Animation challenge

I spent part of the weekend getting to know garage band and exploring its various functions. I learned to cut a track, add in basic tracks, fade in and out, and change the volume on individual tracks. I recorded my husband playing 3 different tracks on the guitar and then put them together in garage band with his help. When we were finished I felt as though my sound scape was missing something. I had initially wanted to add a natural sound to my sound scape but got carried away with the guitar recordings that by the end I had forgotten all about it. Once finished I was happy with the end result but then remembered about the natural component I had wanted to add. That was when I remembered I had a wave audio file in itunes that I had purchased for another project. I was too excited because this was exactly what my sound scape needed.

I am very happy with the end result of my sound scape. It exudes the exact feeling I wanted it to.

Fast forward to today's class: animation

I had played a little bit with Keynote on the weekend so as to not come to class with no clue as to what to do. Paul's brief tutorial on Keynote was exactly what I needed. I was already familiar with the build in and out function on Keynote and therefore, with Paul's suggestions, was able to play around and achieve an animation that was worthy of my sound scape. This is not to say my animations is stellar, in fact, it is far from stellar. However, I am happy with the final outcome. I am not an animation artist and am very aware that in order to achieve seamless animation hours are required. The most important outcome here is that I learned how to animate in Keynote and feel competent enough to teach someone else how to use it!