About Project Two

I'd like to do another Windows Movie Maker with a song and pictures of my dog and his friends. I am going to have more pictures with less time for each to show as the song plays. I want to try to mix at least a couple of songs, but right now not all the songs that I ripped from CD's to my computer are available to open in Audacity. I'm sure there's a way; I just have yet to learn it. The pictures could definitely be more in time with the music, maybe even relevant to the words. And titles could go along as commentary on the photos.

Dogs in the Sun

Post Toward Project 2

I'm thinking I will get some audio of my dog talking. Last night he was very rowdy and just kept ar-ar-aring at me. Hopefully I can get a good conversation out of him. It really only takes some dog treats. I also live on a busy street, so it might sound good to get the constant sound of cars going by in the background. I feel pretty confident about creating and uploading the audio. I want to set the audio to pictures of my dog though, and still feel a little blurry on how that works. My questions will probably involve that, though I need to try it just to know what problems I'll have. I know my computer has Windows editor. Beyond that I will want to know where is the movie maker? Then perhaps I can figure out how to make the audio and pictures together. Then will I have to save it to the djspooky center center thing before uploading it to my blog?

Here Comes the Sun with Street Sound

"Here Comes the Sun" is a song performed by The Beatles and written by one of the members of the group. I like it because it's about quiet hope. I pulled to synchronise the sound of a door opening to the outside in the beginning of the song because that's the beginning of hope, opening oneself back up to the world. There are mostly just white noise and distractions out there, but if you've got your buddy by your side (my dog in my case, whose quiet bark is heard once on this track as he greats a passer-by), you can come back into the quiet with more clarity having braved the good, bad and the ugly. This is heard in the second half or so of the song where the street noise is cut out.

MAP

Morgantown

McCloud's Vocabulary

icon ("any image used to represent a person, place, thing of idea"), amplification through simplification ("By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can amplify that meaning"), closure (filling in), "time frames" (look at examples).

Homestar Runner is all about amplification through simplification. Go to the Strong Bad Emails. Here readers easily become acquainted with the bad guy, the sad guy, and the mad guy, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Strong Mad, respectively. Strong Bad answered emails angrily and while being mean to everyone and anyone, even the fuzzy adorable tag-along sidekick, The Cheat. Strong Sad is always depressed and self-deprecating, while Strong Mad has the personality of a bulldozer. Homestar Runner himself is the representation of a good athlete, who needs nothing else, including intelligence or even arms, which he doesn't have, as his sport is running. Each character has about one characteristic allowing an immediate grasp on the situation and easy transition into laughter. When a general cartoon viewer might be asking, why would this character now be drop-kicking a small animal?" a Strong Bad email viewer would be answering, "That's what Strong Bad does."
Bill Marsh's Landscapes is made with a series of five "landscapes" with moving parts and sounds acting as icons of ideas. Words sneak, fly and vibrate by behind the images of the cyber-like settings. Concentrating on the words, the phrases can be read, as the noises and movements fill out the concepts. "I did not hide my face from insult and spitting" parades by visible in circle and square cut-outs. A constant grinding noise and stillness all around accentuate steadfast attitude of the text. "I have set my face like flint and I know that I shall not be put to shame" flows by in the next scene. Pictures of children are included flashed, but the sound, a steady chiming, is ominous as though someone is remembering innocence while preparing to follow through with this flint faced plan to avoid shame. The ideas in order play out like an inspirational movie, ending with scrolling of the text, "I will bring them back from the depths of the sea," as an erie flute noise attaches itself to the quiet triumph of Landscapes' final biblical resolve.

Project 1 Preface/Metatext (New in blue)

The effect has been fixed as now the words to the project are written over the images for it. I chose words from a song I heard in the movie, "My Fair Lady" that Audry Hefburn sings when she's a poor street flower seller who only wants "a room somewhere." That's the feeling in these images. The parts of the room aren't perfectly chosen for a cohesive look; they are the furnishings and comforts accumulated that make up a home. I saw that movie in high school and maybe carried that song with me subconsciously as I picked out furnishings and arranged them. Being in the design field coming from the interior design program, my personal style has been a main point in my life as I move from place to place and deal with the challenges of each apartment. I actually just moved from the photographed place because of the leaky roof, and therefore the song lyrics also highlight a meaning to me that, though this desire seems basic, it can be threatened. Most of all I just think the arrangements I make with an interior space are clever and/or aesthetically-pleasing. I take pictures of them and thought a series of one room with different settings would be as close as I could come to what I'd imagined having on my website.

I had a hard time getting anything to work for this project. I did want to use the pictures of my apartment at various stages of arrangement. My apartment has a leak in the roof, though, and causes frustration. But I like rearranging my apartment, even with the constraints of designing with a leak. The project is more a comment on the improvements that can be made over time. That's often what starts my design process, the total giving up on making something work that functionally won't. Then I can look at what will work and what can be done with that.

Project 1 Final (fixed)

Slide Show

Video, Url Adding

English 303 sylabus
You tube movie from "Nacho Libre." Who would have thought that movie was going to be that funny?

Idea for First Project

I would like to have a giant text "Karen" that when you click it either changes colors or audio comes out that pronounces it in different ways. After twenty clicks of randomly picked changes to the text, the letter 'K' runs and jumps into a round pool of water and starts spinning as it is a whirlpool. Now as one clicks the letter, it does different strokes or activities in the water.

Then this html drops into the water after six more clicks http://centerforabetterlife.com/.

I think I can include some video. I don't know of what yet, but I'm looking forward to bringing this together. I've uploaded a slide from a slide show I made. My question about this project is, "How do we upload a power point slide show?"

I'm really excited about finding out what I can add to a webpage. Using the "add video" button, I've been trying to upload my videos to this post, but for some reason it's not working. That brings me to my next question, "How do we upload a video?"

Also I am wondering if we need for the project to include animation other than video or if video counts as animation.

Not knowing if I could or not, I would like to have different interior space floorplans with different representations of furniture that users could click and drag into various arangements. They could go to a room similar size and shape to one they are trying to design and use furniture similar size and shape to peices they have or might get. It would be nice if they could then change the color of the different objects, floors, walls, doors, and window treatments.

To this project page, I'd like the changing "Karen" ideas to be the home page. Then maybe there could be different pages, one where people could design different outfits in the same kind of way, and another where they could pick different foods to make meals.