The experience I had with this podcast was pretty much the opposite of the last one. Creating and shooting the podcast was much quicker and easier than previously, however, getting technology to cooperate with me this time was not. After the debacle that was saving my podcast to an external drive, editing also fairly quickly. The effects in my podcast are still nothing fancy, but, I think they are a little more cohesive and transition more smoothly than the ones on my first podcast
The lesson I learned from this podcast was that a few minutes of planning saves one a few hours in set up and filmig time. I actually shot 23 minutes worth of tape in a half hour. I was pretty excited about that. My last effort took about 2 hours for 11 minutes of tape. The other thing that helped me more this time was writing a script. It was much easier to organize the material and find natural "scene" breaks. However, I have also learned to stick to a script. I read my script, but then also ad-libbed quite a bit. The ad-libbing was relevant to the topic, but I rambled on way too much. (I would like to take this moment to apologize to those in my podcast group in class. I'm sorry...it's really long.)
Overall, things went better. Next time, fingers crossed, both the production and editing will be easier.
3 comments:
The framing looks much better. Is this 4x3 or 16x9? Probably better to shoot 4x3. Are you using a lapel mic or the camera mic? The audio sounds a bit hollow. Watch the audio on the cuts. It sounds like the front is getting clipped on occasion. You might add in some music/audio over the section slides. The animation in the slides is great. You may have bumped the audio somewhere along the way as the audio is out of sync by around 1/3 of the way through the video, though it resyncs a bit later. There is some black before one of the slides that shouldn’t be there. I like the tie in with the course. You might consider tying in some screen shots of Web sites while you are talking about them. This might be a good time to take advantage of the Ken Burn’s effect. It looks like you are probably using natural light on the side. The advantage of doing so is, of course, that it provides you with a nice diffuse sidelight. The drawback is that over a long piece, the lighting may change. While I don’t think this causes a major problem here it is certainly something to be aware of. Nice job.
Wendy,
It was good to know media system dependency theory related to new media. I like your approach MSD to our media daily life. First, I like your setting; I don’t know you did intentionally or not, but on your back plant color and your clothes color matches so it looks good to watch.
At the beginning, you use Ken Burn’s effect. First time, I tried to use that effect but it didn’t work out to me. When I editing some photos, I always remove that effect and make all photos as still frame. I was wondering how I could use that effect. However, on your beginning, it looks good. On the theory part, there was slight difference between audio and video. Maybe on editing, some audio track did not fit on video. Also before the second slide, there was black pause for short time. The slide with animation effect, to show reciprocal relationship among media, social, and audience, makes me to catch up the concept easily.
You made distinguish between uses and gratification theory and MSD. It was really good to know the distinction between those two different but seems similar theory. I think your topic will be really good start. You told that there were few literatures so that means that people did not start do research on that topic yet.
Good JOB!!! I look forward your third podcast!
Wendy-
This podcast has been hiding from me- but I finally can view it, again from work! I really enjoyed the chalk board effect you used for your title and to show each new focus area.
The only thing I would suggest is to look slightly off screen- to make it more of a conversational video.
You did a good job of looking into the camera though and showing a firm understanding of the theories which seem so similar.
I am impressed with your use of the Ken Burns effect-- I couldn't figure out how to turn it off and it messed up mine, but I like it in yours!
Good job!
My only other suggestion might be more slides during the video- just to break it up a bit and
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