Surfing has always been a big part of my life. My mom started surfing back in the 60’s and she has seen many changes through the years. My mom got my two sisters and me into surfing when we were real young. I wanted my final project to be about surfing because of the fact it is so important to me. My good friend Philip and I shot some video of us surfing, I created a short film for another class, you should see that here on my final project. Along with the video you will find pictures, music and other information.
This is a picture of my mom back in the 60’s with her classic longboard.
Steps during my project.
Step 1
The center point for my final multimedia project is surfing. I have already gotten started on the video, I have already shot the footage, at least most of it, and I have began to edit. For the rest of my multimedia assignment I intend to have some still photos, links to other sites about or relating to surfing, and an explanation about my project. I think this will be a worth while effort because I will be able to use what I accomplish in this class in my 100W class also. This class will be/ is different from my other in class lab assignments because for one reason much of the work is done outside of the class. Much of the rest of my material and research will also be done outside of the class. It is hard to say the amount of time that will be spent on this project because it will be spread out threw a number of days. I would say that I have already spent about eight hours on the project so far and I am only about a quarter of the way through it. I look forward to the completed product.
Step 2
My multi-media project is coming along finally. For the longest time I was having trouble with the pictures. I was trying to put my pictures from my computer directly. I realized after that I had to put pictures up that were on the internet. So if I had any pictures from my computer that I wanted up, I had to host them and then put them on. Once I figured that out, it was not much of a problem. I was having some trouble putting my video together and I don’t have the same program as the one at school but I am going to work on that. I could either go to school to work on it, or I have another program on my computer I could use. Maybe I could make bother just incase on does not work as well as the other. I have put some links to other surf relating sites. I have created a playlist of surf songs and created a page for them. I am going to put the paper for my final feature on here also because it is surfing related. I was also thinking about putting some other surfing articles up. Things are coming together pretty nicely now. I will be happy when it is all over and done, so I can see the final result.
Step 3
Well, my multi-media project is just about done. In my project I put up some links to both surfing related websites and surfing related articles. I put up some pictures that I took and some that I found on the internet. I put up some videos that I took and some from the internet, though I put one on YouTube and it was too long so I am going to have to go back through and shorten it. I put my paper on surfing up for people to read. Much of the project was frustrating for me because things were not working the way that I wanted them to. Once things started working though, it was pretty fun. I would like to make more surfing videos some time. I am thinking about getting a Mac because it was a real pain to only be able to work on my project at school. The finished project looks pretty good. I am happy with how it turned out.
