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My final project had a couple of steps. I took the book Greg gave me in class, and found a short story in it. I then took the story and adapted it into a short script. I modernized the story, and I think it came out well. After writing the script, I then told the story through Powerpoint using still images taken from a digital camera and phrases with those images. I added music with the right sound for the piece, and I think this was the best project I created. I probably think that because screenwriting is a passion of mine, but telling it using still images was new to me, and I am very happy with the way it turned out.

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The creation of the short website took minutes for me as I work with them at my job at the school library. I didn't do anything special, and I just made it about my first project in the class, flip books. The website can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/vxx25

This was a completely new process for me. I had never used a webcam or iChat before. Therefore, it was confusing at first, but we eventually got it. It was cool to finally use a webcam, as I'm sure it will become even more popular in the future.

I worked with Alex and Amanda on this project. This was the performance piece. We all sat in desks in from of the room and had a Powerpoint presentation projected on a screen above us with thought bubbles. These thought bubbles showed what we were thinking.

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My first project in DemTech was to create flip books. This was one of the first uses of motion picture. What I did was take a few clips of historical pieces such as a test shot of the atomic bomb, Ali vs. Foreman and a clip from one of the greatest films of all-time, The Godfather, and I then transferred these clips onto Final Cut Pro. Using Final Cut Pro I was able to seperate the clips into sequental images. After doing so, I made them all the same size, transferred them to Microsoft Word, and printed them out.

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