Week five (really week six) is catch-up time. I've been out gallivanting down in Houston while I was supposed to be doing my homework so now it's actually after the last class and I'm finishing up all of the outstanding (meaning not done, not necessarily a reflection of the product!!!) assignments.
Finally got to work on the Pecha Kecha project in earnest. I chose to go with the idea of looking at several of the bassist who influence me as a beginning bassist. I storyboarded this and I had the thought that I could simply identify to pictured bassist and the band that they play in whilst a portion (20 seconds) of a bass-heavy song plays. So I went down this road. I gathered pictures from the internet - mainly Google Images - and uploaded them to Voicethread. I then searched through hours of youtube videos to find the samples that I was seeking. This search led me to drop a couple of my original ideas for bassist to feature as I couldn't find any good examples of their styles. I was mainly gathering good renditions of the bass lines done by bassists (not the original artists) that they uploaded to youtube. I figured that this version of the song would lack the original copyrightability as it is the new artist's interpretation. I found an online service that rips the audio from youtube to an MP3 that you can download free of charge (www.youtube-mp3.org). I then had to download a separate program, Audacity, that allowed me to edit the MP3s down to 20 seconds or less and add commentary. In the end, I think it worked out fairly well and I was able to learn about a couple new programs to assist in creating presentations. For its part, Voicethread turned out to be fairly easy to use. It took a little while to understand the functions for adding comments.
This was a pretty cool project but I'm glad that I don't have to present it. I'm fairly sure that, from an actual story telling standpoint, my presentation is not the best... but I am hoping that the background work that went into will make up for that fact.
Great course!
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