Report on your progress of uploading your own one to two minute audio-visual production using still images, text, audio, or video and embedding it in your blog. Question: do you own this production? Consider whether you have created all the content yourself OR used content that is available to re-use under a creative commons license OR used freely available public domain material. Remember, you may only use creative commons material that allows derivatives to be made. If it specifies that you must share alike - then you must also share your video material under a CC license.
If you want to try using content that is freely available here are two places where you can find some content that you may use without breaching someone else's copyrights: CC Search, and a blog post with a list of free content providers. You may have to try a few of the places linked to from that blog post. Remember to attribute all CC content that is not yours in the credits of your video (or on your blog). Will you release your own work under a CC license, including your blog content?
Our group met on Tuesday the 13th of September in order to show each other our edited interview footage. Before hand I had interviewed two of my roommates asking them the five question we came up with in last week’s tutorial. I made sure I ask them prior to filming, "Are you willing to let us film, record and share your answers for the purpose of a Griffith university study." Once this was done I used my roommates MAC laptop to edit my footage on Final Cut Pro. This needed to be done in order to discover the important answers and to make time putting the whole video together a lot faster and smoother. On Tuesday all of our footage was put onto one memory stick and we went through and grabbed the best and most varied answers from all of our footage. We were unable to use everyone's complete footage as it would go way over the 3 minute limit and also some footage was clearer and louder than others. Jellan then took the footage home, to structure the final film. Jellan used iMovie, on MAC to compile the footage into one film. Putting the footage together was an issue, during putting all of our chosen answers together one of the interviews was freezing 10 seconds in which caused us problems. We then had to convert each piece of footage to mp3 in order to make them useable. This then caused a further problem, as the sound then became out of sync with the visual footage. It took a very long time editing and moving the sound, piece by piece to finally match with the visual footage. As for the introduction to the film we all put some ideas together and came up with, a school boy coming home from school and going straight on facebook, where he had a friend request from Denis Ferguson. This was filmed by Jellan, with his neighbour before Wednesday’s tutorial.
In our tutorial the next day, Wednesday the 14th of September, we used Jacqueline’s Mac, on IMovie to add the introduction to the interviews. We then created and added subject pages showing each question the interviewees were about to answer. We then needed to select music for the film. We originally through of using garage band to create our own soundtrack but figured using Creative Commons would be easier and quicker.
In out next tutorial on Wednesday the 21st of September, we added the credits and music to our footage. We were told to show our tutor our video before we uploaded it to YouTube to prevent any errors or law suits for compyrighted material. Unfortunately, due to copyright we are unable to upload our video to YouTube and must email it to our tutor instead. This was because of firstly, we need to get Facebook’s clearance on using their logo in our video and due to the lack of time, this wouldn’t have happen fast enough. The other issue we had was due to the fact that we created a facebook page for Denis Ferguson and used a picture we found on Google. As we do not own the rights to his picture we are unable to use it without permission from either the photographer or Denis Ferguson himself. Because there is so much media attention and legal restrictions surrounding Denis Ferguson the chances of getting permission would be very slim. To overcome this issue we therefore had to change the name to Peter File, and get a photo from Creative Commons, and we would then not be breaching copyright.
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