Week 12 - Final Assessment

This was the big day. The powerpoint presentation had been created by the other team member I think she had done a really good job of it.

The presentation seemed to go quite well and our machinima was well recieved by the group. I had thought that it would be better to show the machinima first and then describe the events. However, this point was picked up by the assessors saying that we should have explained the storeyboard and the events of the video. I felt quit guilt about this because this is how the original presentation had been planned and I had been the one to insist we changed it.

Week 11 - machinima

This machinima project has proved harder than I had imagined, we have encountered problems at every step of the way. This has taken over my life. These problems and set backs will be well documented in my final report so I won't go into them here and now.

Because the filming and acting have taken so much of my time, I have been unable as yet to develope my scripting skills sufficiently to get a liquid to pour from a can.

We have downloaded a free recorder package called CamStudio. CamStudio records all events as they occur on the screen.

The video clip below highlights a number of the problems encountered while attempting to film a car race. My car is virtually undrivable but we have got some fantastic crash shots. There are only two of us in the team and it is just not possible for us to film the vehicals interacting with each other from the front. The cars move quickly and the environment can't keep up (not shown in this clip) we also keep filming pop up messages.

Week 10 - Audacity

This week we were to download and use Audacity for editing sound.


This is free versitile audio editing software, allowing the addition of multi tracks and sound effects. Each track and effect can be edited seperately but are combined into one track for export.