Cohort 15 Red Carpet: ME, MY MOM, and PRINCESS DIANA: "Please enjoy this video vignette about how Princess Diana helped a teenage girl bond with her mother. Created by Cassandra"
In my technology class I we were assigned to design a video vignette about anything we wanted, but it had to have literacy in it. After thinking for many days on what to create, I came up with an idea to share a story about my teenage self, Princess Diana and my mom.
I was frustrated with the process in the beginning. For starters the program is a Windows based one, which means I need to use a pc and I have a mac. All my computers at home are Apple products, even all of our cell phones, but I jumped in ready to learn!
So I went to the UWB library and checked out a pc and a microphone, all set to go home and put together my video. I had the pictures all set on a usb drive, but guess what? They didn't work because I downloaded the clip art from my mac. So, I gathered new pictures from the rented pc and all went well until the music...
I was thinking I could use my iTunes account but that wouldn't work so I was stuck with the free music offered on the pc, which is all old stuff before there were copy write laws.
Also, when it came time to record my voice I quickly realized it can not be done from my house of a loud NY husband, two teen daughters, a barking dog and a purring cat, so off to the UWB library I went. This proved not to be great either, because the "private" room's all have loud fans in the ceiling and the microphone picked up all that noise.
In the end I finished my vignette. It isn't the perfection I like to have, but I learned how to do it and it was really fun! The frustrations were OK because I learned quickly that this is a great tool to have for students in this techy world as a new way to tell a story.
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