Chapter 3

Finding information in today's society is the quickest and easiest that it has ever been.  Search engines such as google, yahoo, and bing are used by millions of people every day.  Most people use the search engines most basic feature only.  But what many don't know is that using these search engines can be even easier if the engines tools are put to work.  For example you can use a word, question or term to help clarify what kind of results you are looking for.  This is known as a search query, the query should contain a keyword relating to what you're searching for.  You should be carful when choosing your results however, as some websites may be inaccurate and should be avoided, spelling and grammar errors should be your first hint to avoid the website because it may not be a source of viable information.  There were many helpful search engine tools and techniques defined in this chapter.

Career Goals

I am in the digital video and audio track of digital media, I am learning to film and edit movies.  My long term career goal is to direct movies, but I also have a strong interest in editing and visual effects, and hope to begin with a job in that.  Idealy I would like to edit movies (next to directing them) or possibly television shows.  I am currently searching for any internships in the field of video/audio or editing.  I've found it very difficult to find such internships in the area, but i have been told about a digital effects studio in buffalo and plan to contact them in hopes that they offer an internship program.  This class so far has helped me to learn how to better navigate the web.  I feel much more fluent in my knowledge of web browsing and websites etc.  The world of video and the world of the internet are very much conected in todays society.  It would not be easy trying to get a career in digital video with out some knowledge of the internet, so this class has definatly helped me greatly.

Secondlife (3)

Today we edited the video that we recorded with cam studio, each of us took a portion of the film and cut the scenes together in the correct order, we also removed the unnessicary footage.  We then got a microphone andbegan recording the voices for each character, and found sound effects to add into it.  Despite our terrible acting I think the finnished product will sound okay.

Secondlife (2)

We have finished our storyline, and recently began recording our video.  We are using a program called cam studio to record each scene.  We are recording most scenes with three camera angles.  It is more difficult than I expected to make each scene look the way we imagined.  However, Despite having a few casual secondlife useres occasionally getting in the way, everything is going smoothly

second life (1)

   My group and I recently began planning our secondlife machinima project.  we began by simply discussing possible plots and events for our video.  Once we had the basic idea down for our storyline, we needed costumes and props, so we began searching secondlife for areas with free stuff.  We collected anything that we thought we might be able to use in our video.  I am learning how to navigate better in secondlife and different ways to aquire objects.