We All Have a Past
Why is it that I can only get inspired when something is knock-you-over-the-head amazing or it's 6 in the morning and I'm facing a 10 a.m. deadline? Anyway, I've finally finished my Personal Project for MPV161. It turned into something much larger than I initially expected, and this video I've presented here is only the first iteration of what is sure to be a very long series. My grandmother is a wealth of stories from a wonderful life. I plan to get the rest of my extended family in on the action eventually and include them to help tell the stories. I have so many ideas for this that I just can't see an end to it... but here's the beginning. *Note: There are some black spots in the video. Those are intentional and are meant to let you just listen to the story. Enjoy. For now you're have to link to it 'cause AudioBlog doesn't seem to like the .mp4 format. Also, let me know if you have trouble with it as well.
Download FamilyStories.mp4 (15369.0K)Win Mac
December 13, 2005
We All Have a Past *UPDATE*
I just wanted to boast a bit 'cause I'm feeling pretty good about my personal project and, a bit more importantly, the reaction I got from my teacher, Rick Ray:
"Great music"
"Good storytelling - great character"
"Black spaces are problematic, better for radio"
"Your narration is really great and structure is very nice"
"This could go on for 25 minutes. Left me wanting more"
"You have what it takes to be a radio producer"
My personal favorite is that last one. I ended up getting an A- on the assignment even though I turned it in late* and got a half-grade taken off, so I'm very pleased. I'll be working on this more, as I said, and hopefully I'll have version 2 up sometime in the next few weeks. Thanks to everyone else who's said encouraging things and offered your advice and opinions to help me make it better. It's much appreciated.
*As I said, this project turned out to be much larger and intensive than I expected. Rick took into consideration the fact that I undertook a project much larger than anyone else and did a great deal of prep-work and audio editing in Soundtrack Pro (something not taught in the class). Also, this project was a bit outside of the norm for the class.