Post Video - Recent Evaluation - Digital
The ability to produce media reflecting my conceptual visions was my goal in taking this course and program of study and I feel that I have completed the beginning phases of learning this process. Certainly this class has allowed us to take many of the first steps into the pool of progress and compared to where I was at the beginning of the semester (having edited audio using ancient techniques of splicing) I’ve made great strides into digital. It also occurred to me that I don’t believe I’ve ever blogged this regularly before.
Although I am by no means an expert yet in the world of flash and web-site design, I put in many hours of effort and this resulted in progress. Over the summer I plan on honing these skills with some self assigned projects and will stop using PowerPoint (outside of work) to craft ideas. If anyone wants to join in, let me know. I certainly improved a lot on photo editing skills and I will post a few before and after examples that I made recently going in to the final weeks. I also am more aware of what goes into design decisions and appreciate the amount of work necessary to create websites that we so often take for granted.
A major stumbling block for me was the PC vs. Mac frustration that would come up weekly. With limited time I would attempt most of these projects on my PC but only certain software would actually successfully download from the free 30 day trials from Adobe. Once in the Mac lab it would take a while reacquaint myself with the Mac (thanks cheap corporate IT budgets) – a platform I thought I knew but without daily practice on the latest OS I would sometimes get discombobulated. Regardless the extra time and effort are worth the potential results. I need to remind myself that in the past the photography, publishing and video production process would take much longer and would be much more disastrous for the environment when compared to our modern-day digital options. I also just need to force myself to finally get a current Mac for home use.
Once my finals are over next week I can’t wait to read Wabi Sabi again. That book and this class really opened me up to new ways of seeing and thinking.
Thank you Virgil.
