Sound Slides

Objective:  To create a unique sound slide presentation between 2-3 minutes.

This may seem like an easy task to people who are computer literate, but for myself it was extremely challenging.  I decided to go with a video montage of my years at St. Joe's.  I took important pictures from my freshman year to recently and placed them in correct order and decided which way they should transition (I did that part in imovie).  Then I went in Garage Band and pulled songs from my itunes and choose bits and pieces to put together -- this was the hardest part.  The songs had to sound good together and they had to make sense with the pictures.  I was able to convert this into one large song and then place it with my pictures.  The hardest part was transitioning, cropping, and placement of the pictures, along with the creation of the unique song.

So... here it is:  My Master Piece (which could use even some more tweaking -- things I saw when I published this version).  Your thoughts are greatly appreciated and encouraged!

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I saw this on YouTube while surfing and thought it was really inspiring!  First of all I really like the song playing in the background, but the message is unique.  I love how they were able to pull types of advice together and draw pictures to resemble them.  They all go together very well and are true for life! Ideas like "Finish what you start" and "Don't be afraid to fail"  are all very applicable in everyone's life. 


My sound slide is going to be based around a year in pictures.  I plan to take a bunch of pictures and add songs that relate well to them (small snip-its, so that a few songs can be heard).  It is a family tradition to have a year in pictures every year which my aunt makes -- we all sit down on Christmas Eve with family and friends to watch it!  It's a great way to remember the events that happen and it is something that will last forever. I'm plan on using imovie, but this is only my idea right now! I want to incorporate ideas from our Presentation Zen book using ideas such as the rule of thirds and how things fall into place ( whether they spin or zoom in at the end on one single point ). :)