The general goal of this PSA-style project is to serve as an entree to my department (of instructional technology) to be deployed on my departmental webpage. The piece is intended to pique interest of faculty and other users of our site so they might consider participation in out events and/or use of our services in general. My department's overall goal is to support faculty in thoughtfully selecting and utilizing technology in their teaching to support student engagement and learning. So, in effect, the video is a 'commercial' tease meant to incite curiosity and inform regarding our services and event offerings.
The completed video was rendered using Windows Movie Maker. The tool offers basic editing options including the import of the 'Do You Know' (see References & Attributions page for details and support wiki) video file, insert of title and credits, title text overlays (with 'effects' available, but few placement options), image effects and transitions. While the application help files indicate that multiple audio tracks can be inserted into a project 'easily' (to allow narration and music import to play simultaneously), that process required 'publishing' the movie file twice to create a 'blank' audio track for inserting the music. Utilizing the imported video brought additional challenges. The music file I used for background under my narration had to be clipped into 2 files to use 'around' the video music background. One file I was able to use 'as is' from my download. The shorter clip I made using Audacity. Transitions in the completed file are not as smooth as I would have liked, but work well enough. Now that I have the completed video, I can see multiple parts and arrangements I would change. I can think of much better ways to fade into and out of the video, for example. Such is learning.
After my experience with Dreamweaver, I am quite certain that an Adobe app for this project would have produced a more polished end product. However, the results were acceptable and represented much learning with regard to managing multiple media from multiple sources into one production.
Final Multimedia Project - 21st Century Teaching & Learning - Considering New Media
21st Century Teaching & Learning-Considering New Media from Cindy Jennings on Vimeo.
The general goal of this PSA-style project is to serve as an entree to my department (of instructional technology) to be deployed on my departmental webpage. The piece is intended to pique interest of faculty and other users of our site so they might consider participation in out events and/or use of our services in general. My department's overall goal is to support faculty in thoughtfully selecting and utilizing technology in their teaching to support student engagement and learning. So, in effect, the video is a 'commercial' tease meant to incite curiosity and inform regarding our services and event offerings.
The completed video was rendered using Windows Movie Maker. The tool offers basic editing options including the import of the 'Do You Know' (see References & Attributions page for details and support wiki) video file, insert of title and credits, title text overlays (with 'effects' available, but few placement options), image effects and transitions. While the application help files indicate that multiple audio tracks can be inserted into a project 'easily' (to allow narration and music import to play simultaneously), that process required 'publishing' the movie file twice to create a 'blank' audio track for inserting the music. Utilizing the imported video brought additional challenges. The music file I used for background under my narration had to be clipped into 2 files to use 'around' the video music background. One file I was able to use 'as is' from my download. The shorter clip I made using Audacity. Transitions in the completed file are not as smooth as I would have liked, but work well enough. Now that I have the completed video, I can see multiple parts and arrangements I would change. I can think of much better ways to fade into and out of the video, for example. Such is learning.
After my experience with Dreamweaver, I am quite certain that an Adobe app for this project would have produced a more polished end product. However, the results were acceptable and represented much learning with regard to managing multiple media from multiple sources into one production.