Although I procrastinated on this project and was therefore more stressed and crunched for time, I actually really enjoyed the process. For this project, we had to write a 2 minute narrative about a passion of ours, record the narrative, cut the sound and also incorporate music and ambient sound bytes. We then had to compile the sound into SoundSlides along with pictures that supported our narrative.
Although I liked this project and felt it taught me a lot, I had some issues in the beginning. Originally, I was going to do my project on cooking, something I am absolutely passionate about, but soon realized that I wouldn't have enough time to take 25+ good pictures and receive sound bytes. I then decided to talk about my other passion, travel, since I had a large assortment of pictures from my trips readily available. I had a really difficult time with the narrative. I couldn't quite figure out how to talk about my passion without talking about myself and my travels. After much revision, I ended up just explaining the wonderful trips I went on and how wonderful they were. I might have talked about myself more than we were supposed to, but I couldn't figure out a better way to talk about travel than to explain the experience I have and the places that people could potentially go. Once I had the narrative down, I eventually found a way to record my sound through my camera on my computer. It sounded fine on my computer but once I transferred it to Audacity in the Mac Lab, there was a lot of white noise in the background. I ended up figuring out how to remove the background noise, which made a great deal of difference. I learned a lot about how to cut and compile sound and add different effects, I was actually very proud of myself when I finished.
Most of the pictures I compiled were digital but some had to be scanned. I didn't have a hard time getting pictures, I just had a hard time cutting down the pictures. I have so many, but it was difficult for me to fit them all along with the narrative, sometimes I would talk about 2 different sites very quickly and other times it would be slow and have to stay on one picture for a while. I tried to organize it so the pictures were cohesive with the sound and tried to make sure that there were no pictures that were up for too short a time or vice versa.
For the most part I am very happy with how the project came out and I am mostly happy with how much I learned when it came to editing and creating sound. That was really the best part of this whole project.
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I spent my 11th birthday on the island of Capri in Italy; spent my 16th birthday in England being sung to by 4 Turkish men; and spent by 18th birthday in the Czech Republic. Needless to say, I caught the travel bug at an early age.
I was 10 years old when my parents decided to take me to Italy. We filled our days visiting the Trevy Fountain, the Collesium, the Sistine Chapel, and seeing famous artwork such as Michelangelo's Pieta and Leonardo DaVinci's The Last Supper. Our nights were filled with busy restaurants and delicious food. Spending my birthday on the island of Capri, surrounded by the gorgeous blue waters, the sweet chirping birds, and the rushed, yet beautiful fluency of the Italian language sealed my love for travel.
After exploring Italy, I wanted to explore the rest of the world as well. When I was 16 years old, may family and I travelled to England and France. We explored the quaint English markets, rode in a double-decker bus, and picnicked under the Eiffel Tower. Two years later, I took the most incredible and educational trip of them all, travelling to the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and Poland. Each country had something memorable about it, whether it was the Dancing House in Prague, the thermal baths in Budapest, the Concentration Camps in Poland, or the Hundertwasser House in Vienna. Everywhere we went in Europe had its own personality and taught us so much about the world we live in. Each one has provided me with memories I will never forget.
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