Final Project

What I  learned:

During this assignment, I learned how to use the key color effect which will delete a color on a picture. I also learned more about animations and enhanced my prior skills like scaling.

Reflection:

After completing this assignment, I feel much more confident in my premiere skills. Even though I took a semester long course on premiere I didn't think there was much else I could learn but I was wrong. I learned more about how to animate and edit pictures on premiere during this course and was able to enhance my prior skills. 

Finding Your Style Rough Draft

What I Learned:

This project was interesting to me. When you watch a video on Youtube or any other platform, you don't realize the amount of time and effort it takes to create simple edits, like adding titles and graphics. This project has definitely led me to appreciate good videos more than I already did. I struggled at first with adding text and making my images move, but after a few times of doing it I was able to do it quickly without problems. I am still looking for ways to improve this video, if you have any suggestions please let me know! Here is my rough draft, still image video on finding your style!

Finding Your Style Video

My Thought Process:

It was difficult to think of an idea for this video. I took a video class last semester, so importing it and making the video was the easy part. For next time, I'll try to get a better picture of Dr. Brown as she teaches and get more pictures of my friends in their clothes rather than having pictures I took in stores. When I initially came up with the idea of just having pictures from displays in stores, it seemed a lot more cool in my head than the actual result.

Finding Your Style - The Final Cut

Hi everyone! Thanks for staying tuned as I finished my final podcast!

This episode is asking the question "how do people develop their personal style?" In other words, why do people dress the way they do?

To get my answers, I talk with Dr. Victoria Brown, Assistant Professor of visual Merchandising Design at High Point University. I also speak to Haley Bossart, a HPU student currently studying fashion in Florence, Italy.

Thank you for following along!

Why do you Dress?

Podcast Subject
Have you ever wondered why some people choose to wear the clothing they wear? Is it for style, comfort, are they supporting a cause or just their favorite band?

Through this podcast, I want to find out why people choose their outfits. Do they have an "image" they want others to see them as? Is it for comfort? Or do their mothers buy their clothes for them because they just don't care what they wear?

Interviews
Everyone dresses differently and this podcast will explore why and how people decide what to wear for an average day. To help find my answers, I will interview fashion majors at High Point University like Haley Bossart, who runs 'On Point,' High Point University's Fashion and Lifestyle Magazine.  I will also interview a few other people who don't care about fashion or trends. For an expert opinion I will interview an expert in fashion, Professor Brown who teaches fashion classes at HPU.

Music Selection
Some song I have chosen to feature in this podcast are:



I chose these songs because they are upbeat and make the listener excited to hear an interesting topic.

Sound Effects
I recorded myself flipping through clothes in my closet and uploaded it in Audition, I edited out some quiet spots then saved it and uploaded it to Soundcloud.



I'm not sure if a listener would be able to tell by the audio what the sound is, that's my only worry. If anyone has any other suggestions on sounds I can embed in my podcast, please let me know!

Check back in soon to see my progression!

First Podcast: Do our outfits impact our days?

The Interview
Whether people realize it or not, everyone has deciding factors that influence what we do or do not choose to wear on a day to day basis. This has always been something I have been interested in but have never asked. I decided to do my project on why people choose to dress the way that they do, everyone has different deciding factors, so why not ask?

Process
My roommate, Jaclyn Scott, has always been someone I have looked up to in terms of fashion. So, naturally, she was the first person I wanted to interview on this topic. First, I tested the audio I recorded with my phone. Then, she and I sat down on her bed while I asked her questions. I then went through her responses on my computer and edited the audio footage. I then recorded my introduction and reflections and edited it all together smoothly to make the 5 minutes of audio I had into 1 minute.

Next Time
I will be more precise with the questions I ask during the interview so the answers will be more precise as well. This way I won't have as much audio to go through when editing. I would also like to potentially add music or background noises to my audio piece.

Interview

Finished Product

Radio Lab Podcast: War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds radio show that aired in 1938 on CBS radio has always been intriguing to me and so, without hesitation, I decided to listen to Radio Lab's podcast explaining this event. The co-hosts of the podcast explained why the producers of the show decided to tell this story on public radio, how they did it, and the aftermath and effects it had all over the world throughout the 20th century.

Four types of audio heard in this podcast:

Ambient Sounds are the background noises that give the listener a sense of place or setting. The most common ambient sound heard throughout the episode is the audience clapping or laughing during the performance, these sounds inform the listener that it is a live show.

Interview Clips are recordings of a story's subject that are played to make the story and characters seem more real to the audience, these can be recorded on location or over the phone. This podcast episode has several interview clips including an interview of the producer of the show in 1938, John Houseman, where he explains why the company decided to broadcast this particular science fiction story. There is also an interview included from an eye witness to the rendition of War of Worlds radio show which was broadcasted in Ecuador in 1939 as well as several other interviews incorporated throughout the podcast episode.

Voice Overs are any scripted narrations that are recorded to push a storyline forward. There are several voice overs throughout this episode such as around the 22 minute mark where recordings are played of other people reenacting the conversations that 911 operators had with citizens the night of the broadcast regarding concerns such as alien sitings. A voice over is also played when one of the co-hosts, Jad Abumrad, corrects some of his previous statements made during the live show.

Natural Sounds are "sound effects" that are recorded on location, not in a studio. Natural sounds such as music montages are played throughout this episode such as around minute 20 when a song that has a space theme plays. The song lets the listener reflect on what they heard and builds suspense.

Ira Glass: "Moments of Reflection"

Ira Glass explains that there are two building blocks that are important for stories being aired on television or radio: anecdotes and moments of reflection. He explains that hosts use anecdotes to explain the sequence of actions in the order they occurred to the viewer or listener. He defines a moment of reflection as the moment at the end of the show when the viewer or listener understands why he or she is watching or listening. It is explaining the 'big picture' to the audience. This episode of Radio Lab uses both building blocks in the podcast episode 'War of Worlds.'

The co-hosts uses the first building block, anecdotes, by starting at the beginning of when the story 'War of Worlds' was introduced which was not in 1938 but rather in the late 1800's. They then explain that the book was taught in several schools to young children, they tell the story of when it was first aired on public radio in America, then in aired on radio in Ecuador, and then again in America in Buffalo. They tell the impacts that each event had as they go and even relate these events to other more current events.

The moment of reflection occurs at the end when the co-hosts inform their audience that 'War of Worlds' was later announced in the 1950's, by one of the hosts of the first airing in '38, that the company aired this episode as a kind of lesson to the public. In a way, the producers wanted to tell the public not to believe everything they see or hear in the media. This lesson still applies today due to all of the hyperboles that news reporters use in order the reach higher ratings or get more views.

Cites:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/war-worlds
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/war-worlds
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/10-tips-for-using-audio-more-effectively-in-multimedia-stories/