Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Global Warming Movie: FATP, Mindmap, Story Outline


Form: Video

Audience: Classmates, people interested in global warming
Topic: Global Warming

Purpose: To inform and evoke emotion about the seriousness of global warming.
Outline:
Music: Postal Service "Sleeping in"
Intro: Title, Global Warming pic, video of me (quoting Al Gore)
Body: Pictures of pollution, concept "global warming" pictures, polar bears, melting ice caps, desert, animals in danger, smog, bleached coral
*Inserts* in body: Facts about global warming taken from National Geographic
Conclusion: Picture of frozen green leaf, credits and sources


Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Animation and Storyboard Reflection

Ahh... what a project! It was actually fun once I got going, but I do not consider myself a creative person- and coming up with a concept and visualizing what to do was pretty hard for me. Looking at my final product, I think if I hadn't been OVER thinking the concept, I could have come up with something better.

On Toondoo, the features are pretty straight forward, and it is not very hard to track what you want to do. One thing I did (thankfully after I had saved my toon), was somehow dragged my tab from the first screen into the middle toon, which overlapped it. I then could not figure out how to reverse what I had done (and even my little sister who has had to use toondoo before as well couldn't figure it out). Like I said, thankfully I had saved it, but it made me freak out for a short minute.

On GoAnimate.com, I enjoyed working on my animation a little more than the toon. It was really easy and once again straightforward to use, and there is an "undo" button, so you can test out as many features as you want and still be able to undo them. (I don't think I found that button on toondo?).

Overall, I did enjoy doing this project, minus the small glitches that I ran into along the way.

Global Warming Animation

GoAnimate.com: Global Warming by Hilaryw01


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!


I kept with the Global Warming idea with my animation, and besides brainstorming forever on something clever for my characters to say, I do enjoy the final outcome.

FATP: Comic Storyboard

Form: Comic Strip
Audience: Classmates, other Toondoo-ers!

Topic: Global Warming
Purpose: Inform about global warming



Podcast- Basics of Guitar/ Reflection

After a LONG LONG LONG time of trying to figure out how to upload my podcast, I finally got it. Even though some creepy voice interjected its way in in my windows movie maker.... so here's the link, if you can suffer through the paranormal woman in the background..... :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3P72Z

I enjoyed doing this project once I watched a screencast on how to use the AVS application. At first, I was trying to find sound clips off of the internet to use for my intro and outro music, but after hours of having issues, I decided to just record myself and the few things that I know how to do on the guitar. Mixing in the music clips with myself talking was not hard at all, but I knew it was too easy to be true. My sound file for some reason is over 40 MB, and houndbite only hosts clips up to 8 MB. Currently still trying to figure out how to fix this issue, so STAND BY :)

Monday, August 3, 2009

Script for Podcast- Basics of Guitar

Script- The basics of learning Guitar

Intro of speaker: This is Hilary from Multimedia Applications out of CCV, Vermont

Broadcasting from South Ryegate, VT

Intro Music: Me playing short guitar piece

Introduction:

-- Thanks for tuning in to the Basics of Guitar. In this podcast I will explain the very first things you should know before beginning playing guitar.

Sponsor: Thanks to CCV!

Focus/ Body:

Materials

-Guitar
-Pick
-Passion


What's this?


-Strings
-Frets
-Tuning pegs
-Neck
-Headstock

Tips

-Short fingernails
-Armless chair
-Practice


Finale:

-Bibliography- www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-guitar-for-newbies - "How to play Guitar for Newbies"
- Thanks again to CCV for sponsoring

Outro Music: Me playing a different guitar piece

FATP proposal and Mindmap- Guitar Podcast



Form: Podcast


Audience: Class, people interested in learning guitar


Topic: Basics of Guitar


Purpose: To aid beginner guitarist's in preparing and learning to play

I chose to stick with my guitar theme, it seemed fitting!