Still Image Final

Still Image Video

                       

Learning Adobe

Adobe premiere was a very interesting software that I am glad I got to be familiar with.This project was very helpful and frustrating! it was only frustrating because when I would leave my work and then come back to it, it would move all my pictures and texts so every time before ! started to work on it again i would have to pretty much redo the whole thing and then begin editing it. Other than that I think it was fascinating to see how Adobe premiere worked think it will be useful in the future.

Animatic 

My video:

This is a very rough draft of my still image photo. It will need a lot more work in the future once i'm more used to using premiere and can figure out how to move things around. I also would say that I need more photos because 5 photos for 2 minutes seems like you are looking at same photo for a long time. I also need to take my own photos for the final project, but for now I just used photos off the internet. 

Challenges I came across:

When I was working in adobe premiere I came across a lot of difficult challenges. For me adobe audition was a lot easier to understand and figure out how to work. With premiere I found that the zooming in or editing the picture to the audio was the most difficult. If you look at my video you see that I tried to zoom in on a person when someone was talking, but it did not work out that way. I spend almost an hour trying to go back and forth trying to get it to work but no matter what I did it kept resetting to the last person I would try to do it with and just move around on that one persons face. I never really found a way how to fix this but i got more used to buttons moving the photo to the left and right and the height up and down depending on who was talking. 

I think more time in class looking at the professor working with premiere will help me get more familiar with the software and be able to navigate around it easier. I did learn how easy it is to just drag the things you are using to edit into the program. This made it go by a lot faster then having to click 5 buttons just to bring it into the program to then start all the editing to it. 

Forum 5

Visual Communication:

Editing:

When editing my still image I added some animations by zooming in and out of some pictures that I used of people when their voice was talking. I did this by selecting the image I was planning on working on then after selecting the photo the top left part of the application changed and allowed me to change the positioning of the photo by moving the scale of the photo. Then when it was to my liking I clicked on the circle that was next to the scaling and that dropped a dot, this allowed my image to have an anchor on that spot that I was working on, that being said, when I played the video from early on it would make it seem like the picture was zooming in or out depending on how I edited the positioning. Other Animations I hope to add in the future will be pop up text to help people stay engaged and find my still image video that much more entertaining. 

Problems That Occurred:

When editing my still image video it came to my attention that I had to match up exactly the persons audio clip and their picture so the audience knows whose talking. This was a problem because I had short audio clips, some as short as a one word answer. This made the picture be really short, which means the next photo had to appear right after the other, the trouble that I had was that the pictures wouldn't get close enough together to have them go by fast. I then realized that I had to pretty much overlap the photos so they would appear back to back.

What I Learned:

I learned how to place the photos a lot more efficiently next to each other, I also learned that putting photos of the actual person talking is a lot more entertaining then random people that I find online, thankfully I followed the people that walked up to me on social media so I knew of them and could take pictures off of their social media profiles, with their permission of course. 

FORUM ASSIGNMENT #1: Audio Stories

interview clips: which help engage the audience. Having interview clips also help people belive what they are hearing is true; it is a lot more believable when someone who does this for a living is telling you the information rather than someone just talking to you about the situation. 

voice overs are helpful when summarizing who is being interviewed. instead of using everything that they said in the interview it is mpore helpful to hear a summary. 

natural sounds: I heard in this podcast was typing or phone calls, this kept me engaged and more interested in the podcast. The podcast would say "then she called" and then they would put a phone ringing to make you feel like you are actually there

 Ambient sounds: rain was an ambient sound i heard in this podcast, they got a clip from someone on a news channel, the rain in the background made it more realistic.

the moment of reflection that the podcast I listend to was when they lead you along the whole time telling us what was going on and using the other block that ira glass said to use was the sequence. After all of that though they said that gave us a statement that said "and we're gonna tell you why this is all happening" this is a moment of reflection because it keeps us engaged to want to hear the bigger point that they are trying to make. 

Audio Story

Hotdog = Sandwich?

I got to hear many different people's opinions on whether they thought a hotdog was considered a sandwich or not. Oddly enough all the people that I randomly asked that were just people on the street all said the same answer as the other people I asked on the street. Same goes with all the experts I asked, all the experts had the same answer as one another. I'm not sure if that really answers the question for if a hotdog is a sandwich or not, just based of the couple experts I asked but what I do know that it is a very opinionated question that takes a lot of thought to what you would categoriza  a hotdog as. 

Forum 3

https://soundcloud.com/julie-grimes-105618076/forum3

Experts:

For my experts I choose to do one from a hotdog restaurant when I went home the other weekend. He has been working there for over 15 years and they are most famous for their hotdogs. I know people that when they are visiting the area they have to go to this restaurant. For my other expert I am doing someone at Starbucks because they spend all day making breakfast sandwichs for people. 

Foley Sound Effects: 

For my sound effects i decided to create my own. For one of them I did myself cooking eggs and took the sizzling from the egg hitting the pan. For my second foley sound effect I did my friend eating chips. Although she wasn't eating a hot dog when people hear the sound they will think of food which is the general idea I want people to be imagining. 

Is a Hotdog a Sandwhich?

I did My topic on something I think everyone could have an opinion about, even if they don't eat hot dogs they most likely know what they are and can express if they think it is a sand-which or not. for my blog it was difficult because I was hoping to get more or a variety of answers instead everyone answered the same which made it less interesting. Even though that was the case I didn't want to plan out what people were going to say I let them answer honestly and share their true opinion on the topic.