Project Viewing

It was great to see some past students' projects in class and to get an idea of what my movie should look like as a finished product. The first lesson I learned while I was watching the movies is that it would be a good idea to have a balance of music and talking. This was probably my biggest question going into this project; would I have to talk in the movie or can I make it without it? The one movie Patrick showed us that didn't have any talking wasn't very well put together and it just had the same music on a loop throughout the whole thing. As much as I hate how I sound when I record myself, I know I need both music and speaking to make my movie better. Second, I learned that a lot of pictures and even diagrams are okay to use in this movie. The movie with about the Nike running shoes included many pictures of more than just shoes but of races, others wearing Nike shoes, diagrams of the leg and foot muscles, and he included his own photos of his own pair of shoes. This answered another one of my questions which was could we use other pictures besides our own. One of the movies that literally blew me away was the one that had animation in it. That made the movie over the top and definitely the best one that I saw. The last lesson I learned was to make sure that the information on the slides can be clearly read and up for a sufficient amount of time so the audience can actually read it. It was really distracting not being able to read the material on the slides and to not have an idea of what they were saying at all. The purpose of this movie to teach the audience of what the design process and characteristics of the artifact chosen. If the audience can't see the information, then there is no purpose to the movie. I will definitely be making several visits to the Media Depot to make my movie to its full potential!