Fun with Photostory

This week in EDTF we were required to create a Photostory. I enjoyed this project a lot more than I originally thought I would. We were required to create a presentation consisting of narration, pictures, a background song and text. Through this project I learned how to successfully narrate a slideshow so that background music isn’t distracting. I also learned how to add different transitions between each picture. This is something that I got creative with because I never have before. At first I was nervous because I’ve never created something like this but now that it’s over, I’m glad it happened! I really liked being able to be creative and use my own pictures and music. I used the song “I Feel Home” by Of a Revolution because I thought it went nicely with the overall presentation. I showed pictures of my friends, family and hometown. This is something that will be very helpful in many ways. In the future I can use it for fun. For example I think it would be a good idea to use this program to create presents for people such as my mom on mothers day. But on a more serious side, I could use it for future employers for presentations. Next we have to create a team video and I’m also a little nervous to start this adventure. I haven’t created many videos so this will be a big learning experience for me. 

Individual Podcast Journal

This week in EDTF we were required to create a podcast individually. This was very challenging for me. I have never tried to create a podcast or use some of the tools we used such as Lame and Audacity. For this task, we were required to create a 90 second podcast on any topic. We had to use the tool audacity to create this.

I learned a lot throughout the process of making this project. I learned about how to us the general tools in Audacity. That was the first step, but once I got used to it I learned how to add background music. With a little help from tutorial videos, which I found online, I was able to fade the background music in and out.

I’m so excited about all the things I have learned in the past week. This is something I have been wanting to learn but have not had the right resources. This is a skill I will definitely use in the future. My sister is a video journalist for the Washington Post in Washington, DC. I have watched her use programs such as Audacity and she is so good at it, but I never attempted to try until now. Now I can show her and future employers what I can do!