Media Arts – M2 Assignment – Short Video Sequence Creation

Here is the Short Video Sequence I created for my Final Project. For the Video Game Let’s Play, I chose Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. I am knowledgeable and skillful at the game, I am comfortable providing commentary, and I can professionally showcase my experience(s) playing the game. I edited the sequence of pictures using iMovie. The pictures were taken using my iPhone and I got the pictures from my Television.

Media Arts – M2 Blog Post #1 – Skill Sets

For the genres I will be including in my final project, it will be a combination of digital storytelling, and virtual worlds/video games.

I own an iPhone, and I use it to record all of my video and audio, and take all of my pictures. My iPhone is very useful for creating videos of video games while also taking pictures of video games to illustrate my positive experiences. Interest in Collaboration (1-5): 5

I own iMovie, an iPhone application that I use for editing video content, including the video itself, audio and images. iMovie also allows me to create more refined videos out of the content I edited. I can then add more content to the video using the application’s features, including titles, sound effects and themes, turning everything into a final project. Interest in Collaboration (1-5): 5

I own Microsoft Office. I use Microsoft Word for creating scripts. I use my knowledge of scripting and Microsoft Word’s features to format the scripts correctly and provide the necessary information included in a script. Interest in Collaboration (1-5): 5

Along with Microsoft Word, I use Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets. Excel is new to me, but I have been experimenting with the features and content it has. I use spreadsheets to organize information and manage data. Interest in Collaboration (1-5): 3

I am very interested in continuing my passion of digital storytelling and creating videos of video game experiences. I am really interested in creating a digital story/Let’s Play video of a video game, because it will be a positive start for a hobby/interest in the future. I have wanted to create YouTube videos for a long time now, and in the future I want to create YouTube videos of my favorite video games showcasing all of their content and my experiences.

I have provided below my list of Skill Sets in an Excel Spreadsheet:

 

Media Arts – M1 Media Arts Project – Final Project Proposal

Project Pitch: 

For my final media arts project, I am proposing to do a Let’s Play video of a video game that I am interested in. The Let’s Play most likely will include commentary, in addition to the video game content and my experience playing through it. The intended/target audience will be male and female gamers between the ages of 18 and 30. The exhibition and distribution plans will be to upload the project to YouTube to display the video, and share it with this blog and maybe Facebook to also play the video.

Detailed Project Proposal: 

It will be a Let’s Play video of a video game I own. I will use my PlayStation One or PlayStation Two as my video game console in order to play the video game. I will use my Television to play the video game on my video game console. I will provide commentary during the video to provide my gaming experience playing the game, and also provide game content with music and sound effects that the game includes. I will use my iPhone to record the Let’s Play, commentary and gameplay along with the sounds and music, and make sure I get the best quality my iPhone will allow. I will use an iPhone tripod to stabilize my iPhone as I record my video game, while having me and my controller free in order to play the video game. I will also be using iMovie, an app for my iPhone, to edit the video and audio clip(s) and create the final project. After the final project is complete, I will upload the project to YouTube and share the video on my blog and maybe my Facebook page for the world to see.

The script will include my commentary, in addition to the video and audio clip(s) the game includes. The script will go through the whole short video and sequence of events from start to finish.

The project will be a documentary of my video game experience. The video game content contains nonfiction elements, but the project itself will be real events of me playing the video game and my experiences. It will be an interactive project, where I play the video game, and the video game will progress based on my inputs with the controller. I will provide narrative in this project, which will be my commentary explaining what I am doing, and showcasing my experience while I play the game for my whole project/video. The video game will be linear, where I play the part(s) of the video game from start to finish. The script, storyboard and video may be both linear and nonlinear, including the editing processes. I may do an experimental run-through of the video game that I am deciding on for this project, but I have complete knowledge of the video games I have and can smoothly progress through the video games for the video part(s) of the project.

There will most likely be no budget, as I have all the necessary things I need to create this project.

The Target Audience will be male and female gamers between the ages of 18 and 30. I feel like that audience will be the most interested in video game/Let’s Play videos. I want the final results to have my friends and new people appreciate the Let’s Play that I create. I want to replicate the quality and hard work that the popular Let’s Play YouTubers put into their videos.

The video game/Let’s Play experience will be a high-quality project that will showcase my ability to make Let’s Play videos. I want to be able to make YouTube videos of video game Let’s Plays more often in the future.

I will use a gaming setup I created that will be used as my recording and project environment, as well as my bedroom for my setting. 

Rough Outline/Timeline:

1. Find Video Game to Play
2. Figure Out Which Video Game Console to Use
3. Test iPhone and Television with Quality, Sound and Voice (Commentary)
4. Set Up Gaming Setup
5. Project Test Runs – Comfort
6. Storyboard
7. Script
8. Shooting Script
9. Record the Video with Sound Effects, Music and Commentary
10. Progress Through Project – New Recordings – Changes/Adjustments
11. Live Roundtable Review
12. Editing & Final Touches
13. Final Project

Media Arts – M1 Blog Post – What Is Media Arts?

What is Media Arts?

To answer this question, I decided to break up Media Arts into “Media” and “Arts” to post the response.

“Media” is the major forms of mass communication. Mass communication includes Television, Radio, and the Internet. Those are also considered older forms of media, but they are also the dominant forms that have been around much longer, and still thrive in the world today. There is also new media in addition to the old/mass media. New media is technology that is spreading rapidly around the world, becoming more popular, and being widely used in more areas. New media includes social media sites, video games and video game consoles, YouTube, and blogs.

“Art” is human expression using their skills, creativity, interests and visions.

To combine both “Media” and “Art” into one term, Media Arts is human expression through mass communications. Media Arts is people creating their own, interesting artwork(s) on a new media technology, and sharing them through media for wide audiences around the world to see. One media, which is a new media, that is allowing people to portray their media arts stories and projects are blogs.

Blogs are frequently updated Internet Websites and Webpages, where people can express themselves to the world. People can write text, post pictures and videos (add media), and provide links to outside sources. People use blogs to focus on their own interests and lifestyles. Blogs are a great new media that allows people to portray their skills and share their content with large demographics and audiences through the Internet. Blog sites are free to use, and the Internet has a huge population and contains mass media like social media sites and YouTube. Blogs are a popular and easy way for people to start sharing their experiences with online audiences. The only negatives with blogs are that some of them can focus on smaller, more specific audiences. Blogs can be hard for some people to spread to mass audiences based on their aforementioned interests and lifestyles. People have to use social media sites like Facebook, and new media sites like YouTube to help spread their media artwork(s) and share their experiences further with the world if the blogs do not do it alone.

Media Arts is going to be implemented in my blog environment by using my interest in playing video games. I plan to use my interest in playing video games on my blog by demonstrating my video game experiences.