Video Editing

Through these videos, I learned the basics of iMovie. I learned how to insert music into iMovie, (or other voices) by turning off the volume of the piece you want music to cover, then importing your song, and clicking and dragging it into the section you want it to play over. I also learned how to better organized my videos so that they make more sense and are more appealing to viewers. When you're done editing your video, you can export it as an iMovie file and choose the quality and size of the file depending on how clear and concise you want it to be, and depending on how much space you have on your computer.

News Podcast

For the news podcast, I read a news article about Shirley Temple's death. I read straight into audacity, then edited out all of the mistakes, and shortened it down to a little over a minute. Then I exported it into garageband and added chapters and pictures throughout my reading to make it more interesting. When I was done, I exported that into iTunes so I could listen to it and watch the images play though. Then I turned it in.

Sound intro and hearing loss

Sound travels in waves, and is measured in hertz (Hz).  When editing a song that contains a bad word, instead of just taking the word out and messing up the beat of the song, you can reverse the word, so that the song flows smoothly, and the word in inaudible. 

Hearing loss is becoming more and more of an issue with our generation. Wearing headphones is a big cause of people younger than 65 losing their hearing, and hearing loss is not reversible. Our generation is overly exposed to noise with sirens, concerts, big events, etc. The average age that one starts to lose their hearing with decrease dramatically over the next 20-30 years because of our exposure to noise.

Ethics reading

Digital Photography, a piece by Bonnie Meltzer, talks about how manipulating photos is not only sometimes disrespectful to the people in the photo, but also doesn't look great most of the time. I couldn't agree more with her statement. When people photoshop one person out of a picture for another person or move them to a different background in another photo, it often looks tacky and unprofessional. If you're moving a person from one image to another with consent, it's one thing, but to move a person to a different background without consent it's rude, and reflects a bad image on yourself. Photoshop is a very good tool to have, and it's different when you're photoshopping tourists out of your vacation photos. If it's your own photo, and what you're doing won't harm another person, or disrespect them in any way, then you can edit any of your photos that you please; But if the image is not your own or your making a noticeable switch of something that would be considered manipulating the photo, don't bother taking the time to edit the image.

Photoshop examples

In the photoshop unit, I was able to learn how to use the many tools and filters in the photoshop CC application. One tool that I really liked using was the clone stamp tool. I was able to take out part of a picture by cloning part of the image and coving the part I want to remove with it. Below is an example of a picture that I took while I was in Paris over the summer. I was able to edit myself out of it using the clone stamp.

Original Picture

Picture I edited myself out of using clone stamp

iPhoto Slideshow

When making a slideshow in iPhoto, all you have to do is select all of the photos you want included in the show, then go down and click the Slideshow button at the bottom of the window. Once the slideshow pops up, another window will appear at the bottom of the screen where you can edit how the photos appear, the music, and different details about the show. It's fairly easy to make a slideshow in iPhoto, and it's also very customizable to your taste.

Photo Credit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB07tmVboJmI86F4DrLpwI0bv-ngEpIxNS5adNDgywM/edit

Photo editing - tutorials part 1

Hello and welcome to my blog portfolio for multimedia. Currently, I am working on organizing and editing photos using iPhoto for our first unit in class. iPhoto is not very hard to use and the videos have taught me how to create albums, move images between sources, change the image thumbnail size, and much more. iPhoto also has something called a smart album. In this, you can choose between a number of specifications including, date, place, size, etc, and it will pull images from your library for the album.

Terms of use assignment

Terms of use blog post assignment

Flickr: The free use photos pool

Terms of use - Anyone can use these photos without the need of credit to the owner or fear of copyright.

Creative commons/White stripes video - Nothing on the internet is fair-use unless it's noted so. As soon as you create something it is copyrighted, and the laws of infringement apply to all who use it.