Fandom Movie!

The FATP and storyboard for the movie project can be found here.

All other links related to the slideshow (the previous project) can be found below:
Original slideshow
Flowchart proposal
Slideshow script

Below is my Fandom Slideshow transformed into a movie on Youtube!

This movie project was really neat in the sense that I got to pull together a lot of skills learned from working with Audacity (the slidecast/podcast project) as well as skills learned from working with screencasting and uploading video to Youtube within an earlier project (Gimp tutorial). I did storyboard before the assignment, but couldn’t upload the picture. I figured that out and it is posted in a previous post (linked at the top of this post.) I ended up with a produced movie that followed the original plan pretty close. It was hard to conceptualize the idea of a movie (it was a lot of components to include in seven minutes) but I think the planning process helped as usual- especially because once I started the project, there were so many steps to complete it.

To make my video I took my same PowerPoint used for my SlideShare and screen captured all the slides- about halfway through, I didn’t have to go through the process of screen capturing, I could just save the whole PowerPoint as a .jpeg and all the slides would individually be saved as pictures. I was working with Windows Movie Maker- a program that I thought was awesome! It was simple to use, just click and drag images, audio and video into a “story timeline” and it was easy to see exactly where each of these images, videos and audio would overlap. After saving my PowerPoint as a .jpeg, I imported all the images into Windows Movie Maker and selected transitions from one picture to the next. This process was fairly easy as well because you can see what each transition will look like if you click the demo box once and watch the display window on the right-hand side of the screen.

After importing and arranging all the images how I wanted them, I imported my audio clip. (I decided to import the mp3 version of the audio to work with so it was one track of all my audio previously recorded for the slidecast project.) I synced all my slides with my audio track that was imported and now I had to add video.

This is where the project got a little tricky. I wanted to add a screencast of different websites that show “extreme fandom” to further explain one of my research questions and study. I had worked with screentoaster.com before in recording the screencast and uploading directly to Youtube. This time I needed to download the screencast to add to my Windows Movie Maker file to complete the project before uploading to Youtube. With my personal computer lacking an upzipping software (I’m still figuring out the new freeware I found) I couldn’t open the file downloaded from Screentoaster, it was too big. After multiple fails on Screentoaster, I decided to find another freeware that would allow me to download easier so I could get the file from the web to my personal computer file to import into Windows Movie Maker. I found another freeware for screencasting called screencast-o-matic that was very simple and allowed me to download the file into the folder I needed for Windows Movie Maker.

Now, the problem was, I had one continuous file of audio that did not match the screencast + slides turned pictures (since I wanted to put the video clip right in the middle of the presentation). I had to go back to Audacity and work again with my audio to leave a silent gap in the middle of the track for the screencast to fit in, so there wasn’t overlapping audio tracks going on at the same time.

After that Audacity editing, I could import the new audacity file, add transitions in between the pictures and video and make sure the whole file flowed nicely. I then uploaded the presentation to Youtube and it is now hosted there for the world to see! It was a challenging project, but I loved pulling in the skills from previous projects such as editing audio clips in Audacity, uploading to Youtube, screencasting and the basics of different files and what they can do (such as .jpeg, .mp3 and .aiv for video that was recognized by Windows Movie Maker.)