I am so behind!

My apologies team! We agreed to have all our content completed & polished by Thanksgiving break, and I have not accomplished this. A significant geographic relocation of the entirety of one's material possessions will certainly derail one's academic progress a bit (i.e. my family moved from Iowa to Milwaukee & I spent time packing instead of doing homework). But fear not! I will be putting in extra hours outside class to work on my slide shows & stories. I am confident I will complete my assigned tasks in a timely manner.

On a tangent, this multimedia stuff really does take FOREVER. I knew it would take longer than I anticipated, but I was unprepared for how much time it genuinely consumes. As previously mentioned, multiple hours of work outside class lie ahead of me.

On a positive note, I'm quite pleased with the content we've gathered. I am also impressed with Lindsay's completed iMovie slide shows. They give me hope that I too can create decent multimedia!

V-Ball

The volleyball shoot went well, thanks to the miracle that is the little lens. Linda's video seminar left us with a few helpful pointers, and Lindsay reports that the footage we capture from the game is very serviceable. We also thought to start capturing ambient noise with the iTalk from the beginning this time, which we hope will come in useful behind a slide show.

All of our content has been gathered at this point, although I'm still working on getting it all in one place.

The Five D's

The night's sport was dodge ball. (Is that one or two words?) Shooting dodge ball proved to be much more difficult than we all anticipated. We couldn't capture both sides of the action. Lighting was also an issue. However, once Marino remembered to use my fast lens (f1.8) we got some high quality photos. It looks like the video will end up as a montage, due to the short length of usable segments. We also did some video interviews. We also used the iTalk to record ambient noise (oh, the excitement of dodge ball!). With three of us there, we had all the bases covered. All in all, a solid night's work.

(I have a confession; I've never seen the movie Dodgeball.)

at long last...the backpack!

We finally have possession of the long-awaited backpack! That thing is heavy (& awkwardly shaped). The iPod also does not work - it looks like previous users shoved the iTalk in without much care. We also don't have a charger for the phone, but we don't anticipate having a need for it. Now I don't want it to sound as though I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth (i.e. complaining). It is so nice to finally have a place to store all our content. And the iBook is slick. Plus we've learned about iWeb, which also looks to be quite fun to use.