MyLife Blog Reflection

1: My MyLife video is posted below.

2:
A: I used one song that was a soundtrack, and on rock song in my project.
B: I used the songs "I'll be there for You", by The Rembrants and "How to Save a Life", by The Fray.
C: I chose these different pieces, because both were about life, and my project was about my life.

3:
A: I searched on Google using phrases like "Top Ten Billboard Songs 1995" or "1995 Fashion". I also went to different newspaper sites and typed "August 30, 1995" to find headlines from the day I was born.
B:I used Google for all my searches.
C: I did not find any unreliable sources. I saw Wikipedia at the top of most of my search results, but I did not use it because I do not trust it.

4: I used iPhoto, iMovie, Keynote, scanned photos, and took screen shots.

5: In this project I was good at setting up transitions in Keynote, and putting in my photos.

6: Setting up the music in my project, and deciding what music I was going to put in my project were the hardest parts of this project for me.

7:
A: Yes, I decided to use mostly still slides.
B: I decided on still slides because it made my information easier to read.
C: I did not use the same theme throughout my movie. I actually used a changed themes every slide.
D: I changed themes every slide because I thought it looked better, and gave it more originality. I also chose themes that matched with what was on the slide.

8: I used video to show how long I have been alive, and put in a video some other guys and I had made in Tech Apps at the end of class when we had finished out work. I put this video in after my slide about PND, as an extension of that slide.

9: If I ever needed to put slides from Keynote into iMovie for anything, I could use the skills I learned doing this project to do that. I could also use the skills I learned doing this project if I ever needed to make a movie or presentation about events in my life or someone else's.

10: I used the songs I used for my project, which was not what they were originally meant for. My pictures were already mine, but still, they were not meant for this purpose. I also changed the size of the pictures, and did not play all of "How to Save a Life".

11: I would like to do another project like this one on my own, because I new how to do everything that I needed to, and I liked looking through all my old photos.

MyLife

Music Genome Project

1: I chose Alternative Music for my genre, because it is my favorite genre, and normally has actual meaning in the lyrics.

2: I was able to use some songs from my itunes library, and others I got from YouTube via Zamzar. Zamazr was difficult at points, but it pulled through and got me my music and videos in the end.  I found a very good site with all the information I needed, and it confirmed many thoughts  I had about the alternative genre.

3:I used Zamzar, Garageband, and iMovie to create my project.

The best part of my project was finding the songs from my own library that I wanted to use, because I love alternative, and I knew which videos had a point that would be good for a transition into the next song.

4: I struggled with timing the transitions right for a while, but what really got me was getting the music from Garageband to iMovie, and putting in videos and music that I got from the internet.

5: I decided to use plenty of still slides, because I liked how the Ken Burns effect looked with zooming them out, and I think it helps to focus a viewer's attention more on the text I put in about alternative music.

6: I actually became better than I ever thought I would be with Garageband, iMovie, and Zamzar than I ever thought I would be, and could use this for Biology, World Studies, or any class where I might need to make a presentation. It will also come in handy if I ever need to make a presentation for my job.

7: My music, pictures, and videos from the internet were changed because they were used for my educational purposes (which is not what they were intended for), and because they were cut up and transitioned into other music, videos, or pictures.

8: I probably would not like to do a project too much like this on my own again, because even though I learned a lot, I am not too good with computers, and it was very frustrating at points. It also kept me up late at night working on it, but that was partly my fault. Still, I thought this project was pretty good, and I would like to do something like it again, but not something exactly like it (because I'm bad with computers).

Music Genome Project

PND Culture: Football

1. Identify your team's topic

 A: Our team's topic was the PND football program.

2. Describe your role on the team.

 A: On out team I helped film, ask questions, and set up the story board and questions that we used.

3. What did you learn from being a part of this team?

 A: From being on this team I learned how to share documents in Gmail and use the green-screen affect in iMovie.

4. What went well for you as a team?

A: The interviews went very well for our team, and ran smoothly.

5. What did not go well for you as a team?

A: A lot of times we were not sure what we were supposed to do next, or didn't have enough ready to do for everyone in the group to be doing something at the same time.

6. Describe the process from storyboarding through the movie creation. Did ideas/concepts/focus change from one kind of technology to the other? If so, how?
A: While we were making our storyboard we were each coming up with good questions that we should ask in our interviews, and questions that people might have that would need to be answered.We changed from just recording you also using the green screen affect.

7. What new tools and techniques did you learn by doing this project?
A: We used imovie and the green screen affect in this project, which were new to us.

8. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?
A: This could be used for any class where I need to make a convincing presentation, such as Literature. This would also come in handy if I ever needed to make a presentation or interview someone for my job.

9. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc., How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.? We took images from Google, and used them for backgrounds, which is not what they were originally intended for.

10.Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?

I would not want to do another project exactly like this, but one like it, because I didn't do as much of the parts with iMovie or the green screen affect as Max or Tate did. I would like to learn how to use both of those features, though.