The introductory project for Multimedia Journalism was a one-minute video bio. All of the images that aren’t OF me were created by me. I used WeVideo to put the project together.
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Central Hudson v. Public Service Commission (in the style of Dr. Seuss)
In my Media Ethics class I had to come up with a creative, entertaining way to explain the Central Hudson c. Public Service Commission Supreme Court case. What’s more creative and entertaining than Dr. Seuss?! I wrote out a rhyming, Seuss-ified script and presented it to my class while they ate fruit snacks and sat on the large area rug I had brought with me. My professor was so amused that she asked to have the license to use it for future classes. I offered to do her one better and make an illustrated video version. I made every element of this video myself. The images were drawn in Photoshop, I recorded my narration in QuickTime, and I compiled the whole thing in iMovie. On a sidenote, I’m not sure why my American Supreme Court Justice has a British accent....
Read More10 Lessons Learned WIP
For my Professional Presentations class I needed to make a self-advancing slideshow with some kind of audio. I chose “10 Lessons” for my topic. After batting a few ideas around, I decided I wanted my slideshow to have a strong “time” theme, so I thought it might be neat to use a steampunk-flavored design and an instrumental version of the song, “Too Late to Apologize.” I really wanted to implement the movements of an old-fashioned clock. To pull this off I had to do quite a bit of research and fiddling around in PowerPoint. I made a tutorial documenting my findings here. Due to the number of animations I used, the slideshow didn’t play properly with the music. I used Quicktime to screencapture pieces of the presentation and spliced it all together in Avid to make sure all the animations would line up properly to the beat. It’s been pretty work-intensive! I probably won’t get around to splicing it all together, especially now that I’m learning how much easier all of this would be to do in After Effects. While I will probably never use PowerPoint for something this elaborate again, it was well worth it to stun my professor and classmates when it was my turn to present!...
Read MoreTutorial: “Clockwork” Effect in Powerpoint
Download Link This podcast was quite the multimedia adventure. I edited the clock face from a stock vector (Clock Vector by Fatalyze at deviantArt) in Photoshop, then live traced it in Illustrator. I also created the clock hands in Illustrator. I imported both into Microsoft Powerpoint, where I created the clockwork effect as described in this tutorial. I used Quicktime to record the screen capture and my voice, then imported the video into iMovie, where I had to tweak the audio controls to bring out my voice. Next, I created the music in GarageBand. I used a lot of rubber-banding to control the volumes of the different lines of music. I made all of the static images in Photoshop. I kept them simple because I wanted them to reflect the design of my website, which is quite minimalist. I deliberately chose a sans serif font that would contrast with my busy logo. One objective of this assignment was to keep the podcast under 5mb, which limited the amount of video I could implement without really sacrificing quality. It’s still too fuzzy for my tastes unless it’s kept to a minimal size, but its small file size allows for easy downloading or streaming, which is important for simple tutorial videos like these. My target audience for this podcast is people like me, who enjoy trying new things and learning on their own, but don’t want to wait for a huge file to...
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