Who remembers spending hours at a time in front of the tv playing your favorite game? Whether you played Super Mario Bros or Zelda, Sonic or War of Witchcraft, we all had different systems we used to play these games.  As we grew up, so did the gaming world.  It seemed like every year we were asking for a new console for Christmas!

I thought it would be fun to show the evolution of the gaming systems for the product evolution assignment.

How many do you remember? How many did you own? What was your favorite game to play and on which console? For me, my favorite was playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64, and then I loved this Luigi’s Haunted Mansion game for the Gamecube.

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To start this assignment I found all the pictures on this website, and then saved certain ones to my computer to use.  For the background music, I wanted to choose something very popular so I decided on the Super Mario Bros. theme song.  After locating this on youtube, I downloaded it using http://en.savefrom.net/.

I wanted to put this on Audacity so I had to convert it to a WAV file using an online converter.

Now that I had all of my things downloaded, I used Windows Live Movie Maker and uploaded all my pictures in chronological order and used the caption button to add text to each slide and made each slide 2 seconds long.  Once I seen how long the video was going to be, I went to Audacity and uploaded the mario song.

Since the video was only 52 seconds long, I trimmed the audio to be exactly 52 seconds and faded the ending.

After I saved this, I went back to Movie Maker and uploaded the song.

Then I saved it and uploaded it to Youtube.

It’s almost time for the best act in the circus! Leo the Lion is an extraordinary, popular lion that is the envy of all other acts.  People from all over come to see this magnificent creature perform!

But wait, oh no! There’s trouble!

I got the idea to do the Madagascar theme from searching through movies that featured lions.  I knew already that many have done and will do a Lion King clip, and though this is a great movie I wanted to be a little different.  At first I was trying to think how can I include a clip from Madagascar in the middle of the foley clip, but I couldn’t think of any good stories.

So I started looking up clips of lion training gone wrong and found some pretty funny ones but none that gave me what I wanted.  I wanted a video that featured the lion more than the human, and thats when I found the clip of Alex’s show.  I downloaded it using http://en.savefrom.net/.

Now that I had my story straight, I went to the sound clips on soundcloud and found the ones I wanted to use.

After I downloaded these, I imported them to Audacity and put them in their appropriate spots.

I didn’t have to change any of the sounds becuase they all fit perfectly.  So after I did this I saved it and went to Windows Live Movie Maker to start my story.

To start, I uploaded the foley video and turned the video volume all the way off.  I then clicked add title in 6 different places that I wanted to have text in.  These included the beginning titles and the ending credits.

For a music background I went to Freesound and downloaded a clip of circus music, which I then imported into the movie maker along with the Audacity sound clip I previously made. After that I uploaded it to Youtube with the appropriate tags.