Lynda Certificate Activity: Adobe Audition CS6 Essential Training

This week I viewed the Adobe Audition CS6 Essential Training on Lynda.com. I’ve had no prior experience with audio programs other than importing audio to PowerPoint and iMovie. This entire session was very valuable to me because I have never worked with Adobe Audition. Honestly I’d never even heard of it before.  What I found to be the most beneficial for me was the “working with Video” portion. I work with video most often to learning how to sync a soundscape to my videos was great! It was nice to know that there’s any easy way to sync audio to the video as the video is playing, using “Multitrack Session.” It was also great to know about how to import audio from Premiere Pro to add to the Premiere audio within Audition. I loved that last week I learn about Premiere and saw this week how to work Premiere and Audition together.

Week 4 RISE Peer Review

I will be evaluating Cory Sinnot's project. Cory, I loved your topic because it relates to mine in that they both involve the video game industry. I also thought your survey questions were thoughtful and laid out in order that makes the most sense. I like that in your synopsis you recap the goal you had for your survey and the data you were trying to collect. I also think you idea to create a medium for the Video Game Community (VGC) is a great idea and that reflected in the data you observed.

I would have liked to see actual numbers throughout your synopsis, meaning you could say something like 12 out of 21 participants enjoy watching other people play video games. Or you could even say something like 100% surveyed believe Quality is more important in a YouTube video than quantity.

I thought your Infographic was great! Lastly, your GoogleDoc shows the same document twice but the second one doesn’t load all the way (the duplicate). I would just make sure to remove the duplicate in your final. Overall Cory, I think you did a fantastic job and you gained the information you needed from your survey.

Lynda Certificate Activity: Adobe Premiere Pro

Having never used Adobe Premiere Pro, all of these video tutorials were beneficial to me. I have very little experience video editing and when I have done editing for past Full Sail classes, I’ve only used video editing applications on my phone and iMovie on my Mac. Having a long tutorial using almost every aspect of Premiere Pro was very helpful, especially when showing tutorials using all different types of videos from sports to fantasy movies. It was really fun to see how certain effects change the film and how to utilize those effects in these films.

I loved learning how to stabilize film because I only create videos using my iPhone currently as I don’t have a camera. So my films become very shaky, so learning several different ways to help stabilize and synthesize the video for many different types of cameras is awesome!

MCPP Portfolio Project Submission: MCBS Course - New Media Tools - My Digital Story

Star Rating Sought: 1 Star Approval Rating

Project Description:
For this project in my New Media Tools course, we were asked to create my video describing out journey to why we're attending Full Sail University and chose the degree we're currently working towards. I created my video in Power Point and grabbed images from EBSCOHost and through the Power Point image library. Then I grabbed my music from Westarmusic.com, so that nothing used in the video was copyrighted.

Link to Project:

Feedback Received:
My instructor and peers feedback included changes to my sentence structure throughout the video and making my background music louder.

Resources Utilized:

For this project I needed access to Microsoft Office software. I used Microsoft Power Point,  my iPhone 5 to record my voice through the iPhone voice recorder application, and access to the EBSCOHost and Westar Music libraries.

Best regards,
Taylor Kearney

MCPP Portfolio Project Submission: MCBS Course - English Composition - Appeal for Action Essay: Indies Meet the Media

Star Rating Sought: 1 Star Approval Rating

Project Description:

For this project in English Composition 1, we were asked to create an essay based on a topic we believe needs improvement. For my topic I wanted to focus on the industry I plan to dive into after I graduate, which is the gaming industry. My essay was about the need for independent (or Indie) developers to execute good PR and marketing strategies, which is essential for their success.

Link to Project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EfEwT8fdK3V2JGOE96YmdnNVk/view?usp=sharing

Feedback Received:

My instructor and peers asked me to change my introductory paragraph to reflect the message of the entire essay sooner. They felt the message/topic was better explained in the second paragraph. I was also asked to use more quotes from the references I found to better communicate the need for good PR in the independent gaming industry. Finally, I was asked to make small changed to my References page.

Resources Utilized:

For this project I needed access to Microsoft Office software. I used Microsoft Word to complete this project.

Best regards,

Taylor Kearney

MCPP Portfolio Project Submission: MCBS Course - Project Management - Project Proposal: IndieCon

Star Rating Sought: 1 Star Approval Rating

Project Description:

For this project I was given the task of creating a local event (in Seattle). In creating this event I was in charge of making the events goals/objectives, risk analysis, timeline, budget, key personnel/staff, financial resources, and marketing plan for a pitch to get this event started. I chose to create a local event based around the gaming community, providing an event where local independent (or indie) developers to showcase their games and become recognized by larger companies, which gaining exposure and building/growing their fan base.

Link to Project: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EfEwT8fdK3Z1pqZDRSa1ZvT2M/view?usp=sharing

Feedback Received:

My course instructor told me to adjust my cover page to be more aligned. She also asked me to incorporate “Days to Complete” in my Timeline section. I was asked to add “pins” and their cost to my Budget plan and adjust the cost of “Print Advertisement/ads/flyers” in my Budget plan as well. My final grade was 100% after making these changes.

Resources Utilized:

For this project I needed access to Microsoft Office software. Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word were what I used. This project was an individual project so no team members contributed.