Final Project

For our final project, we incorporated several forms of media and technology that we learned this semester. Our project focused on New Media in cinema. We incorporated the information we learned on audio recording, photo shop, and on video editing to compile this project.
We took several clips and pictures we found online and used them to create our final project. We scripted and recorded our own audio to play over the pictures and videos in order to better elaborate on the information we were demonstrating in the video clips and pictures.
We used photo shop to demonstrate the basic components of New Media and pixels and how that even though images appear to be real things, they are only images processed through binary. We had to even learn new technology in order to grab videos from the internet and download and edit them to incorporate them into our video.
The content that we finally decide to used included green screen filming clips and the digitally altered final product, pictures demonstrating that pixels and binary have become the most basic building blocks, videos demonstrating automation in computers and fractals in digital space.
The process first began with us formulating as many ideas as we could that related to the main points we liked and found interesting in New Media and cinema. From there we began to gather information and examples of these ideas and compile pieces that would help demonstrate the points we were trying to convey. After we had compiled all of our ideas and examples we set basic scripts as to what would be said to describe them. From there we began to edit and change our ideas, adding to some and cutting down or getting rid of others. We then compiled final scripts for each section then added enough video and pictures to fulfill the time that had been set by the audio. We had to adjust the video because it was clearly more flexible, where as the audio we had practically no flexibility. Once we had the correct lengths of video and pictures that we needed, we needed to compare them to the audio to make sure that each video clip and picture matches up correctly to the corresponding audio. Not only did we have to have a clip that made since, but we had to have the clip that corresponded the best.
It took a significant amount of time to sift through all of the videos and pictures then to edit them down and change them. It continued to eat up time making sure every piece of video matches up correctly to the corresponding audio. However the technology that applied to the project came quickly to us since we had learned to use most of the technology throughout the course of the semester. The only major problem is we originally intended to have a split screen part but i-movie does not allow for this feature to be possible without additional plug-ins.
Through the use of several forms of media and technology that we have learned about over the course of the semester, we were able to put together a video project with our own dubbed audio to demonstrate and explain New Media in the world today, especially as it is seen in films and cinema.