Week 8 - Tute Task

Over weeks 8 and 9 we finalised our ideas and began to create and put together our audio visual presentation. Below are the lists of components (parts of the presentation), the software and online programs used to create and assemble it and the key obstacle we faced as a group to complete the task well and on time.

Components of the presentation:

·       News report video

·       eHarmony I love… video

·       Images (Man and Logos)

·       Text (Rules and Guidelines)

·       eHarmony – Mad TV spoof ad

Software or programs used:

·       Creative Commons, eHarmony, Zoosk, RSVP and YouTube for initial research on the topic

·       Screen-o-matic – to capture video footage from YouTube, Vimeo and eHarmony

·       Windows Movie Maker – to edit footage together

·       Prezi – to present and put together footage and text

Major Obstacles:

·       Scheduling – getting all three task members together to brainstorm and create our idea.

·       Working against a tight timeframe, deadline Week 9.

·       Screen-o-matic – trying to record the videos with little to no background noise posed as a difficulty as the software is very sensitive and takes a while to get right.

·       Attempting to decide what and what not to leave into the final product to get the tone and message right.

·       Shannen’s computer got rid of Windows Movie Maker, so the editing took much longer than expected and had to be done in class in week 9.

·       COPYRIGHT –this was a big issue for us to overcome as mentioned in previous blogs. We had decided to use Prezi to conquer our problems with copyright infringements but was unaware that this solution was only applicable is the video footage we were intending to use was in its original unedited condition. Our only solution available due to the closing deadline was to continue but not upload it to our Blogs or YouTube as originally planned, but instead email it to our tutor and keep it with the intention of only using it for private viewing as the pubic alternative would get use into trouble. If we had had more time on our hands we could have perhaps written to the ordinal owners of the video footage that we used and asked their permission to use them in our presentation.    

·       The music overlay we were hoping to put over the presentation was canned due to the fact that it would no longer be exported into one video due to the copywriting issues mentioned above.

***Our presentation has been emailed to Lauren by Shannen.***