word.  I chose which ones I liked and then put them all into Movie Maker.  My sister and I sat down and looked at the pictures.  I started the story saying there was a monkey in the jungle.  We each left our statements open ended for the next one to fill in using the pictures and words I chose.

After we finished and I added in so jungle noises I watched what I had just created.  I do not think this assignment was as fun as some of the others were, but I think I did pretty well.  My story flows together and is kind of silly.  The picutres help guide the film and I am proud of what I produced.

The movie maker tool was very easy to use for this assignment.

Ok, so I thought the first 2 video assignments I did were pretty fun..But this one was absolutely hilarious and I loved filming it.  The assignment, Public Service Announcement, called to make a PSA on a something we really wanted to make people aware of, or just a goofy, silly topic.  Of course, I chose the goofy topic.

Since my roommates have cats, it didn’t take long to come up with the idea of catnip abuse.  I started by writing out everything I was going to say, and then I filmed the cats doing those things.  Using Audacity, I recorded myself and uploaded Sarah McLachlan‘s song “Angel” to play in the background.  That song is so overused in commercials, so I thought it would be funny to put it with something that’s not serious.  I used Windows Movie Maker to organize the clips of the cats and then uploaded the audio from Audacity to play in the video.  Finally, I uploaded the end video to YouTube! Enjoy!

11/16 stars.