Metatext and Project 2

Well, I ended up scrapping both of my original idea's for project 2. I decided, instead, to create a short movie with pictures and movie clips of my own (some old, some new), that documented a journey of one fictional evening to find something comedic.

In my minds eye this turned out really well. I had all of my own pictures and some videos that I thought were humorous interspersed. along with some text ushering the viewer from one location to another. It was coming together really well, but then I started to hit the dreaded technological snags.

These mainly had to do with sound. I had some areas of my clips where I wanted the sound from the video to be heard, where others I didn't want the sound from the video. This was a cause of endless frustration to me. I'm sure it's a simple fix in Windows Movie Maker, but I was unable to do it. The only options I saw either wiped out sound from the movie clips altogether, or not at all.

I was also concerned about length. Through putting it together it was reaching 4-5 minutes in length, and I was worried about file size, and whether it was actually going to be worth sitting through (somethings that may be amusing to me, may not be to others). So I cut it down, to a little less than three minutes. However, because of this it may be too short. I don't know, time will tell.

However, sound issues are there, in the last video clip my camera picked up people talking next to me which I would really prefer not to be there, as it isn't relevant, nor appropriate. Therefore, I am going to upload the current version of my project, but I also hope to get some technical help with Movie Maker, and I may upload an "extended edition" this afternoon after I get done with my class that will have sound issues fixed and won't worry about length.