Looking at the group's synsopsis you could see that we planned to have 4 different dares done, and that all four group members would be featured in the video. Because of the time we had and the absence of a certain member we were not able to video all four dares, and instead we filmed only two dares. The only disadvantage that I find from this is that we didn't stick with the original plan. The advantage about this decision however was that we can now easily get our video to be around the 100mb range so we can upload it to student net because the video is shorter than planned.
Another problem we faced was that Therese was sick a lot, so she missed out on a lot of IST lessons that we used to work on the video. Because she was away we had to change the plans and we had to take off her dare, and Camillus' dare. The advantage to this decision was that it's now easier to change the video and editing it to be 100mb.
An issue during the filming of the video includes the lack of time we had together as a group and the video cameras that we were using either not being available, or out of battery. Because of these issues we had to delay some filming of different scenes of our video (including the introducing scene). However this problem was easily solved because we were able to film all the parts of our video.
Another problem faced was that we weren't sure how we were going to end up editing the video. Our original plan for editing was for Camillus to be able to do it at home. The problem that came up was that Camillus wasn't able to use movie maker at home due to technical difficulties with her home computer and everyone else in the group didn't have movie maker or wasn't sure how to edit the video. This problem was fixed with the extension that was given to finish the assessment and Camillus is still editing the video, but using movie maker in class during our 3 extra IST lessons.
No other big problems came up and I think that the assessment went well. If anything, we could have finished the in class tasks earlier, instead of doing it the way we are working on it right now.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
29/06/2011
Today is the day of the Japanese excursion and Camillus isn't here. Camillus is in charge of editing the video to put on to student net. We cannot view the current progress of the video because it's on her USB. Instead, we shall use this lesson we have today to update our blogs, fix up our blogs, and post more on our blogs! I still have to work on my evaluation, problems faced, and some activities that we were supposed to do as a class. I'm using today's lesson to do those.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
UPDATE: 28/06/11
We have been given a small extension for our video project. Our group has planned to take advantage of this time to polish the video and to create more posts related to the video. Examples of other posts include images of who's included in the video (the 'cast' of EFECTZ), a post explaining other problems that were faced during the making of the video and other problems encountered in preparation of the video (including the creation of story boards etc.) another post comparing the synopsis which was our original plan to what actually happened and a final evalutation on how I believe we went as a group and what could have been done better. I will also complete other class activities and edit previous posts.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
New Terms Relating to Audio Files
Stereo- Sound that is directed through two or more speakers so that it seems to surround the listener and to come from more than one source; stereophonic sound.
Channel- A "channel" in audio is just one separate stream of audio information. Mono audio sources have one channel.
Track- Audio tracks contain digitally sampled sounds.
Frequency- Abbreviated as AF, audio frequency represent the range of signals that are audible to the human ear. The range of audio frequencies is usually considered to be in the region between 20 and 20,000 hertz.
Hertz- Hertz is what frequency is measured in.
Decibel- the amplitude of a signal compared with the maximum which a device can handle before clipping occurs.
Wav, Mp3, Aiff- These are different types of audio file formats. The one used the most out of the three is MP3 which is used on most portable media players (example iPods)
Broadband and Bandwidth
1. What is Broadband?
Broadband refers to the telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth. The term is usually connected with internet connections.
2. What units are used to measure Bandwidth?
Bandwidth is measured in bits per second. (bits/s)
Broadband refers to the telecommunications signal of greater bandwidth. The term is usually connected with internet connections.
2. What units are used to measure Bandwidth?
Bandwidth is measured in bits per second. (bits/s)
3. How much faster is broadband than dial up?
According to Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia Broadband is roughly double the dial-up rate and that is achieved through multilinking technology.
4. What are the speeds that broadband operates at compared to dial up?
Dail-up modems are limited to a bitrate of aroung 56 kbit/s (56 kilobits per second) or less whereas Broadband internet's bitrate ranges from 64 kbit/s to 4.0 mbit/s and has data transfer rates at 256 kbit/s.
5. What are some of the advantages of using a broadband connection to download something like a video compared to dial up?
A great advantage is that the video will load faster. This is because a video loads through some data coming to your computer at a time. Broadband has greater bandwidth and therefore more data will be downloaded at once than a dial up connection.
A great advantage is that the video will load faster. This is because a video loads through some data coming to your computer at a time. Broadband has greater bandwidth and therefore more data will be downloaded at once than a dial up connection.
6. Create an image in paint that illustrates how a high bandwidth connection can move more data compared to a dial up connection at a given time.
Synopsis for IST Video Assignment
Basically, our video will be about Random Dares. It will be like a small television program where our group Effects are sent letters from people to perform their random dares. These dares are not dangerous however, they're funny and made to let the audience laugh.
For this 'episode' we plan to give our selves our own dares in a system that works like this.
I --dare--> Camillus
Camillus --dares--> Emily
Emily --dares--> Therese
Therese --dares--> Me
The episode will open with a special theme song and then we'll Begin the show.
To make it appear that we received this episode's dares from viewers we plan to start off by reading letters that have our dares. We'll read it to the camera and then we'll have cut scenes to the different dares. The dares will be recorded in this order; Emily will perform her dare, then me, followed by Camillus and Therese.
Emily's Dare - Is to walk into the Visual Arts Classroom wearing PJ's and act as if she is part of the class (With teacher's permission of course) and somewhat distract the class. This will be a year 9 V.A class.
My Dare - Is to walk into the middle of Dobson Green during lunchtime and music will randomly start playing. When the music starts I have to dance the macarena for around 1 minute wearing a mask.
Camillus' Dare - is to dress up like a chicken and play in the playground of Parramatta Park for a few minutes. She'll play on the swings and slide down the slide acting as one of the young children.
Therese's Dare - Is to make toilet paper accessories and put it in her hair walking around in class with those accessories equipped.
At then end of each dare we're going to give feedback to the viewers and talk a little bit about the dare as if the person who was dared was getting interviewed.
At the very end of the episode we'll thank the viewers and take more requests for dares and have credits. At the end of the credits we'll include some bloopers that occurred when recording the video.
For this 'episode' we plan to give our selves our own dares in a system that works like this.
I --dare--> Camillus
Camillus --dares--> Emily
Emily --dares--> Therese
Therese --dares--> Me
The episode will open with a special theme song and then we'll Begin the show.
To make it appear that we received this episode's dares from viewers we plan to start off by reading letters that have our dares. We'll read it to the camera and then we'll have cut scenes to the different dares. The dares will be recorded in this order; Emily will perform her dare, then me, followed by Camillus and Therese.
Emily's Dare - Is to walk into the Visual Arts Classroom wearing PJ's and act as if she is part of the class (With teacher's permission of course) and somewhat distract the class. This will be a year 9 V.A class.
My Dare - Is to walk into the middle of Dobson Green during lunchtime and music will randomly start playing. When the music starts I have to dance the macarena for around 1 minute wearing a mask.
Camillus' Dare - is to dress up like a chicken and play in the playground of Parramatta Park for a few minutes. She'll play on the swings and slide down the slide acting as one of the young children.
Therese's Dare - Is to make toilet paper accessories and put it in her hair walking around in class with those accessories equipped.
At then end of each dare we're going to give feedback to the viewers and talk a little bit about the dare as if the person who was dared was getting interviewed.
At the very end of the episode we'll thank the viewers and take more requests for dares and have credits. At the end of the credits we'll include some bloopers that occurred when recording the video.
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