A Pause in Time Blog - 9

Woooohooo extra time. Sorry that you're sick Sir, but wooohooo extra time. I need to add more pictures or bloopers as the video isn't long enough. I also need to put it onto a CD and guess what I just know that that's going to be a big problem. I think that I'm not going to have the right CD or it won't play on anyone elses computer, something like that. Fingers crossed there won't be a problem!!

RSS - Spy Kid Central!!!

1. RSS is a spy kid central. Noooo just joking it really stands for Really Simple Syndication and to make it even more simpler syndication is where the website material is made available to other people in an easier way. It is the format for distributing news and other web content. When you put content into RSS and it is sent to other people or websites, it is called a feed. RSS is not just used for blogs it can be used for many other website content.

2.A feed is a format used to publish works. Therefore the things that go into a feed is all your updated works that you want publish, such as blogs like the one I am writing now, audio, newsletters and video. You can have a partial feed and a full feed. A partial feed includes a headline and a quick summary with a link to the website where the rest of the content is located. A full feed is when you don't need a link back to the website it is already there in the news reader, therefore there is no need to go back to the website to fetch the content.

3.Feeds keep you updated but they do it in a way where you can manage the flow of information you recieve. There is no need for searching the web the information is sent straight to your desktop.

4.Feeds are different from emails because feeds are relevant to the person reading them. Emails are just throwing things at your face when you don't even want them. They don't want to hear from companies they have dealt with. They want information on their past purchasing habits in a way in which they have the power to control it. RSS feeds are also anonymous so you don't have to give out your email address

5.To read a feed you have to obtain a newsreader or content aggregator. These things offer special features such as combining several related feeds into single view, hiding items the viewer has already seen and categorizing feeds and items, basically making it more organized for you.

6.To find the feeds you want to subscribe to you have to obtain a reader and then there is a little RSS button that will come up in an orange or grey colour that will enable you to view any other updated content as well from that website as a feed.

How Cool is Spy Kid Central ;)

Snip Snap!!! Blog - 8

Tomorrow is my birthday!! I have to get all the editing done on the video before tomorrow because who wants to be doing homework and assignments on their birthday. I did heaps of snips and snaps and cuts and edits and splices. I did all of this on Magix movie edit pro. It has the coolest transitions and you can do heaps with the movie to make it look absolutely awesome. For example there is one where you can put the video in a picture frame that is sitting on a table. I was going to use that but then I didn't because it didn't suit the whole news story theme. I have to get it done before tomorrow.

This is the Last to Get it Right Blog - 7

This is the Last Time to get it Right,
This is the last time to make it our night,
We gotta show what we're all about,
Gotta, Work Together!!
Yeah!
'Lyrics to Now or Never High School Musical 3' (Love it)

Today was our last day of filming. Focus, Focus, Focus. We had a lot to film in very little time but today we were more down to earth than on Wednesday. We filmed the Breaking News section where we thought we were able to use the IST rooms although we couldn't find sir to ask him. We needed the slidy chairs that were in the room, so we had to improvise by sliding on the seats that we sit at to eat. I think my skirt got a big beating. It took a lot of tries for me to stop my skirt getting caught every time I slid in and said 'Breaking News, news, news, news.' We also filmed the weather section where Michaela jumped into view. 'Chances of Showers or not' e.t.c. e.t.c.
The sport section was very funny. We couldn't get a video of the soccer ball hitting a persons head so we inprovised again, using my head as the target but instead of a soccer ball we used a mandarin. This was a lot more softer and squishier and unfortunately the mandarin didn't make it. We also did a couple of bloopers because we finished earlier. it hit my head at first and then the second time Michaela caught it. Thank Goodness. While we were filming we came up with some more ideas to make it even funnier and we all worked together really well.
Some of the bloopers were raining mandarins and interviews with the mandarin and the hand that was squeezing the mandarin.
We worked very hard this lunchtime and got a lot of work done. We couldn't go over to eachother's house on the weekend as we were all busy. Besides it was due the week after and it was
'The last time to get it right,
The last time to make it our night,
To show what we're all about,
NOW OR NEVER!!
Yeah!!'

What we are Heading For (Synopsis) Blog - 6

Since we have finally figured out what we are going to do after THINKING over the weekend, it's time to do a synopsis. Our video is going to be a news segment including the weather, breaking news, a sports section and a reenactment of the cadbury eyebrow advertisement. At the start there is going to be pictures of the people included in the making of the news segment and at the end as well. The purpose of our video is to make people laugh and entertain as well as twisting the real news stories a little bit.

Balloons are so Annoying Blog - 5

Today we started filming.................. Finally. We started off with the advertisement as we didn't have much time during lunch and we needed to film something short. The night before I had downloaded the eyebrow ad music so I could remind everyone of the tune. We started filming and that pink balloon really got on my nerves. I mean, in the real ad it isn't really annoying but for some reason the way that were making it musical was ear piercing. It was like sudden screams were coming from all around you. Anyway I got my anger out before we went on camera and tried to block the noise out.
We had an audition as well to see who could move their eyebrows the best. It turned out with only me moving eyebrows and michelle already blew up the balloon so she was the one who made the small screams.
We did about 10000 million shots, it took forever, at least a lot more than I was expecting. Next time we have to time ourselves better and stop mucking around.
P.S. I'll get you pink balloon you can count on it. HAHAHAHAHAH!!

Practice Makes Perfect Blog - 4

Today we had a run through of what we were doing because I didn't bring the camera. Unfortunately Lenia wasn't here so we just practised the segment. It was quite fun and we all got to know our lines very well. We were very preapared for the real thing. We did a lttle bit of editing as some of it didn't really make sense. We came up with even more ideas for it and went home with some homework which was getting the music for the different segments and things like that.

The More the Merrier!! Blog - 3

THE NEWS STORY we have decided to do a news story............. over a long weekend of thinking we have decided to do a news story.
Today we met again, sir came up to us and talked to us about Micheleee leaving and guess what, it turns out we get to have a new girl in our group."The More the Merrier". Her name is Lenia and I'm sure she'll have some great ideas. I brought the camera in from home and I fiddled around with it to see if it could cope with the noise and the difference in lighting and things like that.
We finished off the script today and collected our parts. Nicole didn't want to be on camera so she was our camera man but Michaela and I were confident enough. Michaela was very good at coming up with ideas for the news story. Ihope the way that we will present those ideas will be funny. We all talked and discussed different ways of presenting the news story and incorporated ideas that we each had. I wonder if we could have a hair and make-up crew, that would be cool. We also decided that next lesson is going to be a run-through.

The Break-up - Blog 2

Today the group got together again and Michelleee had some news to tell us. She was moving to another group and mixing with the other class. Geez Michelle just ditch us.......... Jokes, Jokes it's cool. Luckily we haven't made many decisions or had many discussions because she is leaving but we sort of have an idea in our head and we have to change the roles a little bit but we can deal with it.

I Hate making Decisions-Blog 1

Today was full of making decisions which I am really not good at. We were given our assignments and were told to think about the people in our group. We had to create a movie and the first thing that popped into my head was "FUNNY"!! I had never really made a movie before so I was really excited and I love watching funny movies myself. The people that were in our group were Michaela, Nicole, Michelle and I. We hadn't really thought of an idea yet but we had some little bursts of thoughts such as a short, funny, simple story, a slapstick comedy like cat and mouse, a news documentary including funny news reporters and jokes or maybe even silent movie. Wait scratch that it has to have some sort of narration. Never mind. We could also do something like the show "Who's Line is it Anyway" which is a series of tasks hilarious comedians are asked to do. Or maybe "Thank God You're Here". That movie is one of the funniest shows when it has the right people on it. We are still brain storming, I hope we come up with something. I hate making decisions!!!

Psapp (movie/slideshow)

Hi Sir, this is my movie/slideshow/narrated movie/ok no more /. It incorporates 2 of the tasks 1.5 and 2 Making a movie/slideshow and narrating a movie/slideshow. I bet you're wondering what psapp is. Well, it's the name of the group who sing the song that's playing in the background at the start of like every single Grey's Anatomy episode. Do you watch Grey's Anatomy. If not I would definitely recommend that you start watching it.

This is how I made it.

Well, I just followed the instructions that you gave us..............

Ok,ok firstly I surfed the internet and found some Grey's anatomy pictures of the major things that I remember from what I watched in Grey's anatomy. It took me a while, you'd be surprised it's hard trying to find particular scenes from you're favourite shows as images. Then I saved them all into one folder and imported all of them into moviemaker. I then went to look at some video transitions!!! Yay(sarcastic) there were 'so many of them'. scrolling down and down and down. I eventually chose some simple ones such as checkerboard or bars because I didn't want anything too dramatic, although I did like the different shatter transitions they were cool.

I then went to the narrating task and made my first copy. Well, how bad was that. I had stage fright wait.... or is it computer fright. Anyway, it took me about 7 goes to try and get it right but during that seven I wanted to make my movie with the Grey's anatomy theme song in the background because it sounded a bit weird with just my voice. I tried recording with the sound and then overlapping the original later but it was just a bunch of jibba jabba. I knew it said something about it on the instructions like Mute Speakers this is because it didn't play the audio music track I already had in my movie and I didn't want it playing while I was recording because it would've been unwanted sound. In the end I just played it while I was recording and deleted the original after I was finished the only reason for this was that I tried recording without the music but my voice was too low when I played it with the theme song so playing the theme song while I was recording was much easier to tell if my voice was loud enough. By the way, how do you do make your voice louder and the other piece of music softer? I tried moving the input level slider but it didn't seem to do anything, that I noticed.

Finally when I had my narration done I clicked and dragged it in. I then played it through and saved it to 'My Videos' a 'wmv' file and uploaded it to my blogger and here I am talking to you about it now.

Ohaiyoo1 and Ohaiyoo 2-Video Characteristics

I've learnt that when you upload a video to the internet there are a few things that you need to consider:

-Frame rate

-Colour depth

-Resolution

b).So, I saved the two different 'short videos' as Video for dial up access (38kbps) who's nickname is ohaiyoo1 and Video for IDSN (48kbps) who's nickname is ohaiyoo2. I found that the difference was that ohaiyoo2 was a lot more clearer and the pixels were not very visible to the human eye, the resolution was higher . In Ohaiyoo1 the resolution was very low which made the whole video seem shaky. The colour depth; the number of bits that represent colour in each pixel was not very distinguished which made the overall colour very grey and blended together as a result of the resolution. The video was also very jittery and jumpy because frame rate was very low compared to ohaiyoo2. Ohaiyoo2 the number of bits per pixel or colour depth was very high and gave a broader range of distinct colours. It is a lot more clear for the viewers and the particular movements of the people in the video were a lot more smooth compared to ohaiyoo1.

c). I think that ohaiyoo2 is the better quality from the differences above and because it is faster by the amount of data that can flow in a given time as it is 48kbps and ohaiyoo1 is 38kbps.(kbps=kilobits per second-thousands of bits per second) It is also better quality as it has a higher resolution, colour depth and frame rate.

Exams are Over!!!

This is the first movie I have ever narrated in my life. My inspiration to make this film was that my exams were finally finished with 3 in one day. I was listening to the song 'When love takes Over' by Kelly Rowland and David Guetta and these words just started to flow into my mind. I got home and looked up the instructions on how narrate using audacity. Thankfully I had audacity already. I then found the song that I wanted and imported it onto audacity. After that I read through a long piece of infromation from wikipedia and I comprehended it. I then went to edit and preferences making sure I had clicked the 'play song while I am recording' button. I started recording and I did it about 6 times before I got it right. I probably looked like an idiot yelling into my computer.........but anyway. I compressed the song so that it would be smaller and I used the equalizer so it would be compatible or not sound like muffle on my phone. After that I tried changing the pitch of my voice but it didn't really work out so I left it like that. I then exported it as an mP3 file and inported it into movie maker where I added pictures from the internet and pictures that I had created myself. I also started using some video transitions as well.

I reckon the words are pretty witty and interesting I think. This is just another practice one leading up to the assignment. I also learnt new things as I was doing it like a little bit more on how to use audacity and more on moviemaker. WALLA!!!