You’ll need a camera. And you’ll need another frame. Hold the frame in one hand (don’t let you hand cover the side facing you), and take a picture with it in the center of the image. Then step backwards and take another photo just like it. Repeat until you are tired of making art. Nest the images in Prezi inside the frame of the next picture. Now make a zoom path. Record it with video capture software. Add some video editing (you’ll have to use multiple stacks(only so much zoom in Prezi atm) and splice the ends of them together to make it seem contiguous), and you have a trippy.
I though I’d give this a short test before I tried to make a whole movie.
I got it a bit wrong, I didn’t realise that the camera should show the last taken photo. I decided to see what I could do.
Open fireworks and opened the most zoomed photo.
Added the next photo as a layer.
Cut out the screen
Resized the first layer to fit into the cutout
grouped the two layers
Brought in the next image and repeated the process
I then tried to take the photo into imovie, and use the ken burns effect to zoom in or out. This did not work as I could not zoom in enough.
So I opened up my old copy of Flash 5 and put the image on the time line, I made this frame a keyframe and added another keyframe at fame 240 on the timeline. I scaled te start and end to get a zoo,
This seemed to work ok, so I though to try exporting to a quicktime movie, another fail. I ended up exporting to an image sequence, 241 images. This I opened in QuickTime and saved to a 1.1 mb m4v:
So although I’ve not managed VideoAssignments546 yet (so have not tagged this post) I’ve had a bit of fun, dusted off Flash for the first time in years, and have perhaps a better idea of how to go about this assignment. I’ve also added the sublimevideo plugin this blog.
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is sit on my porch, in a rocking chair and watch a thunderstorm. This is a pretty accurate depiction of what that sounds like:
Audio Assignments 70âSound Effects Story (3 stars) presented the challenge to tell a story using only sound effects, no verbal communication. The instructions dictated that I use at least 5 sounds and be no longer than 90 seconds long.
Using Freesound.org, I located sounds I could use including a door opening and closing, windchimes, a rocking chair, thunder and rain tracks, and of course, a bottle opening! Importing them into Audicity, I layered and looped some of the track, assembling them to create an audio image of a peaceful evening spent rocking on the porch with a drink watching and listening to the thunderstorm.
I recorded this clip during the last moments of my 2 hour commute home from work, as I entered the driveway, shut off the car, gathered my things, and put my feet down in my Home Sweet Home. Used the SoundCloud app on my iPhone to record and upload this task in a matter of moments. Nothing special here, no editing…just simple account of my arrival home after a long day away.
For this image, we were visiting the river and marveling at the rushing muddy water when I spotted the Candian geese on the “island” in the middle of the rapids. This photo is taken at 100% size, no zoom or special alterations. Unless you are looking for them you could easily miss these river visitors, taking a rest.
I must admit the photo/visual assignments are my favorite and I’m sure you’ll see more of them from me during the next few weeks, savoring the break from the audio and video world to enjoy a little photography!
In preparation for our collaborative radio show to be broadcast, I created a bumper to be broadcast on ds106radio as a teaser to get an audience tuned in July 3 @ 9pm EST.Â
This bumper was not too complicated to do. I wanted use clipped words and phrases, paired with appropriate music to portray the dire situation at hand. I listed the words and phrases that come to mind when I think of âzombie apocalypseâ and feelings it might incur. After choosing my words and phrases to describe a zombie apocalypse and the underlying tone of my own segment, I selected Metallicaâs Welcome Home (Sanitarium) as the musical accompaniment. Cropping it to a section of music and lyrics I deemed most fitting, I merged it with my voice track in Audacity and there you have it.
Hope it entices you to tune in to our (Group 2) show on ds106radio, July 3 @Â 9pm EST!
**Special thanks to my group members (Mike Berta, Ben Harwood, Kevin Murphy, Ciara Norquist, and John Johnston) for their creative contributions in making this show awesome, especially Mike Berta, who so generously volunteered to host and had to suffer my tardiness related to our very real, local “Post-Derecho” apocalyptic power outages and struggles. Thanks everyone!
So this week I was not able to really listen to anything live on the DS106 radio because I have summer classes from 4pm-830pm Monday through Thursday, and then we had that wonderful power outage at the start of the weekend. So I just listened to the audio DJ with about 6 other people who were on at the same time, but then it turned live with Scottlo who become the music DJ. I do have to say the music on the site was pretty cool. It was an eclectic mix of music and different from the music I normally listen to. I can’t wait to listen to some of our camp radio segments on it next week.
@ds106radio Listening to different songs played by the audio DJ.
This is my week six “letter” home to my family. I recorded it sitting outside at “camp.” I went over everything we did this week. I included some background noises, like chatter to represent me working with other campers, wind to represent the cause of our power outages, and a “Dun, Dun Dun” sound to represent my groups scary Zombie Apocalypse radio segment.
These are the two pictures from my daily create this week.
This is the bumper that I created for my segment in my group’s Zombie Apocalypse radio show. My bumper is similar to the beginning of my segment. I wanted it that way but I added, “they are out there, they exist” so that people listening to the bumper might be intrigued as to what “they” are. In terms of how I created it, I used the same media sounds “Hells Bells” by AC/DC and “radio static” from freesound as my actual radio segment. I downloaded the two media sounds onto Audacity and recorded my audio onto Audacity. I was then able to play my audio along with “Hells Bells” and the” radio static” in the background at the same time. I first muted everything but “Hells Bells” and then I un-muted the radio static. I then muted “Hells Bells” and just had the static along with my audio playing. All that created a new sound segment on Audacity which is what I embedded above.
I used the Sound Cloud app on my phone to record this it works really well. Im just starting to get used to hearing my own voice on a recording but still a bit odd I have to admit.
A few posts/couple of weeks ago I installed the oEmbed HTML5 audio plugin here. This allows me to upload mp3s and other audio files, the plugin takes care of presenting the audio using the html5 audio tag with a flash fallback for browsers that do not support the type of audio: This plugin converts URLs to audio files (MP3, OGG, WAV) into HTML5 audio with Flash-based player backup
This seemed to do the trick. This morning I noticed that none of my audio was showing in FireFox. I right clicked on the space where I expected to see the player and saw the the Flash file was not loaded.
Looking at the source it seems that it is using a swf file belonging to google: http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf
and that is Error 400 Not found.
Using Cyberduck I had a look at the plugin’s code. Â Part of this check to see if the file is an MP3 and the browser FireFox. firefox does not support playing of MP3 via the audio tag so the plugin uses the google Flash file, which is of course missing. $embed = sprintf( '<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audioUrl=%1$s" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" width="400" height="27" quality="best"></embed>', esc_attr($matches[0]) );
On my ‘real’ blog I usually embed audio using dewplayer so I decided to edit the plugin to use that.
I uploaded the dewplayer.swf file to the top level of my site and changed the code, I need to change the name of the var from audioUrl to mp3 and the url of the google swf to /dewplayer.swf.
If you are viewing any of my audio posts in fireFox you should hopefully be less puzzled.
Camp is now over (see the final story. If you are craving an experience like this, head over to ds106 and see how to participate. For more on the Summer of Magic Macguffin, see.....
