Portfolio Plug-in

The plug-in used to put up the photos in a slideshow view, is 

Evaluation

As a part of my group project, we were given a task to produce a website by working as a group. The purpose was to programme a website by using WordPress and produce interactive content to help engage with the audiences. Since we were working as a group, we had individual roles and aims. My role was the project manager, and I was responsible for the major part of the project. This involved controlling the group based on setting up meetings; provide everyone with tasks and ensuring that everyone completes their part of their role. Not only that, it also involved me gathering the content for our website, which includes; the logo, photos, music and voice-overs. But our overall aim was to produce a website based on travelling and ensure our website was informing, so that our audiences can gain knowledge from the content about specific countries in the world from our viewpoint.

During the process of producing the content, I managed to work with different software’s, which includes; Photoshop, Illustrator, Sony Vegas, Wave Pad and Audition. I used Photoshop to help me make the website’s logo and enhance all the photos to make it better quality. Illustrator was used to draw out the logo to make the geometric shapes. Sony Vegas was used to create the videos, by combining the recordings of the voice-overs, music and the images. As for wave pad, it was used to amplify the voice recordings, which increased the clarity and loudness of the voices as some of them were very low. Also, since the recordings were combined with music in the background, it would have clashed which would have made the voices very hard to hear. But with the simple use of Wave Pad, it managed to solve that problem. Audacity was used to crop out the voices and combined them for recordings that were divided. 

In terms of constructing the website, I was able to work with different plug-ins that WordPress has provided. The Google Plug-in was very effective with establishing the location for each part of the destinations.

However, I did encounter some issues whilst creating the videos on Sony Vegas as kept unexpectedly freezing which meant I have to close I kept having to close the program and restart it, which led some my work being lost. Time management was the main problem was time management, as I ended up leaving the most hardest part of the project, last minute which was making the video. 

In terms of a group overall we did well in terms of gathering all the content together and adding them to the website. 

Music for Video Editing

For the videos, I wanted it to have a music background along with the voice-over to make it more interesting. Therefore, I decided to pick some songs, where the song artist originated from. Most of the music used are commericalised, which means many people would know about them.

America, Florida


Canada, Toronto

France, Paris


The Netherlands, Amsterdam

 UK, London


Sweden, Stockholm


Syria, Damascus


To download the songs, I used http://offliberty.com/, which is a website where you can download songs from YouTube into MP3 files.

Contacts Page

The contacts page consist of details about our website. This includes; Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We decided to make an account for each of the social networking sites that is dedicated to our website. That way, it allows users to contact and follow us through various of methods. 

Map: 

I used the google maps plug-in to insert the map into this page. I placed the location to kingston penrhyn road because it is the only location that was easy to place in order to find us as a group. 

Facebook:

Catherine made a Facebook page which has all our information on it. I then inserted the page by applying the link to a Facebook icon so users can click onto it to direct them onto our Facebook page. 

Instagram:

Zara created a Instagram page which has our travel photos for users to engage with our photos. 

Editing Voice-Overs on Wavepad

Logic Pro - Music Editing for Background Music for Pages

As a part of project, we aimed to mash-up and remix music to make it our own. Therefore, I used a professional music software called Logic Pro from Apple. This software already had samples of instrumental beats, which I thought was useful in changing up a original copy of a song. We all wanted songs that suited along with each country's culture and background to help give users a cultural feel when they click on each location. Therefore, for the France - Paris pages, I decided to use the song; Maurane - Tout Faux and remix it on Logic Pro.

To create this I had to use my friend's keyboard to connect it with the programe. The keyboard allowed me to key in specific chords that went along with song. This was done by selecting a sample sound from Logic Pro and using the keyboard to key in the sound.        Click on the video below to listen to Maurane - Tout Faux         

http://offliberty.com/ 

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