Reflection in Image Visualization Video Presentation

~Reflection~

We watched our video presentation last Thursday for our last mission in Introduction to Digital Media. Doing the presentation was difficult for me and for my members to do as this mission was already challenging to do, we still faced by multiple trials on top of it. All of us really tried our best to complete this mission. We tried to help as much as we can even though we had all little experience for editing the video and even in photo-shop.

To be honest, it was difficult for me to do this mission as this is not what I’m good at. I was having trouble finding ideas and it took me a lot of time to create the images. Some of us work more harder than they need to just to complete our project. Only one of our members can properly edit a video. I don’t feel like I put all my efforts the adapt the skills that I learned during the last two missions because I feel like this type of project needs time to learn and need someone to teach us to create a video. I am one of the students who struggles with technology and its very difficult to learn something without guidance from someone who has more experience.

I am disappointed of myself as I couldn’t show my full potential in this project just because I lacked skills in editing. And because of this I feel like I bring my team down. I know to myself that I could have work hard more if there were more options for me to do. I also felt more discouraged because of my grade. After seeing it, every effort that we made were not worth it.

Despite all of it, I still learned something new. I learned how to use photo-shop and a little bit of creating a video. I also learned that we still have to keep learning in order for us to succeed. If I will be given a chance to redo any of the missions, I would choose this again to fix my mistakes and I would give all my best to help my members no matter how difficult it may be. I am still glad to work with my team even though most of us been through a lot and I am still proud that we were able to complete this mission.

Thank you for reading my blogs for this module.

Image Visualization 2nd blog

~Second Week~

Since our group is complete, we decided to meet up and talk about our plans for this video presentation. At first, we were having a hard time on how we should deliver the presentation. But after long moment of discussion, we all agreed to present the mission as a game show because we expected that most of the group will create similar idea such a more information type of video and some would also act for their video presentation. We wanted our project to be unique and different and more fun to watch that everyone can also enjoy.

Our game show is about guessing the images that we have created. It starts from an easy image to difficult end. I also suggested to make the game show as a Kahoot style where the sound background is catchier and could get people’s attention. As all of us decided to create our images of popular locations, people and movie scenes, everyone can all relate to it and it would be great if all the audience would participate, hopefully.

What we have also decided to do was to record our voice instead doing an actual video with our faces in it. We record our voice in a more enthusiastic tone to add more effect for the game show. We also have a script already, so everything was planned, and it just need to be done. Most of us in this project don’t have enough experience in video editing but we all managed to get a head start and start the video presentation by doing a slideshow first where all the completed images are put together.

I was struggling to find any good photoshop software that I could use to edit my images. However, my group was very helpful as they suggested an app called Gimp. This app was helpful to me and it’s very easy to use even though there are a lot of editing options. I was still able to create my images though I never used it before. One of my colleagues also helped me on how to use Gimp by talking through Skype.

Before I start editing, I collected the images first using secondary sources and we also must copy the images link of each (we could use it as long as we have state where the image come from). Then, I used the Gimp software to edit the images where I must individually crop each photo and put each image on top of each other to create and illusion and make the actor’s/actress’ face unrecognisable. We also need to change to opacity of each image so the previous images would still appear slightly. I collected 25 images approximately for each actor to create my finished image.

After the long process of creating this last mission, we completed it at last. We made sure that every task was ticked before submitting it. I hope everyone could see the effort of our group put in on this presentation and I wish everyone luck on their video presentation as well because this last mission is the most challenging task that we ever did, in my opinion.