Sunday, May 15, 2011

Music Genome








1. Upload your movie to your blog. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format. You can also upload it to YouTube and embed it into your posting to save time.]

2. A) Identify your chosen musical genre & B) say why you chose it.
  I chose Disney Show tunes because I grew up watching all the disney movies and I was familiar with many of the songs.

3. Describe your process...how did you go about finding your songs and information?
   I basically picked songs from my favorite movies or the most popular ones.

4. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...]
  I used a different kinds of converting tool, imovie, and garage band.

5. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project?
   The video portion of my project went pretty well. 

6. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you?
   Transitions with music was difficult for me.

7. Did you decide to use still slides? Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?
   Most of my project is video but there are some pictures.

8. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?  
   imovie would be helpful for many other classes for projects.

9. What new techniques or technology tools did you use in this project that you've never used before?  Be specific.
  imovie tools and music in imovie and transitions.

10. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976?[...not just that you cited the information, etc., but how did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?
  I mixed all of the music as one in garageband and I put the information into the video and matched the music to the video.

11. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not? 
  I don't know, probably not. I'm not a big fan of technology and I get easily frustrated.