Movie Maker - Sound & animation ----------------------------------- Sound and animation editing using windows movie maker was the extra knowledge today, the instructor ask to find animation & sound from the internet and compile together with your own creativity.
The title for the video clip is "My engagement day", the video clip created by using Ulead VideoStudio 9.0 and Windows Movie Maker, the video clip already submitted today and pending to be upload to this blog, i need high broadband speed to upload the 33.4MB video clip file :)
Today, the instructor was given introduction about how to use and manipulate the windows movie maker. It is quite interesting to do movie clip with movie maker. So many add-on video effect and text effect to make the movie clip more wonderful. The lab assignment was given during the end off the class, "make your own video clip". I think i want to explore more than movie maker to create my own video clip......
The Battle You’ve All Been Watting For! Myspace VS Facebook
By Matt Veres
For internet savvy college students, the internet offers a diverse selection of websites in which they can avoid one’s homework and other responsibilities. Two of the most popular procrastination destinations are MySpace and Facebook. While both sites enjoy millions of users, a debate still rages over which site is the best. I came across Facebook while I was a freshman at SouthamptonCollege. To join the site, one only needs an active college email address. One advantage of Facebook is that you can easily locate people on campus that share your interests. You can also find people that share your classes so you can arrange a late night Adderall-fueled cram session. You can add friends from other colleges and just recently, from high school. Each page has a straight forward presentation. Users can list their favorite movies, books, and TV shows. A Facebook page also has a section for quotations were users can quote masters like Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, or Homer Simpson. A big attraction to Facebook is the ability to post large amounts of pictures and place them in various albums. The shortcomings of Facebook stem from the blandness of an individual’s page. Every user’s page has the same layout and color scheme. Outside of pictures and added in text there is little room for personalization. No videos, no flash animations, no nothing. Another disadvantage is that if you form a group you can only invite friends from the school you attend. Also, Facebook is geared towards college students, high-schoolers, and college alumni, so you cannot befriend anyone outside a given age range. Facebook can also be used as ‘Exhibit A’ in your student court hearing. In some colleges, faculty and administrators can view student’s pages and check for inappropriate behavior or underage drinking. Who knew that the picture of you wearing a lamp shade and humping an inflatable sheep would come back to bite you in the ass? A second option for your internet perusal is MySpace. This site offers a chance for people to meet without the limitations of Facebook. People do not need a college email, and can be of any age. You can add anyone you like whether it is a new friend or a celebrity impersonator. Unlike Facebook, MySpace is available to personalize. You can change your fonts, colors, banners, add videos, and animations. The site also allows for users to have their own blog, where they can write anything from daily observations to dark poetry befitting of an emo song. Users can also post bulletins that can be viewed by everyone on their friends list. Like Facebook, MySpace also has its shortcomings. Some people take editing their profiles to gaudy extremes. They’ll place every shinny, flashy and otherwise obnoxious decoration on their page in an attempt to assert their individuality. The page could be so busy that your eyes may start bleeding (and make your computer crash!). There are also those who do not know that a lime green background does not mesh well with a yellow font. Picture posting is also very limited as you are only allowed twelve photos. The biggest pitfall of MySpace is that it is open to everyone. There is no age limit. This poses a problem because young girls on the site are notorious for acting a lot older than they are. Anyone who has visited the site knows what I mean. They are the girls that have pictures of themselves posing in skimpy outfits or in some cases just pictures of their cleavage. Nothing can get you in hot water faster than hitting on a fifteen year old because you saw her suggestively licking a lollipop online. After weighing the pros and cons of both sites, it is my opinion that MySpace is the better site. The ability to befriend people outside of college and add personal flair to your page puts MySpace just a notch above Facebook. But I suggest that you check them out for yourself to see which one is right for you.
Article Review
The tiltle of this article is ‘The Patriot, V. 02, N. 06’ and the author is Matt Veres from Stony Brook University Patriot. This article was issued on Apr-2006 which is published by Enduring Freedom Alliance. The Citation of this article is, The Patriot: Stony Brook, NY. From the article review, the author was comparing the most popular procrastination destinations, which is Myspace and Facebook. In this article the author also do some multimedia review on both website. The first multimedia review by the author is Facebook. In this article he mention that Facebook’s interface is very easy to navigate an with a convenient panel on the left side of the screen. The Personal information can only be viewed by other students at your school or your friends at other schools. Beside that, The Facebook allows an unlimited number of photos that can be “tagged”. This means you can have pictures of your friends show up on their profiles. The Layout is plainer than MySpace, but it keeps the pages under control and prevents them from being unreadable because of people who have no sense of color coordination and think it’s cool to put lime green text on a bright yellow background. The second multimedia review by the author on his article is MySpace. He mention that MySpace is a lot more customizable because you can actually use html to change your background, add pictures, and even put in videos. MySpace also provides a built-in blog, where you an express yourself or just put up random stuff. Another than that you can add full songs to your profile from your favorite artists and bands. Though this can get annoying when you’re browsing profiles at 2:00am and you forget you have your volume all way up. Using third party services like youtube.com, you also can insert videos into your profile, something you can’t do with facebook. Insert pictures of whatever you like directly into your profile using html. Why simply list Austin Powers as one of your favorite movies, when you can put a picture of him there. Besides that you can make your friends compete with each other and watch them squirm for an exclusive spot on your “Top 8”. You can even enter code into your profile that allows you to have more than eight people listed there and also change their names and pictures. The conclusion for this article is, I was agreed with the author opinion that Myspace is the better site. It is because referring to the article, myspace site is more flexibility and this site is no restriction for multimedia file and support most of the media type such as text, art, sound, animation, and video. Compare to facebook, the site is more statically and not to much media content that we can do to this site, therefore the site so many limitation for media content and seriously the site is really boring.
Multimedia is constanly in the news as more and more applications, especially those intended for the web, are develop.
Submit two-page review of a magazine, journal, web sites or newspaper articles related to multimedia. Choose one of the theme below:
Multimedia Review - You Tube VS Google Video Or Myspace VS Facebook
How Advance Multimedia techniques are affecting the way we
communicate or
socialize
buying things
learning or
any other related topics
Include the following info in your review - name and date of publication, name of articles, review of articles ( in your own words), conclusion (e.g do you agree with the author's point of view? why? and why not?)
Due date August 7, 2008, Tahoma 12 pts, 1 1/2 spacing
