EDLD+5363+Multimedia+Video+Technology

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Course Reflection:

This course has covered many areas that will be of interest to students and myself. The first project covered digital storytelling. It was interesting to look at my life and see what would make a good story and could be told in an interesting way with the resources and pictures I already had on hand. This required some time and thought as well as the use of a camera and editing software, i.e. Photostory, to tell the story. The pictures had to be edited and arranged so that they fit the story I wanted to tell. The voiceovers also had to be edited so that they flowed with the pictures. These same skills were used in future weeks as well when working with Moviemaker and Audacity. It takes many attempts in order to not only record what you want correctly but to also edit it down to fit into the time frames that are needed. Of course with planning ahead you can go into the process well informed so that you do exactly what you need instead of just making shots in the dark and coming out with not enough or the wrong stuff. Production is made easier because of Pre-Production work. In Production you can record, take pictures and edit it all in order to fit into your project. This does take time but it wasn’t so bad especially when working as a group and dividing up the tasks. Once you have everything in place then you can go through and edit it some more to fit within time frames and to make sure that the flow of it is the way you want. This could mean eliminating some items that you like but that don’t fit as well as other items do. With the use of sites like YouTube it also makes it easy to share your finished work with each other and the world. This made it easier to work over distance because we could easily send our work to each other and thus put the whole project together with each person helping.