This week we created a facebook 'page' for our video titled "Information Fighters'. Our idea behind this page was to add some depth to our video concept by using an additional technology medium to portray our ideas and to even see how many people we can get to 'like' the page.
My job is to create this page, which only took about 45 minutes. After I got it up and running I asked my other group members to collate any pictures they had that we will possibly use in our video and upload them all to our facebook page/photo album, that way we will be able to see all the pictures as well as attract curiosity to our page.
In addition to this I have started to broaden my picture/image search to the following sites, which are both royalty free content sites:
1) Dreamstime.com
2) Shutterstock.com
I found these sites by searching in Google.
All I have done is sign up with a free membership and that enables me to browse and use thousands of royalty free images under the condition that I recognise the source of the image and the site it came from in correct format, and use them in the following ways, as stated on the FAQ page of their website:
In our case, we can use them in our video.
We went to the Mac computer lab at uni with all our images and music ready to upload to the Final Cut Pro and realised it wasn't on those computers!
So we have had to use iMovie instead - a little scary being that none of our group members have used it before.
We have managed to teach ourselves how to upload all our images/music to it to start creating and editing the video.
We haven't ended up using all the images we collated on our facebook page for the video, because we've found while editing the video, that the short 1.5 - 3 minute time limit is rather quick!
Finally after inserting all our images and text into the video, (we decided against using voice recording too as it takes away from the legitimacy feel of the video) we have completed our video!
It has taken roughly 7.5 hours to get it the way we want it, well considering the short time frame of just 3 weeks that we have had to think of an idea, research images, music and copyrighting laws and put it all into video form, we have done well.
The last thing we have done, and after seeking advice from out tutor is credit every single one of the images and the song that we used in our video.
We have done this by attributing them all in the description part beneath where we uploaded our video to You Tube.
A great job and here it is for your viewing:
Reference:
Frequently Asked Questions, viewed 19 September,
http://www.shutterstock.com/faq.mhtml#FAQ_Q_HOW_DOES_SHUTTERSTOCK_WORK_.
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