April’s Blog ;)

Hey again :]

This is the second post for what we needed to write about today. For those of you who don’t know what the ITL Video is, it’s the video we’re making for the ITL Project. We all got a certain topic; mine and Katie’s is anorexia/bulimia/other eating disorders. Click here to read more about it.

Software for the ITL Project video:

The software we used was Pinnacle and Audacity. Pinnacle is a program used for making videos. Audacity is a program we used to record our scripts for the video. On Pinnacle, what me and Katie did was added a lot of pictures of people with eating disorders, and then we recorded the script that was sent to us on Google Documents and put it over the pictures so that when they appeared, you’d hear us talking as well. Also, we converted a video from YouTube and put it into our video. We may have to take it out, though, when we get the video from Columbia put into there. We’re still waiting for it, though. Pinnacle allows you to add transitions between scenes, add music, make videos, add sound effects, text over stuff you add (whether it be photos or videos) and much more. Audacity allows you to record what you want to say, change the pitch, and much more.

Process?

The process for the video was not an easy one. First, we had to hunt down a bunch of pictures to add to our video. We’re still in the process of finding some more. We had to add music, put in the poems that the other people involved in this project wrote, add credits, and we still need to add the video from Columbia that, for some odd reason, doesn’t seem to be working…oh, and we also had to revise and edit te script that was sent to us. There may not seem like that much to do, but it’s a long, painful process…

Literacy: what about it?

To be honest, I find this question a bit difficult to answer. I’m gonna answer it based on what I understand from it. Well, I think it means how does literacy change when you’re doing a project like this? Do you still need it to get something out in the world? Obviously you must need some. You need literacy to know how to speak when recording the script, and you need it for when you type out the poems, and type over any pics/video you have. I guess you don’t really need it for when you add pictures, though, well for those you don’t type on or speak over. This is the best way I could answer this question, but if you want to add to it feel free to comment.

Editing and Production choices

We chose to edit our video the way we did based on what was good. For example, we wouldn’t use hard-to-read fonts and colours for the poems because no one could ever possibly read them. We wouldn’t use pictures that had nothing to do with anorexia or eating disorders because it doesn’t match our topic and when people chose to watch our video, they expect to see anorexia and not something that has nothing to do with it. We chose to keep different scenes in videos based on what made sense, what people want to see more of, and what really gets you thinking. This is how you chose what and what not to use in videos.

This is the end of this post, but if you want to comment on it please do, much appreciated.

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