Week 8 - Tutorial Task

Video Update

This week we finally began filming! Renae was kind enough to be our actor, and she, unsurprisingly, was brilliant. We managed to do all the scenes in one room, which was the very same room our tutorial was in - very convenient. Sound was very hard to get as the microphone was an internal one on my camera, so long shots couldn't pick up Renae's dialogue. Christina said she could fix that in editing by laying over new audio.


Before all this though we had such a hassle with trying to get the video footage I found on e-waste in Creative Commons to work on Christina's laptop. So the only option was to download realplayer AGAIN and try and download the video AGAIN. After over an hour of fiddling around (oh technology, the bane of my existence at times) we hurrah!ed in triumph when we finally got it working. Turned out redownloading it on Christina's laptop worked like a charm, albeit a very slow, horrifically boring charm. The format was incompatible with iMovie, so when we downloaded it again we converted the file to a MPEG4 format, which was compatible! We weren't the only one's struggling - Renae was having a tedious time trying to locate exactly how to cite the photos she had grabbed off Creative Commons. It was a mentally exhausting lesson, but everything afterwards was highly enjoyable.


We will begin to embed the video once editing is completed, so I will discuss how in the next blog. I am also struggling on how to cite this video on e-waste, there is nothing in Creative Commons that is easily accessible to the producer. Worst case scenario I cite the URL, the username of the person who posted it, and their youtube channel's URL.


Question: do you own this production?
While this audio visual piece was created by us, it is not completely ours. We have at the beginning footage and audio from a Creative Commons licensed work. It allowed us to remix (i.e. we could cut out snippets that were relevant to us) and reuse as is. But everything else from then on is video and titling all created by us. 

Final Cut:
It's rough and hilarious but it's done! Only issue is the technology "attacking" Jen isn't clear cut so I guess we're going for something different - government cover up conspiracy?

Created by Christina Earnshaw, Renae Bressi and Lisa Townley.

Reference List
"E-waste movie - short version - who's dying for your iPad - the truth of ewaste" provided by Joetube97217 
URL link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnqvfNstr_4
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/joetube97217