Video Blog

This project was a friggin mess. I originally started on a totally different project and topic. 90% of the way through the project the partner that I teamed up with abandoned the project for some assinine reasons. I was very happy when we had a presentation from Natalia and she actually spoke about convictions that she had while making her film.

I remember at a point when we got to ask questions I asked her about the emotional rock she had to deal with while she was on patrol with some non-law enforcement people looking for illegal immigrants. The dilemma she had was something similar to what I had to deal with with my partner.
On the bright side I learned to get releases and contracts from all partners in my video projects. I also hope that the partner that I was with learned that as a media maker that they will come across questionable material in their careers and they will HAVE to stick to the project. If they can't then maybe the media world is not for them.

So a final middle finger to my ex partner that left me with my..........project.... hanging in the breeze.

The making of this final video project for me was a lot of fun. I learned how to use the cameras and I enjoyed the editing. I did not use final cut pro, instead I used Adobe Premiere. Much much easier to use.

That part was very enjoyable for me.

End of Semester Blog

Ok finally the semester is here. Thank GOD!!
this semester in Medp160 was a disaster for me.
From having a partner abandon a video project as we were 90% finished and having to start over from scratch to having material presented to us that was just down right difficult to learn.
In my opinion this should not have been a two part course. It was just unnecessary.
The first part of the course was much better more intimate and I learned more from that class.
We were stuck in a huge auditorium for this class and it was just too impersonal. A lot of students used this setting to sit in the back of the class and talk and laugh all class long. Very distracting and the teachers did not much to maintain order in the class.

Everything was so disorganized especially at the second half of the semester. The flash classes were difficult to understand and I still had to resort to online videos to help me.

Two thumbs down for this class

Blog 4. Speaking with animation

I have chosen the flash animations at sitepal
http://www.sitepal.com/
In my opinion this website takes flash animations to a whole new level. It uses photographs that you can submit to them then they will change it into a flash character that talks to you. You can send audio or text to them then the company will animate the photograph you sent and have it repeat the phrase you sent them.
I have known about this company since 2003 and I have been using their services on some on my websites with great success. The animations are eye catching and send out your message.
Over the years they have improved their technology dramatically and have added 3-D characters and environments with their avatars.
I give sitepal three thumbs up. (I'll grow an extra thumb)