Ideas for our IST assignment

The people in my group are; Camillus Savea, Emily Jones, Teresa Jankovic and me
We agreed that the video either be a parody or a remake of some sort and that we would be in the video.
Our first idea was to make a Newscast of Planking, the new 'fad' where someone lies face-down on the ground with their arms by their side in random places. However we were not allowed to film this broadcast because it was thought of as inappropriate if we were with it OR against it.
Our next idea was to make a video of random dares. This would happen in school and one of our example random dares would be walking into a classroom and a Santa suit, shout HOHOHO and just sit and learn with the class for a while.
Seeing as our first was no good, we decided on doing our RANDOM DARES idea.
To go out with this idea we'd first have to write 4 random dares ourselves and share it with the group so we could discuss the props that are necessary.

Making a Ringtone

The original version of this song is called Lucifer by SHINee a Korean Pop group.
I edited the song so I could make a Chipmunk Version by going to the tools and changing the speed.

How To Organise Your Project

1 - Create a folder for your project
2 - Place resources in folder > video files
                                           > music/soundtracks
                                           > still images
3 - Make sure you have a folder in your S Drive AND your USB
4 - When the file is on your USB make sure that you have another file somewhere else!
5 - Open Movie Maker and import  resources
   - Note that you cannot import resources from your S DRIVE
6 - When saving you can save it as a project or a movie file.
   - PROJECT: remembers last location of resources while you are working on the video. It is a "WORK IN PRGRESS"
  - MOVIE: all resources are embedded and cannot be lost because it is saved as ONE file. It is "COMPLETED WORK".
7 - Synchronise your S DRIVE with USB at end of each lesson to not lose information.

Intro to Audacity 3/5/11

Today we were introduced to a music editing software called Audacity. Here we can open up original tracks and change them so that they can be faster, slower, louder, higher, lower, played backwards and you can also take off the vocals to make an instrumental version. (These are all made in the effects tab)

There are many tools on Audacity such as;

These tools in order from left to right are; the selection tool, the envelope tool, the draw tool, the zoom tool, the time shift tool and the multi-tool mode button.

SELECTION TOOL- allows you to select and highlight areas of the sound clip you want to edit

ENVELOPE TOOL- when the envelope tool is selected two blue lines will appear and you drag the blue lines in and out of the track to change the volume.

ZOOM TOOL- click on the track with the magnifying glass icon until you are zoomed in as close as you want to be. This allows you to view the sound waves so you can see the music.

DRAWING TOOL- To use the drawing tool you must zoom in until you can finally see the samples (small blue points should appear on the sound wave) and you can move the different points.

TIMESHIFT TOOL- This tool is used when you have more than one track open and you can move the different track where you want it to play.