October 16, 200

Three important things I learned in class this week:

1) Throughout critique we are able to explore our peer’s work and learn from their achievements. During my piece I included a heavy breathing to embrace the hard work of a talented dancer. The group consensus was that my breathing was much distorted and I should take a different technique. Succeeding to capture breathing in his piece, Pete let me in on his secret of recording breathing at 90 wav lengths and position the microphone around your lower chest for less distortion. I plan to reform my piece with this insight.

2) After our critique, our TA, Dana, introduced iMovie. This program will allow us to construct our movies for our next project and successfully create stop animations. We learned how to upload still images into the program through iPhoto. Also we learned how to change the duration of time each frame will last.

3) Learning a program cannot be any easier without actually doing it yourself. Dana split us up into partners to create a small video clip of a simple task. Pete and I chose walking up a flight of stairs. We successfully were able to import all our photos that we took using a tripod and camera into iMovie to create a QuickTime video. Stop animation was a fun and exciting process that I look forward to work in. In addition, Professor Beffel gave us the extra credit option to make a video on our own for homework; I plan on taking the opportunity!