The first thing that came to mind as a how to video was to bust out my skateboard so that’s what I did lol. I haven’t touched it in a couple of months but this seemed like the perfect opportunity because the ollie is fundamental trick–without a strong base there you can’t go into harder tricks like heelflips and kickflips. Going through the process of starting at the very bottom again was interesting. For one I’d lost the balance I would usually have and I’m used to the parking lot rather than the garage which is way bumpier than I thought it would be.
Thankfully it’s the weekend so the garage was pretty cleared out and it was drier than everything else too which was a plus. I recorded all of the clips on my laptop then transferred them into iMovie and cut them accordingly. I edited those and then I decided I would want some background music just so there was something to listen to other than my board and my voice. I did the voice over last and adjusted all of the audio for the clips so it wouldn’t be overbearing and my instructions would still come out clear. Hope ya like it! I am so rusty, don’t judge.
I chose to do the how to video assignment for one of my video assignments this week. I was looking for an assignment to tie into the theme of our course and I thought this would work well since the course is about using the internet to tell a story. Since we used the Mozilla X-Ray goggles in week 8 I thought it would be good to make a how to video on how to install and use them. This video could be used by others and could be used in other classes. I use instruction videos like this all the time and have always wanted to make one. To make the video I needed a software that would do a desktop recording and record me speaking. I found the Movavi software that was free, but the videos couldn’t exceed 2 minutes. I just went to the Mozilla website installed X-Ray Goggles and did a quick example on an Ebay page. I did the actually editing using Windows movie maker and put the intro and the credits in.
For this assignment I had to create a tutorial for something. This was a lot harder than I thought it would be because it was hard to find the correct video height, lighting, and an idea. I chose to french braid my cousins hair (this was her idea, not mine. So thank you Kristi). I apologize in advance for my super messy craft room, I am in the middle of a massive quilting project.
I used the same process that I used for the craft tutorial. I recorded my video then used Splice to put an “intro” video in the beginning of the completed project. This helped the transition nicely. Then I used Dubme to turn the volume on the actual recording down (we talk a lot and I well at her to keep her head still lol) and record my voice over instructions for the tutorial.
It isn’t good at all. If I would redo it, I would move a little bit slower in the video. I felt myself not being able to accurately describe what needed to be done because I was moving so so fast. That way people can follow along a little slower. I feel like that is an important factor in tutorial videos.
In this video tutorial (How to Video, 4 1/2 stars), I showed how to fold an origami paper crane– pretty much what it says on the tin. I learned how to do this when I lived in Japan (5th and 6th grade); the older kids were going on a trip to Hiroshima, and for a whole week, all we did in culture class was fold cranes. (Culture class was where us uneducated American kids learned about our host country. Did you know that Japan exports mandarin oranges?)
Unfortunately, I left all my origami paper at home for the first time this year, because I never used it. Well, guess what– I needed it. This is why I tend to overpack. Instead of actual origami paper, I used a sticky note. It was square and I didn’t have to cut it myself and it wasn’t notebook paper, which was looking like my only option. On the downside, sometimes the sticky bit tried to do its thing, which was less than helpful.
I downloaded about 5 video editors Wednesday night, and couldn’t figure out how to edit stuff from the middle on any of them. I hate to say that Macs are easier to use, but geez, the Mac software is a breeze. The video right now has a mistake in the middle that I tried to cut out, but just couldn’t figure out how to do it. I’m going to visit the ITCC at some point and use their Apple products.
What is juggling exactly? According to the dictionary, to juggle is “to continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.” While this is the literal interpretation of juggling, it is not going to be what I focus on in this story. Focusing solely on the literal interpretation of things is often times boring and if I had to assign a grade to someone who could only do things literally I would probably give him or her a C.
Below is my tutorial on how to literally juggle:
In order to go beyond the bounds of literalness, I am going to teach you about about figuratively juggling. Juggling activities. This summer I am “juggling” three major activities as captured in the image below.
The first activity I am juggling is a full time job. I am a full time summer swim coach for a summer league swim team. My job requires me to work close to 40 hours per week. There are practices every morning from 8:30am until noon and every afternoon from 4:00pm-6:00pm and meets every Wednesday night. In these meets, warm ups begin at 4pm and the final heat is usually not swum until well past 10 pm. Throw in meet entries, which are usually done on Sundays and the team cookouts, bowling trip, and other social events and you’ve got yourself a full time job.
My second activity, by the way these are not in any order of importance or difficulty, is my own personal competitive swim training and competition. I swim everyday except Sundays from 6:00 to 8:00 in the morning. This requires me to wake up at 5:15 every morning. My goal is to swim in both the Commonwealth Games in Waynesboro, Virginia as well as at the Virginia Senior Championship Meet. Senior Champs has “cut off” times (on pages 9-10) that are required to even enter the meet. Believe it or not this meet is swum in the same pool as the 2008 Olympic Trials, which were held in Omaha, Nebraska. The pool was then moved to Richmond, Virginia and is now in the GRAP facility. Don’t ask how they managed to move an entire long course pool half way across the country.Â
Morning Alarms
Competitive swim training is a very significant physical and mental challenge. In addition to the many hours training in the water, usually 10-12 early morning hours of hard training per week, there is the significant “recovery time” for muscles and joints to rebuild and clear lactic acid. Even finding enough time to eat a properly balanced diet and getting enough sleep can be daunting on scorching summer days.
My third major commitment is taking Digital Storytelling 106. This course, which weirdly enough I am talking about within itself, is also a huge time commitment. It requires hours and hours of work in order to produce each assignment. However, each assignment is extremely satisfying to produce. In this course I have created tons of interesting media and have learned how to tell interesting stories that are bolstered by the media I have produced. So far I have produced visual assignments, design assignments, audio assignments and video assignments, which includes this page. I am especially enjoying learning new techniques in Word Press, Photoshop, Garageband, Audacity, and Imovie. Learning new software is challenging because the opportunities to improve your skills are seemingly endless.
So let’s put it all together and walk through an ordinary day. Wake up at 5:15 am to swim in practice from 6-8 am, rush to the pool were I coach the Fry’s Springs Beach Club and try to grab a bite to eat on the way, coach from 8:30 am until noon, eat lunch from 12:20 until 1. Nap from 1 until 2:30. Leave for afternoon practice at 3:30, coach from 4 until 6. Dinner from 6:20 until 7. Work on CPSC 106 from 7 pm until 10 pm. Sleep for a short while. Repeat. Last week’s Schedule is shown below.
Calendar Week of July 11, 2016
Oh and isn’t there something people call a social life? I’m not sure, haven’t had one of those in a while… So while juggling some small spherical balls is a fun party trick, it is important to be able to juggle your life’s commitments also.Â
I hope you can learn three things from me today.
How to literally juggle. ?
How to figuratively juggle many different activities. ?
How to make a cool tutorial that teaches others how to literally juggle.
Below is a tutorial that explains how I made the original tutorial on how to juggle. So if you have not learned anything yet you still have one more chance! Watch the video below and you can learn how to make a cool tutorial video.
All of us use internet to find help with all most everything. And luckily there is a lot of online help available free of any cost, thanks to different internet enthusiasts who share their experiences online. There are tutorial for everything we do. It could be simply eating a banana or fixing a car engine. I have always found video tutorials to be fascinating and helpful.
Once I lost the video on my car DVD player. I tried my best to fix this problem. I took my car battery off to hard reset it. I soft reset it with the reset button several times but in vain. I even took it to a mechanic. He also didn’t know to do fix it. I could only see a “+” sign in the middle of the screen. I turned to Google and tried different keywords. I was able to find a video tutorial after a few minutes of search and it has the simplest working solution possible. I just had to click on the four corners of my DVD screen and BOOM, it was fixed. The point I want to make with the above story is that it’s time to return the favor to the online community. What better way could be out there than making a video tutorial and putting it online?
In the following tutorial I chose to share with my audience a simple tool to fast forward any video. I have used Windows Movie Maker as it is a simple and free video editing tool from Microsoft available for Windows users. To record the video from the screen and my voice with it, I used IceCream Screen Recorder which is available here for a free download.
Original Video Clip in 1X
Video tutorial to fast forward with Windows Movie Maker (includes the fast forwarded clip)
I would also like to write down the steps that I took to make the video tutorial.
Step 1
Open Windows Movie Maker
Step 2
Open the video that you want to fast forward by clicking the “Add video and photos” button on the home tab.
Step 3
Select the video by clicking it and from the “Video Tools” tab, increase the speed from 1x to 4x or whatever you like.
Step 4
The video play time has decreased from around 130 seconds to around 23 second with the same video frames played faster.
Step 5
Click on the “File” menu and save the video output in the format of your choice. I saved it for YouTube.
Step 6
Once you have recorded the whole process with IceCream Screen Recorder, you can again open the video in the Windows Movie Maker and add title slide, credits or music to it. I downloaded some royalty free nice music from BenSound and added it to my video tutorial.
I don’t care what people say about me I am always going be nervous around camera’s but who is not? This Video Assignment takes me on an adventure of how to make a How To video (4 1/2)  (very proud of myself because I am keeping up the  “4”‘s this week)
To produce this video I first did a little research on how to make a video on a mac computer (so embarrassing but some times you just need a little reminder). This is the video I watched:
As it came back to me I then researched “how to” tutorial’s to get an idea of what they were like . So I again searched on youtube for video’s below is a video of “How To Make A YouTube Video”. One of my concerns was that my video would have to have music in it, I guess it is not necessarily true.
So I took what I learned from those two videos and began to make my own. I opened up photo booth the video said to switch the photo mood to video mode which was easy because it was near the photo button. (See below)
Next step to record in photo booth is to hit the red button ( see above the one that looks like a video camera). It usually the goes through a three step timer and then it starts recording.  I then attempted to upload my video to Vimeo, I logged on using my facebook credentials. Well I guess I can say I have had experiences of all experience I had to “Wait in Line” to get my video uploaded on Vimeo (see below):
This week we were assigned to complete 10 stars worth of video assignments. I have linked them both below with a little description.
The first one I completed required I create a product commercial. Considering I had just gone to Wawa and bought a Peach Iced Tea, I decided to create the commercial off the tea. I first thought of how I wanted to film the video and thought about modern day commercials. I then incorporated shots with sound clips and audio, as well as text, to give it that ooh la la effect. One thing I do wish I could of change is that I wish I had bought a tripod prior to filming to reduce the shaking in the camera.
The next video I created was a “How To” video. I wanted to do a little spin off the assignment, and decided to create a parody of a “How To” video. My idea was how to become a video gamer, in a jokingly way, so if you do watch this video (and are a gamer) please do not take offense. This is simply a joke. To do this, I used my boyfriend who is seriously into popular video game, Super Smash Brothers, and directed the way I wanted the clips to be filmed. I then joined the clips with audio and a voiceover to create the final product.
For this assignment you are to make a tutorial video. It doesn’t have to be anything specific, just any type of “how to” or life hack video. Or, to make things more interesting try making a tutorial video on how to make a tutorial video.
