Multimedia workshop

17 January 2009 | Photography

This last week was a pre-term multimedia workshop. We produced a couple of pieces, one of which is below. This is one day’s work, although I did take some of the pictures the day before. For sound and slides we used free software: Audacity for sound editing, which was about as good as you can expect for something that you don’t pay for – I had a lot of error messages after a couple of hours of work – and then the Soundslides free demo, also ok, but very limited.

The music in this is ‘Tears From The Compound Eye’ from The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada. Other sounds are by me, trudging around the fountain in the snow and loitering around the wood-chipper looking shifty.

The second piece was more of a narration exercise, so recording audio over a piece of work produced last term. For this I gave up with both Audacity and Soundslides and used iMovie and Garageband, which was definitely better, although still not a good substitution for Final Cut Pro. Still it’s been good to work with basic software to learn what can and can’t be done with it.

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