Sunday, November 29, 2009
What has a breathtaking adam's apple and can't successfully publish his final project?
This guy. I don't know what the procedure is on swearing in blogs, but I would love to point out that Windows Movie Maker is really f-wording me. I have spent many extra hours dealing with WMM's problems as is, but now when I try to publish my video it crashes as soon as I click publish. I can play the project in the WMM session, but it crashes about five or six times during it, so it would be a lot of starting and stopping. I tried moving the session to a desktop, as a friend recommended, but all of the video files were gone when I did so. F-word.
Friday, November 27, 2009
I just did the coolest thing ever
I just manually did the coolest transition ever. I'm not even going to tell people where, but they're just going to see it and be like, "Oh yeah, he blogged about that."
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I am going to throw a drink in Windows Movie Maker's face
It was either that or a pie, but I feel like there is some playfulness behind the whole pie in the face thing. I want Windows Movie Maker to know that I am miffed and won't stand for its shenanigans any longer. So I was doing the whole add video, save, crash, restart, add picture, save, crash, restart thing to my heart's content and realized today when I tried to watch the four-ish minutes I have so far, it has been deleting old videos as I add new ones. So now the tail end of it is six blank videos with random text over it. This is supposed to be one of the bigger drinking nights of the year, but since I am stuck working, I figure I'll just throw drinks...
In Windows Movie Maker's face...
All the livelong day.
In Windows Movie Maker's face...
All the livelong day.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Update on the ol' project
Despite Windows Movie Maker being the bane of my existence, I think my project is coming along really well. I have a ton of videos and pictures, and putting them together in the right sequence has been very much like a puzzle, but with more universal pieces. I am still working on getting some interviews to give it some more perspective, but I like what I have been able to do thus far. Once I head home I am going to try to move the project to a desktop, so maybe that will prevent the session from freezing as much as it has. Much like everything in this class, the only real problems I have encountered with this project have been from a "this computer sucks" standpoint.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
My project is going to make teenage girls everywhere cry
...It sure won't, but I felt that was a catchy title. In all seriousness, I have gotten more excited about this project as time has gone and as I have begun collecting things for it. I am not going to just make it about a cappella and a group going into record, but more the effect that music has on people, especially at the college age. I am going to speak to some type of music professor and see if he can give an explanation, but there must be a fascinating one. I know that it is a bit cliche to say that music can be bigger than everything else, but looking through history, music has set tones for generations. The Beatles were the voice of a new generation, and one could go on for hours about what music meant during the Vietnam War. Music has been known as being an outlet, a remedy, or just something for enjoyment, but it obviously means a ton to everyone. I have an idea in my head in which I would record somebody on video and with my audio recorder at the same time. I would incorporate him talking about what music has meant to him, cut to a video of him recording, and have the audio of him speaking over it. Hopefully by the time I have to present the project there will at least be some sort of substantial mix on one of the songs recorded so I can work it in. There are tons of possibilities for this project, and I am excited to explore all of them and see what fits best.
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