Final Project

To create this final project I obtained all of my images from flickr creative commons, this way, I made sure all of the images were high resolution.

For the music part of this project I used 2 songs and one natural sound effect. The first, being 'I'm Shipping Up To Boston' by the Dropkick Murphy's and 'Dirty Water' by the Standells. I edited these two songs together smoothly, by cutting out and editing together different parts of the song. For the song 'I'm Shipping Up To Boston', I used the very beginning opening musical part of the song, along with the very end, adding them together ending and starting on the same note, so it sounds like it was really meant to be together. I used this same technique with the 'Dirty Water' song as the combination of the song that you hear in the video is actually 3 different parts of the same song added together.

The natural sound effect of city traffic that I added was a wav file, I obtained from wavsource.com. I saved this file to my desktop and then converted it to an MP3 file using itunes. Then I imported the mp3 file into Audactiy and added the sound to the beginning of the music that I had edited together. After the entire soundtrack was complete, I exported the file to the desktop and then imported it in garage band. All of the music editing I did was in Audacity.

Then I wrote my script based on my favorite things about Boston, and I recorded my voice using garage-band. In garage-band is where I added my voice recordings to the soundtrack I created in Audactiy. The reason I used garage-band was so that if I messed up on the recording, I didnt have to re-do the entire soundtrack, but only had to re-do that specific part, and then could edit the mess ups out as if they never happened.

After my voice was successfully laid over the music and things were placed at the times I wanted. I exported the final product as an MP3 file.

Then, using powerpoint as a storyboard, I imported the images I collected from flickr on blank, black slides. I then arranged the slides in order so that the images I choose went exactly with the words I was speaking and the music I created for the soundtrack.

When the slides were complete, I took a screen shot of each individual slide, and then changed the screenshot image to a jpeg file using photoshop. After all of the slide images or screenshots that I took were in jpeg form, I consolidated them into one folder labeled jpegs.

Then I opened soundslides and imported my jpeg folder along with the mp3 that I had previously created. After the sound and images were imported into soundslides, I adjusted the order of the slides and then adjusted the timing of when the images changed during the slide show or video presentation, that way the image you were looking at, demonstrated what I was saying in the script, and what the artists were singing in their songs.

Overall, I thought this project was really fun! It was something different, and it was cool, because it was a total collaboration of everything we had learned throughout the semester.