Final project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LDv-Q7NKM&feature=plcp


      Finally, I finish the final project. The process, with many difficulties, is very hard. But I have overcome them one by one. Although it is 4:28 am now, I feel a great sense of achievement.
      Like I mentioned in the last blog, it is a hard job to decide what should I do for the final project. Because "you can do anything you want unless it is illegal" means a very big range. Images, sound and videos are all fine for this project. So many things came to my mind at first, I even had the idea to make a film! But then I realized some of them are just my imaginations. I cut some of my ideas and went back to rethink our past projects. I found that I was still interested in the "special ability" project, so I decided to redo this one as my final project through a video. Because video is a combination of images and sound, it is the best way to tell a story through a video. And I have never made a video before, it is also a challenge for me.
      When I start to work on the project, I first think of which ability is my favorite if I can have it in real life. Destroy the universe? Dominate earth? Be a bank(with unlimited money)?,no. These are too big. I just need something small but significant. I found the ability I look for from an article on a Chinese magazine some days later. The article is called "10 things a person should do in his life", which is about dreams. Every one have his dreams, so do I. Since I can get a special ability in this project, why don't I make my dreams come true by the ability?  Finally I found the best ability to me for my dreams, also I think it is the best one for anyone's dreams. "Teleportation". I can get everywhere I want at any time by this ability free.
      The biggest difficulties appeared in the process of making the project. I don't use imovie as my tool because I have to do my work in library and I am an apple black(The people who hate apple). I use photoshop and ulead videostudio and formatfactory this time. I took a picture of myself and take my outline out from the whole picture by photoshop. Then I download 5 videos from youtube which are all related to my dreams. I convert them from mp4 to mpg by formatfactory. Then I combine myself to the videos in ulead. The final work is just like all of my dreams come true by the ability of teleportation. It sounds easy to do the work by my description in this way. But the process is really hard, I have no knowledge of these softwares at all at first. It takes a long time to figure out the problems.
       When I finally finish the project, I feel a great sense of achievement. Making a video is hard in my mind in the past. But now I feel like it is not that hard as I thought before. I am 100% satisfied with the project! Although someone may think it is bored, I put a lot of effort into it and tried my best to think and practice. I think it is enough because I have learned much from this project and this class. I am very happy with it!