The Blog of Brandon

Visual Communication Within My Still Image Video For my this blog post I added a visual element to my still image video so that I could give more  emphasis to what I was saying at that point in the video. In order to do this, I used some of the editing tricks for moving texts that I learned in class. I also chopped up the texts in order to give the visual a shutter effect. Overall, I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. Enjoy.

What I Learned I had never created a project in Adobe Premiere prior this project.  The closest that I have come to making something like this is when I use the I-Movie app on my iPhone. There are some similarities between the two applications, but Premiere has so many more options and features. Premiere's large amount of user options is great because there are so many possibilities when creating a project. On the other hand, this also makes it a lot easier to make a mistake, and I am sure that I made plenty, but creating this project was great practice for using Premiere. By the end of the project I definitely felt that I was way more competent on the app than I was when I first started. Challenges One other thing that I learned throughout the process of creating this project, is that piecing together a video like this is harder than I expected it to be. I did not think that creating this project would take me very long, but with all of the scaling, trimming, and adjusting,...

In my Audio Story I use multiple different resources in an attempt to answer the question "why are humans progressively growing taller over time?" Creating this Audio Story has been an experimental, educational, and enjoyable experience for me. I hope that the work I put in, as well as everyone else who played a part in the creation of this Audio Story, can benefit you as a listener in some way.

Why Do Humans Keep Getting Taller Over Time? For my Audio story I will continue to dive deeper into the question: “Why do humans keep getting taller over time?” I previously posted a podcast which briefly discussed this topic. The podcast is featured below. If you have not heard it yet, give it a listen so that you can gain some more context about my audio story.   Experts: Because of the nature of the question which my audio story revolves around, it will be highly beneficial for me to get input from some experts in the fields of science and history. One of the experts who I plan to interview is professor James Pampush. Professor Pampush is a biology and anthropology teacher at High Point University. I was a student in his anthropology class last semester and I am confident that he will bring something of great value to my audio story. Intro Music: My topic is very thought provoking, and no one has been able to come up with a definitive answer for the question ...

People On The Street Introduction For this week's blog post I went to the Slane Student Center to ask people an interesting question: Why do humans keep getting taller and taller over time? This project was a lot of fun, and was also a new experience for me. Editing I incorporated some music into my audio, and edited the project by including fade-ins and fade-outs. I also had to cut a few areas when my interviewees started to ramble or say things that were not relevant to my project. I hope you all enjoy my project, which is linked below.

Introduction For this week's blog post I listened to the Radio Lab podcast for the first time! It was a great experience, and in this post I will share my insights about various aspects of the the episode that I listened to, which is mysteriously titled "More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual". Four Kinds of Audio As described in the Poynter article, there are four basic kinds of sound which are used in most “multimedia” stories. These four types of audio are: interview clips, voice-overs, natural sound, and ambient sound. The Radio Lab podcast that I listened to, which is titled “More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual” features all four of these audio forms.   I nterview Clips & Voice Overs In this week’s installment of the podcast they are interviewing a young woman, and as she is speaking there are occasional clips from interviews and news programs thrown into the mix. I use the verb “thrown” because in many instances these clips are literally inserted while t...