I had a great experience with this project. My group was extremely fun to work with and everyone had a different way to express how they communicate. I chose to communicate through my artwork, Greg chose to do it through media and literature, Aaron communicates through writing, and Calvin does it through photography. I think that all four concepts worked well together. All of our videos individually showed our personalities and still communicate the topic of communications extremely well without words. All of our videos as a group flowed smoothly and we all came together to make sure our concept was portrayed perfectly. Each one of us had our own individual struggles, but once we got into working together and piecing the whole video together, we did a great job.
My biggest struggle personally was converting my files from windows to work properly on the Mac. It was really difficult because I started my project in Windows Movie Maker and it was finished, it would not open in iMovie because the file was saved as wmmv. So, since my video is a stop motion, I ended up loading all 430 photos onto my dropbox account, and downloaded it onto the Mac I was working on. After they downloaded, I made them into 3 separate slideshows in iPhoto, then I was able to put each slide show into iMovie and start working on editing. Unfortunately, my original computer did not allow me to create a new event, so I was not able to start working right away. Finally, I moved over to another computer and put all the slideshows together. Once they were together I had to blend each clip so it was not visible that it is not only one clip. After, I added my music, and that took forever. I wanted the music to start and end at a specific spot so that it was not awkward when I added it to the group. I ended up clipping the last instrumentals on the song and pasting in in at the point I wanted the lyrics to end. All in all I think I created a wonderful masterpiece.
As a group, I don't feel like we struggled much together. We all were extremely open to ideas and we all are good a certain things so we each used that to our advantage when putting the group video together in iMovie. Calvin definitely was a great asset to our team because he was a little more familiar with the editing than the rest of us. Aaron's video was awesome, it was really well thought out and he was great at picking music for our group video. Greg brought a lot of fun and he did a great job learning how to work with iMovie and even taught me some things. When working together, we each did a different thing when it came to editing. We split up to duties of cropping, adding music, adding effects and adding transitions. I worked with the transitions and I think that we actually worked really well together when picking them out.
I think we all had trouble when uploading all of our videos. A lot of us had issues uploading to DropBox. I know I had issues with Vimeo, mostly because it took way too much time. Video takes forever to upload compared to YouTube, and it also is not as easy as YouTube to navigate.The easiest video sharing site we used, and the only one I am really familiar with is YouTube. I think that YouTube is definitely more advanced and well known so it made it a lot easier and hassle free. Vimeo is really weird to me; I personally do not like the design of the website nor do I care for the feed that pops up when I log in, when the videos are not relative to me. I logged in today to check out my video again, and my feed was full of cats...I do not even like cats. I guess for Vimeo that top videos are picked by the staff, as with YouTube the top videos are rated by people all around the world. Vimeo is almost ad free, so that is nice. Personally, ads really do not bother me, but sometimes it is nice to be without a million advertisements in your face all at once.I just think I like to stick to what I know and I am more comfortable with it.
Using video as a communication tool instead of writing and photographs is different. You can see the emotions of people, hear sounds and words they are saying, actually communicate more personally. Having instantaneous interaction via video communication is great because you can always be close to people no matter how far away they are. Videos help people with the lack of face to face interaction between people now a days. Photographs are only a millisecond moment in your life and videos can be much longer than that, You can capture more than one moment, you can capture many. Video as a communication tool is also a creative concept. I personally, am all about creative communication.
I think that the public nature of my video allowed the subject matter to stand out. The fact that I used art work to communicate the message of my life and how I communicate creatively in my own daily life. My video was straight forward, fast paced, and understandable. The public nature was perfect for my topic of creative communication. I think that each video from my group members allowed the subject matter to stand out do to the public nature of their videos as well. Aaron used his journalistic writing and reporting process to convey the message of journalistic communication. Greg used religious literature and movies to display that he is influenced by visual and literary communication. Calvin used photographs that he has taken and video of him taking photographs with all different cameras to tell us about him as a photographer and that he communicates via photography. All of the public nature of each video explains the subject matter of different forms of communication that relate to ourselves.
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