Gantt Chart.

This is the gantt chart that indicates our group's workflow for the whole assesment. So far, we have closely been following this chart and working according to plans.

Final Storyboard.

This is our final storyboard for our video project, containing a combination of all our individual storyboards put together. The lines in green are Anjeli's narrations, the lines in red are Justine's narrations and the lines in blue are my narrations.

Storyboard FINAL

6th of June 2012.

Creating a Storyboard
Today in class, my group and I split the components of the project between us to complete a storyboard on. I have the topic of What Can Augmented Reality Do. Below are the storyboards I have created for these components of the presentation.

What Augmented Reality Can Do

Sequence: #1
Shot Description: Oblique Shot
Transition In: Pixelate
Video Image:  Props including Google Glasses, Cockroaches and a Gaming Set
Audio Recorded: Narration/Script
Added Audio: Instrumental Music
Transition Out: Flip
Estimated Time of Take: 1 minute
Narration/Script: Augmented Reality can be used for a various amount of reasons. One example, is that it can help with overcoming your fears. You may not believe this, but it’s true. Take someone who is afraid of cockroaches for example.  Augmented Reality can help this person overcome their fear, as when they look anywhere, like a screen for example;  Augmented reality will automatically project the surface with cockroaches. The idea of this is that it will expose this person to their fear (by controlling the amount of cockraoches they want to appear) to gradually extinguish it. This does not only work for cockroaches however, as it can also help other fears such as flying or falling. Another example that augmented reality can be used for is to enchance gaming, which is currently the most common use for augmented reality. How, you may ask. Well, it can change gaming by bringing your game out of the screen and into the real world, by projecting it in places around you, making you the main character of your own game. These are many more uses for this upcoming advanced piece of technology and the possibilities are endless.

Disadvantage of Augmented Reality; How Expensive It Is

Sequence: #1
Shot Description: Close up Shot
Transition In: Crossfade
Video Image:  Props including a Person, Money and a Company
Audio Recorded: Narration/Script
Added Audio: Instrumental Music
Transition Out: Pixelate
Estimated Time of Take: 20-30 seconds
Narration/Script: With many individuals going through financial problems in today’s society, it may become difficult for augmented reality to be sucessful in sales. This therefore, can come as a disadvantage to both consumers and the manufacturers of augmented reality. It will affect the manufacturers itself, as if they don’t sell their products sucessfully, then they won’t be able to make a profit and creating these products may be considered a waste of both time and materials and it will affect individuals as they may not have enough money to afford this sophisticated piece of technology.

Advantage of Augmented Reality; Advancing Today’s Technology

Sequence: #1
Shot Description: High Angle Shot
Transition In: Flip
Video Image: Props including Technicians, Hospitals and People
Audio Recorded: Narration/Script
Added Audio: Instrumental Music
Transition Out: Crossfade
Estimated Time of Take: 30 seconds
Narration/Script: Augmented Reality has already been in the process of development for decades and is now currently on its way to entering the market. This can pose as an advantage for augmented reality, as through releasing  this newly developed and sophisticated technology, it could help in increasing and advancing technology in specialised places such as hospitals, where it would not only help in the survival of the sick patients but it can also be a source of entertainment and education for them while they are there. Releasing augmented reality also increases the standards of future technology, therefore challenging other manufacturers to also create and develop new and advanced technology that will sophisticate the future.

1st of June 2012.

Today in class, my group & I have planned out the structure of our video project. Below is the layout, including the titles & sub-headings we will be presenting in order for this assignment.

Topic: What is Google Glasses/Augmented Reality

Layout:

1. Introducing 'Augmented Reality'; How it works & POV shots.
2. What it can do/Functions; POV shots, More things it can do (List).
3. Advantages; Advancing technology, Endless possibilities & Multi-purpose.
   Disadvantages; Health, Privacy & Price.
4. Google Glasses; Case study / example; Design, Appearance, Structure, Possibilities, Development, POV shot.

9th of May 2012.

Today in class, since Mr Cavill was absent, we continued to experiment on Audacity Portable. While experimenting with this application, I have developed a basic understanding on how to use the application properly.

Below is a few of the skills I have learnt during the duration of the lesson.

Skill 1: How to record using Audacity Portable

Basically, by pressing the button with a red circle in a centre on the toolbar, you can easily record whatever you like. After recording your piece, click on the button with a gold-ish square also on the toolbar to stop recording activity. Click the start of the piece and press the play button to hear your final recorded piece.

Skill 2: How to import audio files using Audacity Portable
Importing audio files in Audacity Portable can be very challenging, but it can be done in a small amount of easy steps. Firstly, you have to click on the file option on the top bar of the window. Once you have clicked on this, you should have many options avaliable to you. The option you have to press however, is the link that says import. When this is pressed, you can import files from your documents, USB etc. When you have located the file you want to import, select it and press the open button located near it.

Skill 3: Editing sound
Audacity is a software that provides many different tools to edit sound. These tools can be found in the toolbar beside the record, play and stop buttons.

These are the tools and their functions:

Selection Tool
This tool can be used easily and effectively for highlighting any part of the sound that you wish to edit or delete.

Envelope Tool
This tool is one that is able to adjust and change the volume of any part of the audio, just by dragging the blue lines that appear in and out.

Zoom Tool
This tool is useful as it helps to zoom into your track, therefore making it easier to edit your piece of audio.

Drawing Tool
Using this tool gives you the ability to move the individual handles in your audio piece.

Timeshift Tool
This tool can only be used when you are using more than one track and gives you the ability to move the track to wherever you want to.

Multi Tool
This tool gives you acess all of tools at once.

Skill 4: Deleting sound
You can do this by selecting the part of the sound you want to delete. Afterward, just press the delete button on your keyboard.

Skill 5: Adding effects to the sound
You can add effects by pressing the effect button in the menu. Then, select the effect that you want to add from the drop-down menu. You can then experiment with the effects on your sound.

Here are three effects I experimented with and how they alter the sound file when used.

BassBoost
This effect basically allows the audio to increase the bass frequency.

Change Pitch
This effect allows you to change the pitch of your audio without changing the tempo of the audio. The pitch change can be altered in four different ways. The first is by musical note, the second by semitones, the third by frequency and lastly by percent change.

Reverse
This effect reverses the audio so that the end of the audio will be heard first and the beginning of the song will be heard last.

30th of April 2012.

Today in class we discussed about an application that we will be using quite a number of times during this unit called Audacity. I finally have installed it onto my USB with ease.

Questions
What is a portable application?
A portable applcation is an application that can be carried around on a portable device, such as a USB and can be used on any computer.

The advantages of portable applications.

• You can take your applications anywhere with you, as long as you have a portable device.
• You can set it up in any way you like.
• You don't need to worry about the computer losing files or setting up differently.
• They are free so you don't have to worry about paying for your application.
• There are a variety of applications that are avaliable as portable.
• Portable applications clean your registry.
• They are secure in computers and thumbdrives. 

The types of software avaliable as portable applications.
There are many types of software avaliable on the internet as portable applications. They can be put into many different categories. Some examples are stated below.

Accesibility

• Firefox Accesibility Extension
• On-screen Keyboard Portable
• Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable

Development

• AkelPad Portable
• Database Browser Portable
• Frhed Portable
• Geany Portable
• Notepad ++ Portable

Education

• BPBible Portable
• Celestia Portable
• Gramps Portable
• Marble Portable
• TypeFaster Portable

Games

• Big Solitaires 3D Portable
• Brutal Chess Portable
• Cube Portable
• Frets on Fire Portable
• Get Sudoku Portable
• Puzzle Collection Portable

Graphics

• Blender Portable
• Dia Portable
• GIMP Portable
• Inkscape Portable

Internet

• DamnVid Portable
• Google Chrome Portable
• Juice Portable
• Maxthon Portable
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
• Skype Portable

27th of April 2012.

Today, in our first lesson of IST for Term 2, we began our new unit on sound. We were allocated to do the activity Audio Sampling Rate and Sample Size for this lesson, as well as Installing  Audacity Sound Editor.

Task One:

Making Sound- Questions

1. Sound moves through what medium? Sound moves through the pressure waves of air.
2. Briefly describe how a microphone works, in particular what does it gather and what does it produce? A microphone works through vibrations and electrical signals. This process occurs as microphones consist of small membranes that vibrate, as well as a mechanism that gathers the vibrations of the membrane and produce them into electrical signals.
3. What unit is used to measure sample size? The unit used to measure sample size is bits or decimal digits.
4. What unit is used to measure sampling rate? The unit used to measure sampling rate is Hertz (Hz) or samples per second.

Audio Bit Depth Sample Size and Sampling Rate- Questions

1. How does sound quality vary with sample size and sample rate? Sound quality varies with sample size and sample rate as the quality of the sound is dependent through the sample size and sample rate.
2. What is another name for sample size? Another name for sample size is sample format.
3. From the above information which offers better quality sound, FM radio or AM radio? As evident above, the better quality sound can be produced by FM radio is at 96 kbits. This because it's bitrate value is higher than AM radio's, which is at 32 kbits and it is the closest to the Standard Bit Rate quality which is at 128-160 kbits.
4. Why not record all sound in extremely high sample sizes and sample rates? The reason why not all sound can not be recorded in extremely high sample sizes and sample rates is because large files can not be transferred as easily as small files can.