DV Project 3

WEB VIDEO: News of community organization

Digital Video Project 3
Assignment EDT-6460
Instructor:MR

Title: State of Michigan Complex Community Organization

Date: Aug. 3rd 2009
Volume 1, Issue 1

The purpose of this news program is to show case a web video capability in conveying information to the public of organizations and or communities tour of a location.

The video consists of several video clips of a downtown city and its organization / community. The City tour does not consists of the whole city just a small portion and its mainly a section of the downtown of Lansing city. The web video gives an account of the different state buildings, what they are in terms of the different departments. The audience is anyone who is interested in seeing the state buildings, their architecture and surrounding community.

Animation_Pro1: EDT 6460

The concept of this project is an experimental animation project using a digital camera on a tripod and shooting images as it slowly moves to capture animation. Narration is also embedded.

Well, this is my first! It's not much so, I am sure I have plenty of room to improve.

EDT 6460 Class Assignment- DV Project #2

Hi, I tried posting on other avenues but to no avail.
So, in an doubt, here I am...on good...O' Google.
Hope this works!

MotherLand_Trip

I traveled for a funeral not to long ago to Africa. It was a very long trip.
It took 19 hrs (one way). I don't think I will be traveling that far again for awhile.
Despite, it was very different! Amazing. We flew over Kenya and it was beautiful!
I have created a video of images I captured, just few.
Hope you enjoy it.

Until next time!

Adobe Flash CS3- Week #7_ Reading Reflection

Queen Umeana
EDT 5500 ~950
Reading _ Reflection
Adobe Flash CS3- Week #7

Macromedia Flash is a very interactive software. I have basic experience with Flash MX and for the most part, creating animation, text and images are simple. However, the detail of creating any animation is what takes much concentration. In one of our assignment projects, I think project #2, we were to use flash to create a simple presentation. Macromedia Flash, people seem to either love it or hate it. As its popularity continues to grow across the internet, so are certain misconceptions of this software. While reading the article, several points were made as to the ways some people feel about flash. Some people feel that flash animations are too slow, take to long to download, that anyone can build a Flash animation and that flash is nothing more than eye catching software. I would think there is a grain of truth as to what people are saying. Flash is a cool tool, it provides relatively low impact, high payback, in the means of creating compelling, entertaining and effective customer interactions. Animations and images created with flash are rich in graphics, such as banners, games, navigation systems, and an entire website. Millions of money is being made by developers of flash. It gives designers a platform to create cartoons, videos, and games especially, those that gear towards young people. Such as website that dance and sing, with ease. The article expressed how flash has gotten a new interface, one that makes it consistent with the rest of the CS3 suite including Photoshop and illustrator. Some of the vector based tools are a lot easier to use than Photoshop equivalents. Having the ability to open up a PNG file with firework is some of the upgraded features in the interface. Being able to see a quick – edit option on the right click conceptual makes navigation easier. It opens a streamlined Photoshop for quick rotate, crop and red eye tools feature without loading up the full application. By having this entire feature in one, means designers would be able too, quickly, and easily jump between programs and keep on working. The panels are all collapsible. CS3 includes workspace preference so their can be one for home, office and perhaps laptops.

A feature mentioned in the article, is the video importer. It allows for the ability to deinterlace video. As I look forward to using this program for my project, based on this new empowered upgrade of flash CS3, I do not believe it would be too difficult in creating any animation. However, the time it would take to create these layers is what I do not look forward too, due to its time consumption.

As flash CS3 focused on making the entire CS work together well, I think most people would be more willing to learn its product. Being able to download a free trail for those beginners just makes the burning desire to want to learn a new product more exciting especially, when tons or no money is involved. For those high end -spenders, that are developers that designs for a living, is when it’s necessary to have high end programs. Incorporating all of the adobe products into one, make the live of any developer simpler.
Wouldn’t you agree?



Reference:
Stewart, Ryan (2007, April l9). The Top 5 new features in Flash CS3.from http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=336

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Community Resources: LHC – Computer Learning Center

Vedio Podcast - EDT 5500 Class:

One thing to take away from this vcast, if nothing else, is to know that there are helps in the community and its just a matter of taking the time to seek them out because, there are highly motivated individuals that wants to contribute to the community, especially in the underdeveloped environments, by giving their services in hope, it will impact the life’s of those who lives there.

If you would like to know more about CLC, please visit : LHC

Reading _ Reflection_ Week-#6

Queen Umeana
EDT 5500 ~950
Reading _ Reflection
Vcast - Week #6

The video podcast (vcast) by Dick Hardt was okay. It’s an attention grabber for awhile. But, afterwards, I lost interest, not in the video but in the audio. Other vcast I have seen is much calmer in conveying the topic. I guess it depends on what the author is trying to get to his audience. There is a vcast I came across that not crabbed my attention, but I liked what the project makers do. It’s about a couple of people, 16 in all, that do science related projects, called over the weekend project. It was more real in its presentation. It was very visual and you could actually here comments from all involved in the project. The project was about having a balloon go into space. If you would like to know more about this vcast, click this link. In comparison to Hardt vcast, fast passed presentation, the style seems slightly stale. He did hit some good points when it came to having an idea of what identity 2.0 was all about. He walked through the current accepted forms of identity, along the way, made some jokes that kept his audience in tuned, which lead to the problems folks are facing today with identity crisis; along with the different amounts of info or identity on various wikipedia sites. He points out how one has to prove their identity so many times during their life currently (birth, passport, driver’s license). He addressed how identity right now, are kept behind a walled garden such as Google’s but articulated that what is needed is identity 2.0

He expressed the benefit of identity 2.0 such as portable credentials, rich portable profiles, identity services and delegation just to name a few. This type of vcast is great for those that want to be engaged in a fast paste presentations, for those that aren’t quit interested in the content per say. But for those, that want a vcast, full of content, presentation style, and how fast the vcast is going, perhaps might want to consider other vcast out there..

As for distraction, I did not see any distraction in Dick’s presentation. I do however, look to having a little distraction when creating my vcast. I’m assuming from despair, sitting down and playing with the video editing would be my distraction.

Dick Hardt presentation overall, was informative and a good way of using this is by showing the different methods of podcasting. “It captured the complexities of participating in an online world and how identity is at the center of the Web experience.” (Dan Farber)




Reference:

Hardt, Dick (2005). Identity 2.0 . Oscon 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0, from
http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

Farber, Dan. Identity 2.0. Oscon 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0, from
http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

Philliptorrone, (2007, March, 3). DIY SPACE - Make: Video Podcast. Retrieved June 20th 2007, from
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/diy_space_make_video_podc.html