Slide show

I think it took me longer to find the embedded code on Picasa than it did to take the pictures for my slide show, but oh well. I decided to take pictures of intramural sports, particularly broomball. Broomball is one of the most popular intramurals, and draws a great number of students to participate. I feel like this organization is very important to the school because it is a great way for students to get involved and really take advatnge of what the school has to offer students...well, besides an education of course.

Not to mention..my team did win the Men's Broomball Championship and we were 2nd place in the Co-Rec Championship sophomore year...no big deal.

Second Audio Project

Tonight we finished our second assignment using audio. This time we encountered a few more obstacles with levels and background noise, but besides that I feel we had some good content in our interviews.

Some of the emotions of the people interviewed were captured pretty well, especially when the two students were talking about waiting in line for Akon tickets.

I feel like I am getting a better feel for audio production and where to fit the right content in. I still need to work on some recording issues in regards to capturing background noise which distorts the voice of whoever is being interviewed. I feel this piece shined that the most and helped me learn how to make a better recording next time.

Also, music was incorporated this time instead of ambient noise which allowed more of a freedom to play with fading in and out of the clip.

Here is the clip of the project:

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Working With Audio

The one thing I learned the most about working with audio is how difficult it really is to fill 2 minutes with quality material. Just having a conversation I think lasts three minutes may actually only include 30 seconds or so of usable dialog. Using a B-roll with ambient sound helped fill in some gaps, but for the most part- choosing the right audio to use involved a great deal of cut and paste and careful editing.

Luckily, our subject was very excited to help us out, and provided some great words for us to record. Just answering simple questions like “What’s your favorite part about your job?” brought about some great stories and excellent content for our project. Editing the audio was very interesting as well. Choosing what content goes where, removing dead space, and clipping unnecessary pauses proved to be a real challenge. The development of style and aesthetic is key in multimedia.

Overall, this was a great learning experience, and has made me eager to do more with audio, and also strengthen my desire to work with video.

Cheers,

Mike

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First Post

I’m finding myself more and more interested in applying multimedia to Journalism. Everything today is dictated by sound and video. While the pen may be stronger than the sword, it wouldn’t hurt to throw some pictures or a quick video in.

My first stab at multimedia was a photo essay profiling the Stone Church in Newmarket last semester. Here I’ll include some of the pictures I used to help bring the words in that essay to life.