{"id":557,"date":"2013-03-28T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-12-30T05:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:52:33","slug":"my-digital-life-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/my-digital-life-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"My Digital Life: Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had to create a 90 second video clip about social media for a module I&#8217;m studying, here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 480 \/ 360;\" width=\"480\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/my_digital_life_social_media.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Thoughts on Social Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How I made the video.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Using an open source application <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Freeplane (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeplane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freeplane<\/a>, I did a brainstorm of ideas for the presentation. I concluded that I would need to deliver the presentation as audio-visual to include the many ideas, although the majority of initial points were eventually omitted due to time constraints on the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then completed a storyboard to help me put the seemingly disjointed ideas into a logical order. I planned each section and then viewed the media resources available to include one image per point raised. The media was useful but because I didn\u2019t have time to listen to all the music available, I decided to select a commercially available piece to help create the atmosphere I desired. (Corner Stone Cues &#8211; Requiem for a Tower).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to file size constraints, in order utilise the 60-90 seconds available to me; I decided the final presentation needed to be 640 x 480 resolution (with 1500 bps) and having PAL-compatible 25 frames per second. I found <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Google Picasa (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/picasa.google.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Picasa<\/a> too restrictive for this purpose and it didn\u2019t allow me to crop and resize photos to ensure the full video was used &#8211; so I had to make use of additional software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GIMP (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP<\/a> (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to crop and resize the downloaded images to fit and fill the final video resolution. As the narration needed to link to each slide, I found Picasa, again, too restrictive because it didn\u2019t allow me to specify transition times uniquely for each slide. I had made use of<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Movie_Maker\" target=\"_blank\"> Windows Live Movie Maker<\/a> software. This is free but proprietary software bundled with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stored the mp3 commercial music file onto my iPhone and with one earphone in, I recorded my presentation via my desktop webcam\u2019s microphone to ensure the narration was under 90 seconds. I used the Microsoft Sound Recorder to create a WMA file, which I converted via<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" iTunes (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> iTunes<\/a> to mp3 and then subsequently imported this into <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Audacity (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity<\/a>. I created multiple tracks after importing the commercial music mp3 and reduced the gain on the music by 15dB in order to hear the narration more clearly. I exported the combined resultant recording as an mp3 file and added this as a soundtrack in Windows Movie Maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally I exported the finish movie as a WMV file (under 10MB size) and uploaded this file to ShareSpace. The illustrations below show various uses of the different software:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to create a 90 second video clip about social media for a module I&#8217;m studying, here it is: How I made the video. Using an open source application Freeplane, I did a brainstorm of ideas for the presentation. I concluded that I would need to deliver the presentation as audio-visual to include the many ideas, although the majority of initial points were eventually omitted due to time constraints on the video. I then completed a storyboard to help me put the seemingly disjointed ideas into a logical order. I planned each section and then viewed the media resources available to include one image per point raised. 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