Part+Two

I probably "got the most" out of the poetry-interpretation-video-illustration project. Probably. My group of James, Matt, Ben, and myself were able to utilize both the Audacity and Premiere programs which, I'm pretty sure, none of us had ever previously used. Somehow Matt and James became instant experts on Premiere while Ben and I were left eating their dust, so to speak. I also personally liked this project because we used my own original poetry written for none other than Mr. Masson's eleventh grade English class last year. My brilliantly heartwarming poem about a kitten hiding in a bag was able to translate beautifully to the "small screen." Using Audacity was a little intimidating at first, but perhaps that was just my nerves acting up on account of my voice's debut into the far reaches of the internet. But alas, I overcame my digital stage fright and ended up with a new familiar phrase: "Export as mp3." Using Premiere was a completely different story, however. I still have no idea how to use that program, but I felt my contribution of live footage, stock footage and images, and original material was enough of an addition to that project that I really needed to provide. The only real challenges we faced were the constant afflictions of laziness and Senioritis. Masson attempted to cure this every single minute of every single period by getting on our butts about it, and sometimes it worked, but sometimes, Bubble Shooter was just too addictive. Actually, another issue we had was the problem of finding "appropriate" images to use in certain areas of our poem. But, thanks to pixdaus.com we were able to find perfect images of cute kittens. The final product was a little less than what we hoped for, but the assignment was a little silly because we had to illustrate a poem, which I firmly believe to be completely against the purpose of poetry. But hey I mean we got a B on it or something so that's about average and I think we are all satisfied with the outcome.