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Reality sinks in… today marked the first day of the downhill slope to the end of this program. Being introduced to the publication project took quite some time. After being handed multiple sheets covering the next five weeks in this program, it is easy to see that they are going to be a very busy five weeks. Getting into the publications project was fun to start. Throwing ideas around helps gain a handle on what is coming up. Knowing the direction to take for the publications project brings peace to mind. Practicing and honing journalistic skills provides methodology, much like a doctor. Journalism practices are based off of principles, standards, normality, and ideology.
Switching places from behind the scenes into the limelight of the camera. It was strange at first to be peering straight into a viewfinder, instead of someone else.
Getting into the natural flow of things, beginning to criticize the vocalized word was rocky to start. Pacing and speed are important to pay attention to. Compared to every day speech, the way which a news broadcaster speaks is much slower; so slow people from eight years old to eighty years old can catch what it being articulated. Articulation and enunciation are key, but it is worthy to remember not to go overboard. There is a difference in the way a “rAdiO rePorTer” speaks and a broadCAST reporter speaks. When radio reporters speak into the microphone, they make sure they articulate on the sharp T’s and S’s. Broadcasters focus on this, but not nearly as sharp, while putting emphasis on syllables more clearly.
The first day of broadcast came as a surprise to none. After bending and warping some of the ways journalism is portrayed, Andy was able to get on with the most valuable lesson learned: organizing information. When an assignment is given, the first and foremost thing a journalist should start doing with video camera in hand, is start thinking of possible sources and shots that would make the story interesting. Sitting around a campfire during story time allows the author to add tonnes of colour to a story through speech. Video takes the gift of speech and transforms it into and audio and visual mixture, appealing to more senses than the average story.
No greater sense of accomplishment in DVD authoring can compare with when the DVD spits out of the computer after formatting and burning.
Is it ever nice to come home to a cold stiff beer in the fridge. Welcome back to the house of web design, where venturing through the staircases and hall closets of Dream weaver find many interesting things.
One hour of class: 300 word minimum blog… can it be done?
The wonderful world of DVD authoring and web design has unfolded. The next week is looking at these two topics, hopefully for more than an hour per day, as was allotted this morning.
A review of the past week’s instruction, the final assignment integrated four days worth of education. This is apparently equivalent to four weeks if the course was stretched out to as long as a regular semester would be. In the assignment, the only difficulty found was making the fly out menu interact with the main web page. For some reasons, the buttons would not connect to the main web page. Also, there was some difficulty with connecting separate photos with tweens. Slideshows, movie clips, integrating sound, and all the rest of the bells and whistles went smoothly. The day before, there was trouble with menu parts, resulting in a complete redo. Maybe this problem was carried over into today.
Riveting as it is, final cut has its ups and downs. Loyalist should perhaps be looking into replacing the computers in the animation wing, where the class is currently located. New monitors have been brought in this year, but the three classrooms in which students spend many hours working on school assignments have very old towers beside each new monitor.
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