So the final project or making a narrative slideshow on my passion/hobby – film was a good way to show an artistic perspective and master several skills. I started off with trying to come up with a narration, I went through several drafts but in the end I ended up with three excerpts that I divided up through the two minutes (beginning, middle and end). As shown below:
1) Video making is more than just a passion for me...it’s an escape. Even just the feel of a video camera in my hands makes my creativity flow. My heart beats with delight when I think about the essence of Hollywood---teamwork, professionalism, and artistic expression.
2) When we made our short movies, we did not necessarily need a certain time of day or hundreds of dollars to purchase equipment and hire actors. We were not that intense. We knew we were not them. It was more of a pleasurable hobby, just friends passing the time. As long as we had a camera, and people nearby who were willing to act in our movies, we were golden.
3) Ideas just bubbled up, and my friends and I felt the urge to express them through video making. It is incredible to transform a dream into a reality. To actually take a thought or idea and turn it into an image on the screen to share with others.
Once I knew what I was going to say, I needed to find twenty pictures relating to video making/film. This proved to be extremely time consuming because it was hard to find pictures pertaining to people working on the set let alone in high resolution. Once I found a good solid eighteen to twenty pictures I than inserted them into Photoshop to check the resolution and resize them and than resizing and arrangement in PowerPoint by dragging or inserting the images in.
Furthermore, I wanted the first two slides to be none pictures to go with a natural sound I was going to use for about ten seconds (a film projector). I made a title screen that said “Video Making” and my name in Cracked font with a red outlining to stand out and a little film strip art image by its side. For the second slide I found and used a quote that summed up film making to me as well. The quote related video making to poetry or expressing your mind or dreams through moving images.
So once the first two slides were done and all the pictures, I had to insert sound into the first slide to run for just two slide which was the film projector noise. And than background music I found. I set all slides to run after previous and set them to a six second timer.
I than did command shift 4 on each slide and made them a png which I than converted to a jpeg in Iphoto. Later, I recorded my narration using audacity and divided each of the three excerpts up. It was audible because I lowered the background music and increased the narration. In audacity I copied the narration, background music and film project in the first ten seconds made sure it was all arranged perfectly than exported it as wav and put it into iTunes to convert to an mp3.
I than made a separate folder for the pictures and the mp3. I opened sound slide made a new project selected the jpeg folder of my slides and than the sound folder. I rearranged all the pictures and clicked the tab to change the heading to Video Making. I than exported the final project in soundslides to make a publish to web folder which I than posted to webng and the blog following my instructions:
1) I needed to create one file from all the items in the publish to web folder made from sound slides
2) I selected all items in the folder
3) Right Click > compress items > archive zip
4) Went to webng.com account I made dtodrys697.webng.com
5) File manager
6) New: Slide Show Test > Create directory
7) Click on new folder
8) Upload files
9) Browse > Find the zip made from publish to web folder >Open > click upload button
10) Click check box next to zip
11) Click unzip button > ok
12) Click check box next to .zip > Delete
13) Click url link on top (under file manager title)
14) Copy And paste website url to blog by using soundslide embed utility http://www4.soundslides.com/apps/utilities/
15) copied embed code into the edit html tab under post in blogspot
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