PE5 Wordia

Increasing your vocabulary and learning to pronounce new vocabulary words has become easier. For both my diction and broadcasting classes there has been an emphasis on having the ability to pronounce and use words properly. As a part of diction, increasing vocabulary is very important. I chose to take these two additional classes in order to improve my podcasting and voiceover messages used in my multimedia projects.  Here I am combining Wordia with Dictionary.com to really learn new words. Here is an a example of a word defined in Wordia:

 

Here is my dictionary assignment format:

1.     Write the Word

2.     Give the syllables of the word

3.     Give the pronunciation

4.     Part of speech, i.e. vt-verb transitive

5.     Other forms of the word.

6.     Etymology-word origin

7.     Definition 1

8.     Definition 2

9.     A synonym

10. Use the word in a sentence of your own. Can use any form of the word.

This was added as an image because Blogger did not support the symbols.

BP7_Go!Animate_Cute but Psycho!

 
Try Go!Animate! It’s fun!

This little film was made using Go!Animate!, ScreenFlow, iMovie, and GarageBand.

BP6_Link to My Comments Pamela's Animoto Discussion

Image from kingdomofpossibilities.blogspot.com video.

Follow this link to my comments on Pamela King's blog about Animoto!

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Image from Melissa Klaus : AZIMUTH 359˚59'59" blog

Follow this link to my comments on  Melissa Klaus’ blog.

PE_3 iMovie ’09 Training

Here is an example of some of the new things I tried using iMovie.  It was nice finding new tools available by going through the iMovie tutorial from beginning to end. As they say, “necessity is the mother of invention” so I know I always learn the most by doing and the doing makes it sticks. Now, I will have a reference point to know what is possible and how I might find ways to create new effects using iMovie. It was a bit frustrating having to rewind videos to see where the instructor’s cursor was and follow along with the steps and I am glad I made it through.

I highly recommend creating a PDF with from the following URL for the Keyboard Shortcuts for iMovie:

http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/shortcuts/


MacMost site: http://macmost.com/

And the Certificate:

PE_2 iMovie ’09 Training

While the discussions of the somewhat clerical functions of  marking favorites, using keywords, and organizing events is useful - it is not what I am most interested in. Generally, for my purposes each project is unique and that categorizing has no real use since I am not chronically family movies or ongoing events at this time. I am sure I will find it useful in the future.

This is the instruction that I use the most and has made the most difference when working with iMovie. 

iMovie > Preferences and select Show Advanced Tools

  

This gives you all of the options to create picture in a picture, speed up or slow down video, and many other tools that are necessary when trying to create you own personal look.

iMovie Picture in Picture Results from Previous Work

I paid special attention to the advice to stay away from too many transition. I know when I see a lot of "special effects" in projects I find them distracting. iMovie offers a lot of special effects but it is more professional looking not to  use them.

Partial View of iMovie's many transition options.

I liked the discussion of using the Histograms and setting the White Point. I know this will come in very handy when I use photographs or video I have created myself.

PE_1 iMovie ’09 Training

I am working my way through the iMovie tutorial. Lynda.com videos can be very good or not. I am having a hard time with this video because having gone through the Screen Flow tutorials,

Lynda.com iMovie Tutorial "Hard to See Cursor"

I know he could have made it possible for me to see where his cursor is pointing without continuously having to rewind.

Lynda.com Tutorial Showing How to Make Cursor Visible

I put this off because I have used the tutorials for iMovie sporadically when I have needed to learn something for past projects. I found that the MacMost.com site has much more friendly and fast videos to learn what you need when you need it.  Also, I am feeling it is a shame we did not receive our iLife ’11 upgrade option yet so I could have spent my time learning the new program instead.

On a positive note, I am looking forward to learning about using green screen. The information on organizing images is useful.