EDLS+5363+Week+4+and+5+Pre-Production+and+Discussions

=__**Week 4/5 Downloads:**__ =
 * 1) (Petra) Let's just put all our stuff here, so we all can work on it.

(Meredith) here is a link to some pirates of the caribbean music or Indiana Jones..I can seperate the video from the music(I should be able to if it is not locked by the creater) [] [] (Petra) Love this one, looked at it to! (Darlene) Yes! This one. []

Bad boys from cops????hahaha []


 * ( Petra) Here are some pictures of pirates, teenagers in handcuffs, just handcuffs, and other stuff to look at. They all came from flickr.com **. **Just some fillers, or for the beginning or end, or not at all.Maybe we can use one of the handcuff pics for the end scene. Darlene was not sure how to shot a scene like that. I don't have handcuffs handy either, lol. **

Just a few ideas. Let me know and I can use any of these...we just need to give credit.

(Christy) I have been working on my video, I will post them in the morning and I also wanted to email everyone a copy. Could you please send me your email address to iwsicnh@hotmail.com. I have been trying to work on an opening credits scene. Its looking cheesy, but I think its getting better. I would have been finished today, but I had training and my car went to crap on me....been a day. How long should my video be? I have been playing around with 2- 10 second videos, but then we made 1 - 25 second video that showed him putting in a blank cd, turning on laptop, searching internet and picking songs from 2 different sites, then burning the songs, then taking cd out and writing downloads across the front of cd...........have training in the morning, then will send it out. (Petra) The whole thing is supposed to be less then 60 seconds, yet have you heard much from Darlene? How long are her shots? I think if they are to long they get boring. I don't know, what do you guys think? Christy, I put everyone's email address on the PSA page.

(Darlene) I am taking shots at Best Buy or Walmart today (Thur). I don't have children so will try to "borrow" some from school tomorrow so I can get shots of kids exchanging pirated cd's. My computer has been out of service. They reimaged it and I have lost EVERYTHING! #@&**(#!X%$!!! My shots will be 10 to 15 seconds.in length.

(Meredith) I think all the pictures above are GREAT. We will use any of them to fill the voids in the video. Which ever ones I use, I will make sure I give credit. I will just have to see which ones I use. Can everyone send me the pictures from above, any video you have, and anything else you would like me to use, to my e-mail? I am concerned I may not be able to get all this stuff off. This is going to be the tricky part. I will try when I get back to get them off. I will work on this all morning Tues and all evening, into the night. I want to get it done soon in the week so we can all evaluate it. It should not be hard. Yes, the whole thing needs to be less than 60 seconds(should not be too hard). I love all the shots ya'll are getting. I was concerned about the handcuffs too, my husband said he would go buy us some..I told him we didn't need them that bad. hahaha I think we are doing great. I did read today on the home page, from Daphene, that we must be blogging about how well we are working together and how production is going. Glad I read that. I said nothing but good things. :) Please text me if anyone has anything that needs immediate attention 512-787-3465, otherwise, I will check the wiki and my e-mail on a computer at the hotel(they should have one) if not, I will be back late Monday night and will work Tues. Have a great weekend. Just wondering...who is doing the Audacity file? Isn't this to just be the narration? Let me know. I am not sure I can do all the editing and that too. I can see how this goes on Tues. It should not be too hard, but I don't want anything to go wrong with the Movie Maker and changing file formats and then be stressed to no end to get the Audacity done too. Thanks

(Christy) I found the following pictures. I like the skull and cross bones look for an ending.....last words could be "don't be a Pirate" or can we have the ending credits roll while the skull and cross bones is in the background? I will go and blog right now. I must admit to you ladies that I didn't quite understand how the wiki worked when we set it up in the original class. I like them incorporating previous activites. I really didn't think that I would ever use it! I have a really good 20 second video, but for some reason it is not uploading.....says its missing, but I can open it from laptop. I have used more computer functions that ever before with this class too....and my son has shown me many shortcuts....in fact I don't think he knows how to do stuff on the computer the long way. LOL

(Darlene) I took 3 great shots today, but now my camera won't work! I looked up the troubleshooting section of the manual and found out the heads are corrupted! I will take it to the shop Saturday. May wind up buying a new one and reshooting. I will also do the narration in the Audacity program and upload it to this page on Saturday. At least I have my laptop in working order again. Ahh electronic gremlins...be gone!

(Petra) Meredith, I can sent you all the pics by email, that will not be a problem at all. I love all the pics you found Christy. I love the way everything is coming together. I think it will be great when it is done. I wonder if we can copy and paste some of our communication from this wiki to the blog to show our communication. I remember reading on that too. I am going to check again. Merdith please let me know what else you need me to find. Darlene, I am sorry about all your computer trouble. It can be such a pain when technology don't work. My own computer is on it's last leg, and I am itching to buy a new laptop.

 (Christy) I found a GREAT site about downloading music....musicunited.org. I will start looking at Audacity right after this post. Petra, I would assume we can just copy and paste info from here to wiki. Somehow I think we should include the actual law about infringeing on copyright laws I found the following on musicunited.org: If you make copies of copyrighted music recordings without the copyright holder’s permission, you are stealing music and that’s against the law. It’s relatively easy for investigators to obtain the I.P. addresses of users who illegally distribute copyrighted music files especially if they’re distributing lots of them. Under Federal law, first-time offenders who commit copyright violations that involve digital recordings can face criminal penalties of as much as five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. I have also made this powerpoint page for the video I don't know if we can use it or if it will transfer properly, but maybe we could still use the information in contains. The page lists the law and consequences of copyright issues and I included the proper citation. [|21st CENTURY PIRATES.ppt]

(Darlene) I will do the narration on Audacity Sunday afternoon. I will HOPEFULLY have some shots tomorrow. Looked for new camcorder today. No luck. Will look again tomorrow in a.m.

(Christy) Darlene, I have started working with Audacity for the narration, so you just worry about the shots. I heard back from Daphne and she said just submit an updated proposal and to make sure the blog reflects are interactions. We should be a to copy and paste from here to our blog. My 20 second video will not upload. I have an old camcorder that is not even computer friendly....that's how old it is and I truly don't have the need for a new one, so I can't see buying one for this course. I did send Petra 2- 10 second videos if the shots turned out. One, was my son downloading music, you could see Itunes in the background and I believe he was on Limewire for the 2 shot.

(Darlene) Okay Christy. I'll pass the narration to you. I worked with Audacity for another project. It wasn't too hard to work with. I did not have any luck with videoing at Best Buy or Target. They do not allow wideotaping inside the store. No one willing to come outside to "lose" their job either. I did get shots of a police storefront and another of some teens passing cd's back and forth. Anyone else have a camera to help with shots? I will upload what I have today on a new page.

(Petra) We can definitely change the narration and add the actual fines and all that. I tried to limit the narration. When I timed it, it was almost 2 minutes. I think we should probably leave the stuff at the end out with the recording industry of America. We can change it any which way we need to. Christie, I was able to open your two videos, I will try to put them on here in a minute, so we all can look at them. They are a little dark, but I think we can adjust with the video editor. I like them a lot. **How do you guys load from the video camera to the computer?** I do have a camera, just not the fire wire.

(Petra) Christie, here are your two video clips. (Meredith) Who ever put the videos below here, I cannot open them. I need them e-mailed to me. They seem to be in Quick Time Pro, I don't have that and I don't want to buy it. If it is e-mailed to me, I can open them and convert them. THANKS!!

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(Petra) Here is your video Darlene. I downloaded it. It worked. [|MOV006.m4v]


 * (Petra) I have a pretty good Canon camera (for pictures) that has a little video camera in it, do you think the quality would be OK? If so, I would be able to take some shots also. Please let me know about the narration. Tell me how many seconds to shorten it !!!! ** **I can also do audacity if you guys do not mind my accent!**

(Christy) I am going to try and put the other videos Darlene sent out. Also, do y'all think that we need to do the narration with the video at the same time. Are you guys going to just turn in Week 3 assignment as week 4, neither are graded, but still have to be turned in.

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The above are Darlene's videos that she sent over email. (Christy) Here is the narration, its still too long, but I wanted everyone to hear my voice and see if its ok. If we have the video set up we can re-word everything to fit the video. I have tried it a view different ways, but until its put to the video its hard to tell.

[|edld5363narration.wav]

Messed up on a few words...... (Petra) It sounds really good, I like it...

(Petra) I went all over town (very small town) today to get some more videos on my picture camera. The first few came out ok, and I will try to put them on here, yet the better ones with movies and music from Wal-Mart and the movie store show the video really small in the middle. I will try to fix it. (Petra) I stayed up late messing with these shots and could only load them up on You Tube. I guess since I took them on my pic camera. I never did this before and the last six shots look a little bit fuzzy, so let me know.

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(Petra) Here are some more video clips I took at Best Buy. I put them all on on file in Movie Maker and uploaded them to You Tube. []

 (Christy) I have worked on the narration some more. I have it down to about 56 seconds, but I will be able to adjust even more once we have the video set up. Does anyone know of anything else that needs to be done. Don't forget about blog posts, and I am going to put this link on my paper where it asks for urls, for communication purposes. Petra, I think the part of the narration about not stealing from a store is where we could include the shots at best buy....they were clear, maybe show the best buy sign, then a shot of the rows of movies and cds. I liked the way that looked. I keep forgetting how short 60 seconds is.....I keep thinking of things we could do, but really its very short. Let me know what needs to be done.

(Petra) Yes, I think I got the camera figured out at Best Buy. It felt strange filming there. I tried not to be seen.

(Petra) That sounds great. Meredith is going to work on putting she shots in the Movie Maker today. We want to all be done by Friday, so we can enjoy the 4th of July. I read in our assignment that we need to **debrief as a team on our experience on this PSA as a team, so let's do this on here:**

(Meredith) I am working on the editing. Trying to get everything converted to work on Movie Maker is a pain in the ear. I am working on it now. IF the conversion works, I should have the editing done by the end of the day. When I am done, I will figure out the easiest way to get it to ya'll. Once it is done, the audacity file and be done and we should be finished. I will keep everyone posted on here throughout the day. Great video, everyone.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(192,0,0);">OK, here is what is going on. I have the video edited and music added. I was going to post a finished version on YouTube for ya'll to check out. All I need to do now is get the Audacity file(in a Movie Maker friendly file format). I tried the wav file that Christy posted on the wiki and it works great in Movie Maker...but, it is 30 secs longer than the video. IF you have the narration done, could you please post the finished version on the wiki and I will put it in Movie Maker. Once this is done, we are done. Thanks IF any of you e-mail me anything, please e-mail it to obannionm@yahoo.com IF I don't get the narration tonight, tomorrow morning, my husband said he would record it, I will post it on YouTube and ya'll can tell me what ya'll think. Anyone opposed to that? (Petra) sounds good to me, I am ready to get this done. I hope Christy will email it tonight to you. (Christy) email has been sent with the narration. I cut it way down, but putting it with final video will help shorten it again. I included a copy of the revised narration. We will need to revise the proposal with that. I also, wanted to let everyone know this has been an experience. I REALLY do not believe I have ever used my computer more....I mean I have had MOVIE MAKER all along and didn't even know it. And Audacity was neat. Its hard to really learn a program in this short time, but it was easy enough to use and I like the way it saves projects. It transitions well.

[|narration2.wav] (Petra) It sounds great Christy! (Darlene) I think it is VERY good! Great job Christy!

(Meredith) OK ladies, I do dare say...here is the link to the video. PLEASE tell me what you think and let me know what we need to change. I had to compress the narration and the music in Audacity, so I go to use Audacity anyway. haha

Anyway, I am not sure about the length. Anyone think we will get counted off? I think it turned out very well. Let me know and I will make changes. I I add transitions and effects, it throws off the narration and pictures and adds more time to it. 1 minute is hard to stay under. I have been at it for about 3 hours now. I am going to take a break. I will get back on later this afternoon. Email me obannionm@yahoo.com or just post here what you want me to change. Great job everyone.

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Have a GREAT day. (Petra) **Meredith you did GREAT!!!!!** It all came together well. I really like the two pics you found, the money and the newspaper add, they fit in there perfect. It feels good to be finished. (Darlene) I think you did a wonderful job Meredith! I think you did a fabulous job of putting this together. I agree that MovieMaker hs its limitations, but it IS FREE! If we could afford Adobe I'm sure we could have more editing options, but what you've done is fantastic.Thank you for doing such a great job!