Project 5 Critique

Ideas I incorporated
I was really paranoid about about my phone dying, or loosing memory. Also I thought one of my days would be boring, so I recorded over the weekend and procrastinated. I wanted to keep it short but still tell a story. I didn't want this long audio file that's boring and didn't really make sense so I try to cut out all the random excess audio. I kinda cheated using songs, but I thought it helped narrate my story so much better.

Was it Successful?
I thought this was one of my more successful projects. There was an idea behind it therefore it was much easier to do the project. Plus, once there was a foundation/ idea it was a lot easier to create new ideas from the original plan. I thought it was a pretty good representation of my weekend. All the transitions were as smooth as they could be. It was the best I could do from the cards I was dealt with.

What did I learn
Patience. It was hard listening to all this audio and trying to figure out what I really wanted in my piece. It was hard not to just stick everything on there. It got tiring listening to random "noises"  So I tried to remain patient and listen to the audio files from an outside perspective. (If that makes sense)

What challenges did I face
Everything with conversions. I assumed the files recorded with my phone would immediately open up in audacity but then I had to convert them into different files. After that, putting the audio on photoshop was more complicated (because I was using my pc.) Plus like I said, I was recording with my phone, so I would constantly stop recordings because I was scared the reccordings would somehow break my phone. My phone has to run the recording application on its own. So every time I would use a different app the recording would stop.

Resolution
With conversions, the obvious solution to that problem was just to convert the files, it was just a pain to convert files and take the time to re-download and everything. My audacity files from my PC wouldn't transfer on to the school macs. I ended up using windows movie maker instead of Photoshop. Despite then, it was still difficult to put the audio over a title screen. The maximum time for a title in movie maker was 30 seconds so instead I put a picture of the sunset.

Revisions
I'd probably have my recording run the whole time instead of constantly stopping it. I think I did the best I could with the tools and skills I had. I'd be more ambitious and take more time to really listen to what I recorded and maybe use less dialogue. (I don't know if I'd be able to narrate the "weekend" idea as well)