Month: April 2020

For my fourth Introduction to Digital Literacy for Online Learning assessment, I made a stop motion video using a Lego Star Wars set. I created a photo set using two big Lego sheets and slowly assembled the Y-Wing while taking each photo frame by frame.

There were some issues with the lighting and I think it might have something to do with the white bricks being used and how that wasn’t causing the camera’s flash to go off like I wanted it to. Nevertheless I managed to work around it to the best of my abilities.

Once the photo shoot was done, I dropped all the images into Windows Movie Maker and then searched around Youtube for some sci-fi sounding copyright free music.

The editing process itself was surprisingly simple. The music cut itself off at the end of the video so really all I had to do was just play around with the fade options. I went with the fast fade out option at the end.

Overall, I am happy with how my video turned out. As I said, I would try to improve the lighting situation in the future and make it a bit more consistent.

Animation Podcast

For my third Introduction to Digital Literacy for Online Learning assessment, I made a podcast discussing a topic and uploaded it to SoundCloud. I chose to talk about animation as that’s my future career goal.

I wrote a basic script containing the intro, outro and a few notes on what to talk about. I feel I could’ve scripted it a bit more so there wouldn’t be so many pauses and stuttering during the recording. I recorded the audio on Audacity and then found copyright free music on Youtube.

I edited the music so it can be used at both the start and end of the podcast. I also turned my audio up so I’m not so quiet compared to the music. Because of that, my audio came off sounding muffled because I was talking right into the microphone. Next time I do this, I will have the microphone further away from me when I record.

I found the thumbnail on Pixabay so I downloaded it and pasted it as my podcast’s thumbnail after I made my SoundCloud account.

Podcast Thumbnail

Overall, I’m happy with how my podcast turned out. As I said, in the future I’d script the whole thing out more and place the microphone a bit further away from me when I record.