For this week's hands-on assignment, you should add real or royalty-free music to the digital story you created last week. Important Note 1: You may use the same photo story you already created, you may edit the initial photo story with new pictures, or if you prefer, you may create a new photo story for this week's assignment.
Important Note 2: Here are the updated instructions for submitting the .WMV file of your initial digital story. You will be submitting or transferring your file to the personal web space that you have been assigned on either the Viking or Mariner server.
This week, you should attempt to use WebDav for this transfer. Please review the information on using WebDav at:http://www.coe.uh.edu/mycoe/cite/docs/webdav.cfm
After you have uploaded your digital story file to the server, try to access it in a web browser or media player and copy the URL. Then post a comment in which you paste in the URL and discuss your experience adding music and narration to your digital story.
If you are uncertain or have problems, bring the .wmv file with you to class next week.
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I deleted the digitized music I had in my previous digital story and imported music.
The music I imported I had ripped from a CD. Not wanting to violate copyright and only wanting a small segment of the instrumental music I selected, I took the music into Adobe Audition and deleted the part I did not want. I then edited the remaining music and copy/pasted it until it was the desired length for my digital story.
My narration is still uneven, though I did record some of it again. However, I have a bad cold and so getting it right is hard. (I know, I know. Last week it was an impacted wisdom tooth.)
I did use the WebDav and had no difficulties with it. I will be interested in editing in it, since it is supposed to work just like being in the CITE Lab.
Please feel free to view my digital story and offer feedback.
I am feeling better today and not so clogged up, and so I went back and worked on the narration some more. I had it all even, but because I am using the cheaper microphone that I have had for years, I could hear myself blowing into it at times, though I recorded off to the side. When I redid the narration for a few of the slides, trying to not have that blowing sound, I may have gotten the sound level off just a little.
Another problem with narrating slide by slide is the little bit of popping noise from turning the recorder on and off. I think one way around this is to make note of the timing of the slides and then go into an audio recording/editing program (like Audition) to narrate. Then, mix down that narration with the music and import it into PhotoStory 3 as a single music file, making sure it is the length of the video.
I decided to try out WebDAV for saving directly from PhotoStory 3 on my home computer into my viking account folder. When I opened up "Computer" the X drive I had mapped was not visible. So, I clicked on "Map Network Drive." I selected "X" from the drop down menu for Drive, and there it was. I logged on from there.
I saved directly from the program on my computer into my X Drive. Beautiful! This eliminates extra steps in the future for developing and uploading files on my home computer to my viking account.
My story has three parts. In the first part, I added real music from a Vietnamese CD I brought from home, and it sounded suitable so I kept it. I replaced the digitized music in the other two parts with some more Vietnamse music. The problem was the new music was a bit loud when I heard it on the Preview, so I turned down the volume. I appeared to be a bit small when the clip was played again, but it did not affect my narrative as before. the third part I re-use the first melody. Thus, I used 2 pieces of real Vietnamse music I ripped from a CD.
I did listen to some music on Jamendo but it was not to my taste, so I returned to my music. This is my story with the real music:
This is my story
Anh
I very much enjoyed your digital story. It is well-scripted and informative. I liked seeing pictures of where you are from. The contrast between those pictures and of Houston is very interesting, as are the pictures of your culture's food. Great pictures of your family, as well.
Although the music was a little louder in some places as far as competing with narration goes, I think you did a great job on this. You have a compelling story of leaving your homeland for a new life and of coping with occasional homesickness.
Well done!
I decided to create a new digital story. I enjoy creating them and I learn something new everytime I use this program. I didnt know how to rip a CD or insert music until this class assignment. I dont think I will ever use digitized music again. Using music was instrumental to the message that I wanted to present with the digital story.
On my previous personal digital story, my narration sounded pretty good and I used the cheap microphone as I didnt get a chance to use the snowball microphone. My friends said I sounded like I was selling my condo as they saw it.
I will now try to link my new digital story with music. Feel free to view it and let me know what you think.
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~rcavazos/CUIN7358/REACH.wmv
Ok,this weeks assignment was difficult, because I was finding it hard to find the right music that fit with my story. I am still not satisfied.
Oddly enough, the "cheesy music" seemed to work well with my story. Music changes everything :)
I will still try to find better music, but here is my photostory with "real music"
http://mariner.coe.uh.edu/~rlacquey/rebeccalacquey3_1.wmv
Okay, I added music from one of my favorite cd's onto my photostory. It was fairly simple, but I only included short clips from the songs and in between the 2nd and the 3rd song it sounds like someone scratched the cd or something. I tried changing songs, but it just keeps happening, so I will leave it alone. I like the idea of changing music within the same photostory, but I think it would work much better if there were more photos. That's it, see you guys later.
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~abarela/PhotoStory/DigPersRealMus.wmv
Adding real music was a lot of fun! I tried to pick music that meant a lot to that part of my life and helped represent the environment I was in. I downloaded all of my music from Limewire, and I got a wide variety of music to complimented not only my pictures but my different taste in music as well.
I still had to put the music low so that my narration would carry over it, and the last few slide feel a little out of place, but I am hoping the music helps carry them through the end of my story.
I also changed the look of some of my pictures to emphasize a more nostalgic feel to the beginning of my story.
Either way, I am excited to finally post my URL with my post!
So I lied. For some reason the cut and paste didn't work the first time. Here is the full URL:
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~abarela/PhotoStory/DigPersRealMus.wmv
Rachel's Photo/Videostory with Music
Here is my photo story (that was made with Windows Movie Maker) with music added. I was not able to have narration and music simultaneously for some reason. If I can figure out what the problem with that is, then I will repost with a new link. I did the narration after I added the music because I wasn't sure exactly how I wanted to narrate. When I did that it put the narration and the music on the same line and I was unable to have both.
I really had fun making the music time exactly with the pictures the way I had imagined it too. I only used music that I had the CDs of. I either already had the files ripped onto my computer or I ripped them to the computer just for this project.
Well, here I am, posting again; however, I received my new Snowball microphone yesterday, and so I have redone the narration.
I discovered a couple of things about using the Snowball.
First, I am using the Vista Premium Home Edition platform on my laptop. The system automatically installed my microphone when I connected it with the USB cable--but it muted my internal speakers. To correct this, I left-clicked once on the sound icon on my task bar. When it opened the panel, I left-clicked once on the sound icon there (which also showed the mute symbol). The mute symbol disappeared, and I was in business.
Second, although my background music was still at the same level that it had previously been, it was much louder when I deleted my original narration done with the cheap microphone and added the narration with the Snowball. In other words, my music was louder with my voice narration done on the Snowball. I had to adjust the volume level of the music.
Third, the quality of sound with the Snowball is so much better than with the cheaper microphone. Not only does my voice sound better (and I am still battling my cold), I also did not hear the low buzz from the computer or the popping noise made when I turn on and off the voice recorder in PhotoStory, as I go from one slide to the next.
Below is my original version done for this assignment with the cheaper microphone, and below it is the redone version with the Snowball.
First version with cheaper microphone
Second version with Snowball microphone
Becca
I thought the music you selected was beautiful, and it went with your story very well. What a touching story of your relationship with your father.
Rachel,
Your digital story is fun! It has personality. :0) I think the text slides add a lot to it, more than narration would have.
Music can really add so much to a presentation. It made me think of the one I created for my youngest daughter when she graduated from high school this past May.
X:\homepage\cuin7358\Gavin's story.wmv
I decided to make a new digital story from the perspective of my eldest nephew. I thought it might be fun to capture how he felt when it was just him, when he got a little brother, and now that another sibling is coming.
I used music from my CD collection that I thought best fit each moment. I was already familiar with ripping the songs from a CD, so this was no problem.
I wasn't sure how to edit each song so that I got the piece of the music I wanted; instead, I sectioned the music to fit the pictures I thought best went together as a whole.
I uploaded this from the campus since I happened to be there already, so I didn't try WebDav yet.
It was difficult to find the right pictures for this story because I did the project from home and used only digital pictures (no scanner at home). Some of the pictures came out blurred because they were small, but I worked with what I had. I hope you all enjoy watching this and that you get a sense of how my nephew is through this story. My ultimate goal was to bring out his character (and make myself seem like a great aunt...you'll see what I'm talking about.)
\\viking\home\dvalde62\homepage\cuin7358\gavinstory.wmv
this is the link...it's a struggle just get this thing up, hence my multiple deletions
I enjoyed adding music to the photostory. Ripping the music was something new to me. I enjoyed selecting music from my boyfriend recordings as well. This project lead me want to make a photostory for my parents for their wedding anniversary. http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ealeman/cuin7358/Digital%20Photography2.htm
Rene,
I really liked your story. It had a very strong message and didn't leave me questioning what was your point of view or dramatic question.
At first I was a little unclear because the song "Reach" is so inspirational, but then the images and text began to show steroid usage and ask questions etc.
Some questions I have are how could you make your story even stronger? Also, who is your intended audience? What ages? Are you thinking of how they will react when they see it? These are some things to consider as you strengthen your story(ies).
Andrea,
I like the variety of music that you used. It did go along well with your story.
**FYI**
Hi everybody,
Dr. Robin, Danna, and I have divided you all into groups of nine, and we will be posting comments, etc. to each of you who are in our groups.
Thx--
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Keyana Jackson
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~kjackson/cuin7353/kjacksonphotostory_2_ciara.wmv
I used a song from my Ciara Evolution CD. I used this song because the beat fits perfectly with my slideshow. I did not do any editing but I turned the volumn low so that it would not over power my voice.
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~dvalde62/cuin7358/gavinstory.wmv
finally! the right link!! sorry!
Hi Judy,
Thank you for your comments. I think I should have improved the sound in my story, too. But I could not borrow the Snow Ball last week and mine is a cheap microphone, so I left it as was. But I will borrow the mic again and work more on the sound quality. I have Window Vista, but I have not explored all it has to offer, so does it consist of Vista Premium Home Edition? I will try this next time with my story. Thank you for the instruction too.
I started by looking at my existing story and although I liked the theme and the ideas expressed there - I was unhappy with all of the music that I could find and I was not massively keen on the narration. I think that if the music is good enough then this can be enough to support a chronological story like the one I was telling.
To this end I changed the tone of the story entirely. I was still using some of the same pictures and the theme was the same (essentially my life culminating in us coming to America). As I had decided to try and avoid narration and use only a limited number of text cards I took my inspiration from silent movies and looked for a nice upbeat piece of music. I was origianlly looking for ragtime tunes or something similar in order to get an authentic silent movie feel, but I found a nice Victorian piece among my stock music and decided to use that.
All the photos were edited in Photoshop to remove the colour and apply a strong directional light source. The contrast was then turned right up to give something closer to a silent movie effect. I manufactured the intercards using a free font I found on the internet.
I realised that there was a natural break in the events in my life (essentially being in the UK and then coming over here or the past and the present) so I made the decision to make the digital story in two parts. The black and white silent movie part represents everything that has gone before and everything that we left behind. I then moved to colour and selected a new piece if stock music (a nice bit of spaghetti western style music). I think it actually matches the images well and this part of the story did not seem to warrant the intercards.
I did consider doing the US section in washed out sepia tone to make it look like an photograph from the old west but then I found myself leaning more towards the clarity between black and white = past; colour = present / future. It is obvious and rather underdeveloped as an idea but I think it works OK.
Anyway, enough of my rambling.
Hal's Intro Digital Story with Stock Music
Well, I was working on two projects these last two weeks... first, I went ahead and took my personal photo story and added new music. I usually use Limewire to download music, but I thought I would try something different and downloaded a Hawaiian Instrumental piece from Amazon music (for only .89 cents)... the download was quick and easy...
I have also been working on a photo story that connects to our Pop Culture presentations... our group is working on Advertising, and I was able to get a rough draft together pretty quickly. I used music from Dire Straits, Gwen Stephani, and Blue Man Group. While using this music, I attempted to use only short clips from each, so as to try and follow the "fair use" guidelines. I'm not sure if I was successful, but it is only a rough draft... hope you like it.
My Personal Photo Story
Advertising Photo Story
I did some minor editing to the photostory so here is the new link:
X:\homepage\CUIN7358\PhotoStory2.wp3reach.wmv
Okay, so I played with adding real music to my photostory and I also changed most of my narration. Most of the music that I added was from CD's that I'd ripped to my computer. I did however, download a few songs/sounds from Limewire, burned them to a CD, then ripped them to my computer in order for me to use them on my photostory. The entire process seemed to be fairly easy. I guess the toughest thing was choosing the songs to use. I actually did a lot of "trial-&-error" to check if I liked the combination of songs/pictures in my story. I changed them quite often till I was finally satisfied.
I just finished the Photostory and I was a little upset to find out that for some reason, secure shell does not seem to work. Last week I successfully transfered over my file, but today, I tried and it didn't work. I opened secure shell and typed in my name and password as usual. However, once I'm in, it states "the file/directory doesn't exist" and "add current connections to profiles" is flashing. I'm not sure what this means. None of my stuff is there. I tried looking for other folders with no success. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do at this point. I'll just have to take my file to class and turn it in through the CITE lab.
I decided to use the same PhotoStory, and I spent most of my time experimenting with some different types of real music. I used She’s Gone, a song from the 1970s originally created by Hall & Oates, but I chose the version by Tavares. Unfortunately, I ran into the same problem Keyana had and was forced to adjust the volume to the lowest audible level to ensure that my voice narration was still heard. Sometimes my voice narration clashes with the vocals. At other times, when my voice is silent, the song fits well with the images. I tried another song by Jann Arden, but I thought it took away from my narration and decided not to use it. I was marginally pleased with how the lyrics of song sounded, and I think the lyrics could represent subconscious self-talk. I also used a couple of instrumentals that I ripped from a Best of Lawrence Welk CD. It was definitely easier to find instrumentals that fit with my PhotoStory. I used Moon River and something called Love is Blue. Moon River is dreamy and fulfills the original intent I had for my PhotoStory. I think Love is Blue fits better with my PhotoStory even though it creates a sense of hope. I have included the links below.
A Natural Betrayal-She’s Gone
A Natural Betrayal-Love is Blue
A Natural Betrayal-Moon River
My most recent photostory is now up and available here
here by clicking on "Photostory3."
I think that music definately has the potential to raise the quality of the video quite a bit. Unfortuately, I don't see that as the case with my story. The music just didn't seem to flow. Better luck next time, eh?
Here is my updated digital story with music.
I deleted the photostory generated music and replaced it with some music I found on the Free Play Music Website. I have been using this website for years, both for personal use and for classroom use with my students. The website allows you to use their music for free (for non-profit use) and to top it all off there is a vast selection of really cool stuff. Check it out if you have never used it before. :)
All in all, I am happy with the way my digital story turned out yet I still feel annoyed by the sound of my own speaking voice being recorded. From here on out, I am just going to have to hire that movie preview announcer guy to do the voice-overs for all of my future projects. ;)
Okay so I followed the instructions on the new way to turn in our assignments. Turns out I have a mariner account and not a viking like I used to. Anyway, this is the site to my updated photostory:
http://mariner.coe.uh.edu:1234/cgrimaldo/homepage/cuin7358/cgrimaldophotostorywithsound2.wmv
I hope you don't have trouble accessing it. When I tried, it asked for my username/password so you might have to enter yours...hopefully it takes you to my photostory!
I forgot to put the address to my digital story in my message. So here it is... http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~kscott/cuin7358/cuin7358_3.wmv
Becca--I agree that the computer music did well with your story, but the music you chose is very appropriate. Great job, as usual.
Chris--you have really brought up the quality of your work. I think the music might have been better if you stuck with just one or two pieces. I especially liked the middle piece of music. The only criticism I have about the story is that it ends a little abruptly. You might want to spend a few seconds drawing all the elements of your story together.
Rachel--I really liked your earlier versions of your photostory. I feel that, while the music excerpts you chose were appropriate for each slide, changing them so often caused a disjointed effect that kept the story from having cohesiveness.
I see the difference in utilizing music from another source in digital stories. I decided to rip a cd for this assignment. I also added just a couple more images to my original story to add some length and get the point across. I do realize that there are a couple of photos that are pixilated, but that is only because I don't have access to my photographs of my family...so for now these will have to do.
The used a soundtrack from the IMAX, Hurricane on the Bayou. I think it works with most of the images included in the story. I don't know how to (if even possible) cut songs to certain parts...but that effect would have helped my story.
Amber’s photstory with music
ealeman,
I love the music you use for your background. It's soft and light. I just really enjoy it. What is it called?
Click here for Ramadan video with narration and music.
Since I used MovieMaker, I included imported music in my posting from Class Five assignment. I’m reposting it here for Class Six assignment.
I apologize for not posting sooner. I am so use to just doing my technology work on my homepage and being done with it. I keep forgetting I have to post a blog so that you guys know where to go. Here is my photo story with my music not the computerized stuff. The only thing I want to learn to do (if it's possible) is to be able to get the snippet of music I chose from the song. A lot of times the song isn't on for very long and then it changes to another song. Just curious if any of you know how to do this.
Here is my link
\viking\home\amanzoor\homepage\cuin7358\atifa4.wmv
Let me know if this works. I have been having some issues lately with my links working.
I used some pictures I took in Vegas this summer. We went to go watch the Beatles Love show at the Mirage hotel. I am an absolute fan of the Beatles.
Here is the link.
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~kso/CUIN%207358.htm
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~crepa/grad/iamcarolynp.wmv
This is my photostory with music and naration. I was having trouble adding music and naration using movie maker, I have to create a file in roxio music editor and then transfer it to movie maker as one audio file.
For this week's assignment, I added real music and narration to the photostory created a couple of weeks ago. I had to change the time of each image to correspond to the narration. For the music, I chose the song "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts. At first I had a hard time matching the volume of the music and the narration. The mixing part was simple because all it took was one click of a button. Now my photostory is complete with music and narration.
I went ahead and just reused the photo story that I had created for assignment #5. The adding of real music was difficult for me because it took me a while to find music that was not too distracting. Most music with lyrics seemed to take away from the story so I had to find one that I felt enhanced the story.
Personal Photo Story With Music
For this week’s assignment. I used the photo story that I created in week3. I added a real music in it. The music I chose was one of Korean movie’s background music. I think the music really matched well to the images.
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~shwang/rm.wmv
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