Reflection 18th 2009

April 27th 2009 - Intellectual Property

This lesson, I carried on working on my 30 second video. My goal for this lesson was to complete editing the dialogue and create the banner on paint, showing the consequences of illegal camcording, the awards given to anyone that detects it and also what the government is doing to prevent it from happening. Firstly, I finalized what the text that was going to be included in the banner and double checked if there were any mistakes. After that, I went to the 7th floor and opened up a new paint page and tried out many different background colors that matched the theme of entire video. I chose to include white, black and red in the banner because based on the setting of the video, which is the cinema, there were colors that consists of black and red. I chose to make the background white in order to create contrast with the black and red text. After including the title and all of the text, I thought it would be more interesting if there was a picture somewhere in the banner. I went on google and searched an image of illegal camcording taking place in a cinema. I copied the image and pasted it onto the paint page I was working. I saved the image to a JPEG file, and I was quite frustrated because it got really pixelated and some of the words were not as clear as before. I went back to the macromedia room and imported the banner into my video. I lengthened it a little in order to give some time for the audience to read the text. I rewatched the entire video and thought that the banner was too informative, though I decided not to change it because it would have taken more time and the video was due this lesson. All I needed to do now was add in chinese subtitles and my video would be complete. I went on Babel Fish translation to translate some of the text, though much of the translated text did not make any sense. Luckily, Gao Lao Shi was there, I asked him how to translate the english text and he helped me type out the chinese subtitles. At first, I thought typing the subtitles were a bit tricky, but I got the hang of it later and it eventually got easier. After that, all I needed to do to finish my video was to create my credits, I included Ms.Wong, Mr.Chiang, Clare Pemberton and the music I used and also the picture that was included in my banner at the end. I re-watched the entire video and rendered all parts that needed rendering and finally exported the video into a quicktime file. I thought this lesson was very useful beause I finally managed to finish my video completely, even though the ending might be a bit boring, I found the outcome quick well done. Next lesson, we are going to start watching the finalized videos, I am quite excited because I wanted to hear the feedbacks and comments from my classmates and Ms. Wong to see what I could do to improve my video, and what are the pros and cons of it as well.