{"id":3021,"date":"2014-02-12T03:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offtheshelfandonline.blog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2014-02-12T03:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:27:33","slug":"adventures-in-multimedia-bringing-life-to-everyday-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Multimedia: Sights and Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My favorite photo – I loved the natural sound of the water from the shower!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I always have a tendency to either overestimate or underestimate the amount of time something will take me – in this case, it was the latter.<\/p>\n

I didn’t realize that I would end up spending four hours of my night in the multimedia lab to insert few seconds of nat sound, which I thought wouldn’t take me more than an hour.<\/p>\n

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One of the difficulties I encountered was making sure my volume levels were high enough. I had to really take advantage of the gain audio filter in Final Cut for all my sounds because raising the db levels using the pen\/quill wasn’t increasing the levels enough. I have to admit that my frustration started to grow as I sat in my chair, alone in the empty, cold lab, working on the tedious task. But I had to remind myself that patience is always key when learning new things, and I actually really enjoyed editing the sounds.<\/p>\n

I figured that my audio settings on my recorder were too low, but I wasn’t sure how to fix that. Thankfully, Gino came into the lab later on, and he took the time out to explain to me the difference in a setting of 4 to a setting of 10 for the recording level on the recorder, along with other helpful advice (thanks so much, Gino!).<\/p>\n

Another difficulty I had was making sure the nat sounds flowed smoothly into the next sound, which also required patience and time.<\/p>\n

On to more positive things, I thought it was really cool how by just adding sound, the stills came to life and the photo essay seemed to speed up. Without sound, the photos seemed to drag.<\/p>\n

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My roommate turns off her alarm and responds to missed text messages when waking up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In retrospect, I had a fun time collecting the natural sound, taking photos and bonding with my roommate. I also definitely learned quite a lot about my recorder and Final Cut.<\/p>\n

With all this in mind, along with the four hours of practice, I’m determined to do better in my next project.<\/p>\n

For now, click this<\/a> to check out how assignment three turned out for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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