Ariana's Blog

I continued writing the scripts about the basics of Tinderbox. Explaining the six views was more difficult than the previous tasks. Each view has its own features and also shares some common features with some of the other views. Thus, it was hard to classify them in order to explain them in a more effective and meaningful way that includes repetition and common features, something that makes learning easier.

However, despite the fact that I was still writing the scripts we spent half of the day to make a draft of the first movie. We began with shooting the narrator and the voice-over. We used a small digital camera for this purpose. We used one of the meeting rooms for the shooting, which proved to be efficient. The light was good and the noise was controllable. However, the problems started when we finished shooting and we tried uploading the movies to the computer. The machine did not recognize the digital camera and thus did not upload our short movie clips. We tried different computers but no one let us do this. Thus, what we did was to shoot for again, this time with a webcam. This time we managed to have movies into the computer. However, even though the sound quality was good, the quality of the picture was very low. Nevertheless, we decided to use this video initially to create a draft movie.