DIGC102 presentation

So today I did my part of the presentation but unfortunately had to bale early to make it for the train. I was nervous, shaking but I felt I covered it pretty thoroughly (I hope...). The video games industry is not that hard to map but I could not concisely put it through sometimes. Also, I wish I'd made my presentation more visually exciting. Anyway, battery on the laptop is about to run out, watching Wedding Crashers on 9 - hilarious (and it did, I'm posting this the next morning lol).

2 new videos

This was the group project - Life@UOW - for DIGC101.

This was my own movie that a friend and I made in IPT last year for the HSC. It has a weird title I can't pronounce.

I'm about to start our DIGC101 class. Bye.

Sweat Suit

Wow the presentations for DIGC102 were really good (is this blog meant to be exclusively for 101? Not anymore!). Apart from sitting there, bored for 3 hours, they were both had their own style that they brought to the table. But particularly, Chris's group was really well presented - whatever their program was that he used really made it look professional and if that was backed by actual professionals, you'd have me sold. They killed it.

The first group was good too, however it was a bit harder to follow. Renee did very well though and presented herself very clearly. I particularly liked at the end where she jumped in to answer a question and it seemed so professional lol (I can't remember what the actual question was though because you know... I wasn't actually concentrating).

Group project + website

Just a few updates on where I'm at.

Our group project is almost finished - I have been making it in Movie Maker and it's been a sort of long process having to slice clips, add effects, add subtitles and keeping them all in sync but it's practically done now, I just have to add the credits. The credits are going to be hard because as we have pulled all of our photos from Flickr I'll have to credit each photographer whose photo I took - luckily, Flickr uses a favourite function so I can easily track it down. From there, once the movie is done, I'll save it as a movie format and upload it on YouTube (which I then plan to embed here, Myspace and maybe FaceBook).

For my first assessment, I'll just be using Myspace and this Blogger (& maybe FaceBook) to show my HTML know how. I feel it is equally acceptable as, going off Chris's demonstration of the Kompozer software, there would be better understand of HTML in Myspace & Blogger. Why? Because Kompozer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) application and I feel I would get more of a challenge, HTML-wise, from fooling around with HTML code on Myspace & Blogger. However, after this assessment, I will be using Kompozer to create my own website anyway lol.

Anyway that is all, I glance over a few of the other blogs people have going and I'm thinking - how do you guys type that much?

Group work

So far, our group have just snaked Flickr photos.

Oh right, I should probably explain what we are doing.

Our group is: Renee, Chris B, Myself and ... I don't know about George (Ex-George, he dropped out of this subject I think?)

Well... it's going to be a slideshow of Flickr photos representing a story (or narrative? ... no story) of a studen't day at Wollongong. I've currently done a bit of the slideshow but it's not final as I have to finish up the fonts and hilarious subtitles. From there, we'll upload it to YouTube - how's that for new media mastery?