Video

Lecture

This week’s lecture was taken by Daniel again and the main topic was video. Video is a dynamic media and we started by saying that it is media that is captured from the real world. We started talking about using video and how its and impressive feature to use and how some information can only be conveyed by using videos. We then went on to talk about some problems that arise when using video, such problems are that it’s a big production effort and that compromises are often needed, the production effort is problem because you have to take scripting and directing into consideration when producing video.

Tutorial

This week we were asked to create a splash page such as the one we have been asked to create for our coursework. We were again given a hand out outlining what was expected in the splash page, such as motion and shape tweens and including images in the flash file as well as audio. We then opened up flash and commenced making the flash file that would then act as the splash page. Once we had created the flash file we had to shock it to make it a .swf file. Once this had been done we had to open up Dreamweaver and insert it onto a page with a simple “skip intro” link linking away from this page.

Reflection

I enjoyed this week’s lecture and thought it would be helpful when editing the video that is required for the coursework. I enjoy the multimedia topic and I like getting into more complex parts of it. I thought this week’s tutorial was really interesting and helpful, I thought that giving us an outline for a splash page would be really useful for the coursework. I also enjoyed it because I like working with Flash and Dreamweaver and I have experience using both so I found it fairly easy to carry out, I am looking forward to designing a splash page for my website following this tutorial.

External Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_screen

Sound

Lecture

This week’s lecture was again taken by Daniel Cunliffe and covered the topic of sound. We started off by covering how sound works, after we had covered this we moved on to covering frequency and amplitude and stated the point that 2 waves at the same frequency but with different amplitudes still gives out the same note, but if you were to have a different frequency with the same amplitude would give out a different note. After we had covered this we were talking about digital audio and the conversion of analogue to digital. To end the lecture we touched on mono/stereo and the sampling information.

Tutorial

This week Rafal handed out a sheet just telling us to follow some tutorials in the program Adobe Premier Elements, we were going to be using windows movie maker but the program would not work on the machines we were using. We were given brief instructions of which of the given tutorials we were suppose to do, we were instructed not to carry out the 2^nd or the 6^th tutorials. The tutorials we were given to go through covered such things as adding effects and just learning the basics of the program, we also covered translation and most of the common techniques used in video editing.

External Reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_editing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency

Reflection

I thought that this week's lecture was quite interesting and helpful as I have not done much work on sound editing before and was quite relieved that we were going to be covering it. This topic has been a nice change from the previous topic talking about text which I found really boring. This week's tutorial was different and seemed disorganised but i enjoyed working with Adobe Premium Elements as I have not ever used this program before or really ever carried out any video editing. I'm glad that we are moving onto more complex topics to allow us to create a better website for our coursework.