Music Genome

Music Genome

Copy the questions below and paste them into your blog post.

Number and answer each question in complete sentences.

1. Upload your movie to your blog. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format. You can also upload it to YouTube and embed it into your posting to save time.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8Lfmhw9Mc

2. A) Classical Music B) My family loves classical music and has always been involved in it.

3. I google searched famous classical music composers and then looked up their best pieces.

4. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...] I used effects to change the colors in some of my pictures. I used transitions to make the video more visually appealing.

5. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project? Finding videos and pictures and information for my project was easy. As was finding the music I wanted to string together.

6. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you? Having everything come together in the end. It just seemed messy until the very end. It took a lot of editing to make it satisfactory enough for my standards.

7. Did you decide to use still slides? Why or why not? [If not, how did you convey your information? Yes. I used the ones I thought would make illustrate my points better than the video. I used text to convey most of the information needed. It would have detracted from the audio had I used my voice to commentate.

8. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted? I could use it in art class to talk about the different styles of art or artists. And in the real world it could be used to promote something or "pitch" something for work.

9. What new techniques or technology tools did you use in this project that you've never used before? Be specific. I've never used Zamzar. I have never before taken footage from the internet and converted it to mp3 or mov. But that isn't really a "tool" I pretty much have used iMovie a lot in the past (and garageband too) so I have used every tool in those applications before.

10. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976?[...not just that you cited the information, etc., but how did you transform the music, information, images, etc.? I used them to show more information on classical music. It enabled me to give an accurate and realistic idea to the viewers of what classical music is. I created something new from what footage I obtained.

11. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not? I would use iMovie and garageband on my own time, but not to tell about a form of music. It is time consuming.