Aud/Vis Spring 2022

Introduction: Our first look into animation with a still image video has been eye opening. I have used various programs in small settings over the years but I am in no way an expert in any form of video editing. This was my first time using Premiere and I found it a little intuitive because of my use of other Adobe products in Professor Heagney's class. For this project we were to tasked to edit our rough draft of 10 still image photos with a voice over or music underneath it and animate at least 5 of the photos.  Our Topic: Will Harris and I came up with the idea to make a sort of spoof on the crocodile hunter or discovery channel by talking about the "wildlife and habitat" of HPU. We will "explore" the campus to find the best way to survive while meeting all the new people and places.  Editing: The biggest challenge I had to overcome was how to find everything in Premiere. It seems like there are endless settings in each of the 4 windows and what you do in one...

 Blog 03: Rough Draft 2        Derek McGannon Heagney 1112-03 2/24/2022 Reminder My topic was what math is most important for the every day person to have a basic understanding of. I love math and physics and I have been finding the project very fun. I've learned a lot as I have gained perspective from experts and I understand where the average person is coming from in their opinions. Fine tuning the audio has been interesting. Professor Heagney likes to keep the audio between 12 and 6 so that has been my goal to keep the audio at a stable volume throughout the whole work. One of the tasks I had to do this blog was remove pops that I had to identify visually as a long vertical bar (Sengstack, 2013). The biggest task was editing the music to not start the next verse and continue the instrumental. I felt like a music producer as I had to recreate the music and fade it out. https://soundcloud.com/derek-mcgannon/blog3-mixdown

Blog 02: Expert Interviews         Derek McGannon Heagney 1112-03 2/23/2022 Meet The Experts People on the street offer good incites to average people's opinion on a topic. But expert opinions must be found in people not chosen at random. My topic is "What level of math should everyone know" no matter what you do professionally or in your everyday life. My first expert was HPU student Jalen Dixon. Jalen is a Biochemistry major with years of calculus under his belt as he continues into a math heavy field. His unique experience as a student allows him to give expert level advice on what levels of math are important to learn. The second expert is Dr. Karen O'Hara, a mathematics professor at High Point University. After learning math through 21 years of schooling she has taught various levels and genres of mathematics for more than 20 years.  Editing Editing audio was very educational in this blog. I had to clean up some of the interviews by removing noise. Rat...

Blog 01: Person On The Street         Derek McGannon Heagney 1112-03 1/22/2022 Introduction Welcome to the first blog post of 2022! This year I will be displaying the progress for my Audio Visual Class COM 1112-03, and most of my work will be done through Adobe Audition.  Our first project is a person on the street interview audio recording similar to Billy on the Street but without the camera. I am excited to see where this takes me as I edit my own dialogue as well as those of the people on HPU campus. I have iterviewed two students, Kayla and Jalen, as well as Dr. O'Hara who is an expert on the topic of mathematics. I know her beacuse she is my calculus teacher here at High Point University. Theme Creating a theme for the interview was difficult. I brainstromed my passions and landed on one of my favorite subjects in school which was physics and math. I wanted to see what people thought on the subject since many people dont share my passion or hate it in...