Music Genre Project- Gaga Techno Pop

My music genre was Gaga Techno Pop.  I chose Gaga Techno Pop because of my obsession for synthetic dance music and Lady Gaga.  For finding my songs and information, I used my favorite Gaga websites along with the official sites for David Bowie and Boy George.  My music was already in my iTunes so all I had to do was import it.  To put together my project i used iMovie, Garage Band, and a collage creator for my opening slide.  I wanted "Gaga Techno Pop" to be compiled of a bunch of pictures of Gaga, Bowie, and Boy George.  It was very easy for me to get the information on Gaga because i already knew it, it was also easy for me to create the video/ audio montage at the end of my project even though it took a while.  It was difficult for me to get everything to match up as perfect as possible.  I used a few still slides to make sure the information was known.  I could use this for many things, especially in classes like world studies where we do a lot of presentations.  I made sure to site everything i used on my works sited page along with songs.   I played the piano in my ending video so i didn't have a problem with copyright laws for that.  I would love to do another project like this! Anything that can involve Gaga and my love or music.

PND Culture iMovie Project

    Our teams topic was the PND Table Tennis club.  I took part in creating the slides, finding pictures, and finding a cool and fun video of table tennis players.  I think our team really learned how to divide work and  we all did a really good job at listening to each other.  As a team it was very easy for us to work together which really benefited as far as getting it done.  It was difficult for us to find the proper formats at first, and getting good quality videos.  Our ideas transferred fairly well into iMovie.  Table Tennis was originally from Asia so we wanted to create a bamboo esque background to our iMovie.  I hadn't really used iMovie before so it was definitely a learning process.  Almost everything we did in our project we had never done before but I think it worked out really nicely.  We could use the skills we learned in almost every class.  Currently I have a project in World Studies that I can use these skills in.  To get around the copyright law we made sure all sites were properly displayed in our works cited page.  If there was enough time I would do a project like this on my own.  However, I think these projects have enough work for a few people.

Podcast

1.  What tools and techniques did you use to create your podcast?
I used ducking so my music wouldn't over power my voice when I began speaking about my movie.  I also edited the song to fit the length of the podcast and added some special sound affects.
2.  How could you use a project like this in other classes?
If I ever have to create a podcast for another class I will know how.  It will also come in handy if I ever have to make any other project on Garage Band because it taught me the basics.
3.  In the “real world”, how could podcast projects be used (In what careers/businesses, etc.)?
Podcasts are used everyday for the workers at iTunes.  I'm sure some business' use them for presentations as well.
4.  What part of the assignment was easy for you?   What was difficult?
The music was the easiest thing for me.  I thought it was difficult to make sure you could hear my voice ok over the music.  Sometimes it would be very clear, and others it wouldn't be and I couldn't figure out how to make it pretty even.
5.  What part of the directions would you like to clarify?
How to make sure the music gets quite enough while the speaker is talking.