EDLD 5363 Weeks 3, 4 and 5 thoughts and reflections.

I have to admit that is has been wonderful having two weeks to get our group collaboration instructional video in full swing.  Thinking about it, just three weeks ago we were hosting the NFL draft of group formation lining up our partners for our EDLD 5363 multimedia project.  I ended up quickly joining a few other fellow Lamar students that I had taken previous classes with and while we had not worked together before, communicated and assisted each other regularly on our facebook class pages.  We started discussing ideas, created a script, then entered into the process of the production of the video.  Everything from multiple drafts of the script, a shot list, gathering of the media and creation/finding of the creative commons information for our projects was also completed.  We decided on splicing audio and video footage with the computer animation program, xtranormal.com in order to create this entire video.  In the end we discovered that if we were patient with each other, and communicated regularly, as well as were open with ideas, the whole process would come together nicely.  The only real technical difficulties that we ran into had to do with audio.  Two of our characters that spoke to each other in the video and during other video footage were in two completely different locations, using two completely different audio systems and comptuers therefore creating two audio files that were not balanced out.  I did my best to try and balance out the audio running as much as I could using Audacity and in the end, I think we came as close as we could to simulating the volume of two people talking to each other in the same room.  Now, it is off to the week 5 homework where I will be filling out documentation of all of our work and our final drafts of the production process.  Wish me luck!