Sunday, May 6, 2012


This video was more difficult to produce than the previous two.  The required insertion of video and the need to use a converter made the process more tedious.  Although I had used my own camera in the past to take short home movies, this was the first time that I attempted to post my videos to a blog. 

Coming up with a topic was also a problem for me.  When I think about the things that I would be able to teach our cohort, I couldn't think of anything interesting.  I'm not the most creative chef, spend my day creating excel spreadsheets and word documents to send to the Department of Finance (sounded boring), like to do Insanity and run (but nobody wants to see that a video of that).  Finally I realized that there were many devices that still needed to be set up in our apartment.  Since I still can't figure out how to connect the wireless router, Xbox 360 was the logical decision!  Plus, I miss my Dance Central II game and needed my Kinect to use it.

Recording the video required the assistance of my roommate, and we talked continuously through it without realizing we were being recorded.  It took me about a half hour to figure out how to shut off the sound in Window's Moviemaker which was recorded by the camera microphone.  Although I had worked with music in video two, I struggled to decide which music would go best with teaching others how to connect a Xbox.

Once my movie had been created, it was so large of a file that it took a very long time to load.  In the end, I had to adjust my settings to make it a more manageable size.  Although this particular video took a very long time to create, I think that the process would go more smoothly in the future.  Overall, it was an enjoyable experience!



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