Monday, May 17, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Instructional Help Project
Instructional Text Help:
How To Save A Movie Maker Project As A Movie File
Today you are going to learn how to save a Windows Movie Maker project file as a movie once you are done making it. It is a very easy process but many people are unsure how to do this since it is kind of hidden away in the menus of Movie Maker.
1) Once you are done completing your movie maker project and ready to save it as a movie file to see it play and transfer it from one computer to another without having to bring along all the files. Saving the project file has many benefits and saves space on your computer. First you are going to have to go to the top left hand-side corner and click on file this should give you a drop down box of options.
2) Second you are going to look in the same drop down box of options that you opened in part one and look for an option called “Save Movie File” and then you are going to click it. This should open up the “Save Movie Wizard” and you are going to choose where you would like to have the movie location.
3) We are only going to focus on the option we us in school. The option that you are probably going to select “Save To My Computer”, it is the first option from the top in the “Save Movie Wizard” box of options.
4) After choosing “My Computer” you will then be prompted to choose a file name and choose a place where you want to save your file. First choose what you will call it then once you have chosen a file location (on default movie maker saves the file to “My Videos”) you can go ahead and click next.
5) If you have followed the steps completely so far you should now be prompted to choose the settings for your video. You can choose more choices to make the video to exact settings but I recommend going with “best quality for playback on my computer” and you can now click next.
6) This will bring up a status bar showing how much the video is completed. The time in which the video is completed depends on how large the video was the larger the file the longer it will take. Once the status bar reaches 100% you are done.
7) Now Movie Maker Will ask if you want to play back the movie you just made when you click finish. You can go ahead and click or unclick this option depending on if you want to watch it or not. I recommend watching it to see if you didn’t mess anything up.
Now that you know how to save a movie file from a “Movie Maker” project you can show all your friends and family you’re Videos. If you follow this tutorial correctly you shouldn’t run into any problems.
How To Save A Movie Maker Project As A Movie File
Today you are going to learn how to save a Windows Movie Maker project file as a movie once you are done making it. It is a very easy process but many people are unsure how to do this since it is kind of hidden away in the menus of Movie Maker.
1) Once you are done completing your movie maker project and ready to save it as a movie file to see it play and transfer it from one computer to another without having to bring along all the files. Saving the project file has many benefits and saves space on your computer. First you are going to have to go to the top left hand-side corner and click on file this should give you a drop down box of options.
2) Second you are going to look in the same drop down box of options that you opened in part one and look for an option called “Save Movie File” and then you are going to click it. This should open up the “Save Movie Wizard” and you are going to choose where you would like to have the movie location.
3) We are only going to focus on the option we us in school. The option that you are probably going to select “Save To My Computer”, it is the first option from the top in the “Save Movie Wizard” box of options.
4) After choosing “My Computer” you will then be prompted to choose a file name and choose a place where you want to save your file. First choose what you will call it then once you have chosen a file location (on default movie maker saves the file to “My Videos”) you can go ahead and click next.
5) If you have followed the steps completely so far you should now be prompted to choose the settings for your video. You can choose more choices to make the video to exact settings but I recommend going with “best quality for playback on my computer” and you can now click next.
6) This will bring up a status bar showing how much the video is completed. The time in which the video is completed depends on how large the video was the larger the file the longer it will take. Once the status bar reaches 100% you are done.
7) Now Movie Maker Will ask if you want to play back the movie you just made when you click finish. You can go ahead and click or unclick this option depending on if you want to watch it or not. I recommend watching it to see if you didn’t mess anything up.
Now that you know how to save a movie file from a “Movie Maker” project you can show all your friends and family you’re Videos. If you follow this tutorial correctly you shouldn’t run into any problems.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Self-Evaluation
Describe your game (including a title) The title of my game is “Are You Afraid Of The Dark?” I decided to name this the title of my game because in it you venture underground into the dark and on some parts you don’t have a torch just the dim lighting of the background. My game is pretty much find the escape pod and you win. You venture threw the level and underground and encounter many enemies along the way.
What is the objective of the game? Go threw the level and find the escape pod to win the game. It’s a simple task but I think its better then having to find a crystal which is too time consuming on some parts and defeating all the enemies isn’t really a great objective.
Discuss two strengths and one weakness of your game. Two strengths of my game I think are one, that I made the layout of the game easy to navigate but still fun to go threw with all the interesting backgrounds I added and two that its not very long but its still challenging to get threw. One weakness to me is just the overall layout some parts are kind of messy with stuff now that I look back on my game.
What improvements could be made? One improvement that could be made is increasing the length of the game to some people it may seem to short or too quick to play threw it.
What difficulties did you encounter while creating your game? One difficulty I encountered while creating my game was that when I started to go underground I didn’t block off each section to the other so if you were at a high point you could pretty much jump to the end of the game.
What did you have to modify or change from the original design? I changed the objective at first it was to defeat all the enemies in the level but since some of the level was underground it would be to dark to see some of them and you would run passed them and get to the end and not have completed the objective. I changed it to instead that when you get to the end if you survive all the enemies you leave the mission with an escape pod.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your performance during this assignment. Strengths were that I was able to make a good game and weakness was that I failed to complete the write up on the game on time.
Questions About My Game
Was The Game Too Easy?
Was It Well Layed Out?
Was It enjoyable ?
What is the objective of the game? Go threw the level and find the escape pod to win the game. It’s a simple task but I think its better then having to find a crystal which is too time consuming on some parts and defeating all the enemies isn’t really a great objective.
Discuss two strengths and one weakness of your game. Two strengths of my game I think are one, that I made the layout of the game easy to navigate but still fun to go threw with all the interesting backgrounds I added and two that its not very long but its still challenging to get threw. One weakness to me is just the overall layout some parts are kind of messy with stuff now that I look back on my game.
What improvements could be made? One improvement that could be made is increasing the length of the game to some people it may seem to short or too quick to play threw it.
What difficulties did you encounter while creating your game? One difficulty I encountered while creating my game was that when I started to go underground I didn’t block off each section to the other so if you were at a high point you could pretty much jump to the end of the game.
What did you have to modify or change from the original design? I changed the objective at first it was to defeat all the enemies in the level but since some of the level was underground it would be to dark to see some of them and you would run passed them and get to the end and not have completed the objective. I changed it to instead that when you get to the end if you survive all the enemies you leave the mission with an escape pod.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your performance during this assignment. Strengths were that I was able to make a good game and weakness was that I failed to complete the write up on the game on time.
Questions About My Game
Was The Game Too Easy?
Was It Well Layed Out?
Was It enjoyable ?
Design
What type of game are you going to produce? I have decided that I am going to produce a plat former type of game; because I think it plays better then a shooter game especially on splodder the shooter type of game is not that fun to play.
What will it look like? It will probably look similar to a Mario adventure style of game where that objective is to get to the end of the level by going threw enemies and obstacles. I might have it tunnel into the ground to have a underground part to my game.
How will the characters be controlled? The character in my plat former will be controlled with the button layout given by splodder.
What will be the objective of the game? The objective of my game will either be defeating all the enemies or finding all the crystals in the level. I may even have it to where you have to find an escape pod and along the way you’ll have to go threw a bunch of enemies.
How are you going to test its functionality? I am first going to test its functionality by playing a demo then I will probably allow my classmates to test it.
How will it be evaluated? It will be evaluated by design, level layout, difficulty and overall fun you have while playing it.
What will it look like? It will probably look similar to a Mario adventure style of game where that objective is to get to the end of the level by going threw enemies and obstacles. I might have it tunnel into the ground to have a underground part to my game.
How will the characters be controlled? The character in my plat former will be controlled with the button layout given by splodder.
What will be the objective of the game? The objective of my game will either be defeating all the enemies or finding all the crystals in the level. I may even have it to where you have to find an escape pod and along the way you’ll have to go threw a bunch of enemies.
How are you going to test its functionality? I am first going to test its functionality by playing a demo then I will probably allow my classmates to test it.
How will it be evaluated? It will be evaluated by design, level layout, difficulty and overall fun you have while playing it.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Investigate
What makes a “good” game enjoyable to play? What makes a good game enjoyable? A good all round game makes a game enjoyable. What I mean by that is it has to have a good everything, a good soundtrack, good graphics, good presentation, good characters and most importantly online modes where you are able to play with your friend’s increases the longevity of the game.
What makes a “bad” game not enjoyable to play? What makes a bad game is probably just the complete opposite of what I find in a good game. If the game doesn’t have those features then I will probably not find it enjoyable and not consider it a good game.
Game Plan
What will you do first? Why? First I will probably set out to find a central theme or goal that the player will face while playing my game. I will decide on if I want to choose a plat former or a shooter game. If I choose a shooter I will probably think of the main goal in it but If I make a plat former I will have to decide if the mission will be collecting all the crystals, defeating all the enemies or simply finding a an escape pod.
How will you insure that you complete the project on time? I will in sure that I complete the project on time by using the given class time well and if I feel that I cant finish with the class time provided then I will do some of the project at home.
Who will test beta versions of your game? I will first test the game myself and once I feel that it is good enough I will get my class mates to test it out. If I get a positive feedback I will start putting on the finishing touches on it and if not then I will take the negative feedback I received to edit what they found wasn’t good about my game.
Will you incorporate other people’s suggestions into your game’s design? I will incorporate their suggestions by going back and changing what they found was not good or lacking in my game.
How will you decide if you have created a good game or not? I will initially decide if it is good by playing it myself at first and then just the feedback I receive from everyone who plays it after me
How will you insure that you complete the project on time? I will in sure that I complete the project on time by using the given class time well and if I feel that I cant finish with the class time provided then I will do some of the project at home.
Who will test beta versions of your game? I will first test the game myself and once I feel that it is good enough I will get my class mates to test it out. If I get a positive feedback I will start putting on the finishing touches on it and if not then I will take the negative feedback I received to edit what they found wasn’t good about my game.
Will you incorporate other people’s suggestions into your game’s design? I will incorporate their suggestions by going back and changing what they found was not good or lacking in my game.
How will you decide if you have created a good game or not? I will initially decide if it is good by playing it myself at first and then just the feedback I receive from everyone who plays it after me
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sountrack Of My Life
1) Hate Me Now by Nas and P-Diddy: This song is part of my soundtrack because it talks about even if everyone hates what your doing and is trying to stop you from doing something you really want to achieve you ignore them and keep moving forward to complete that goal.
2) Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z: This song is all about my favourite city in the whole world, New York. When I am older I would love to move there and I was lucky enough to go there when I was younger to visit my uncle. So every time I hear this song I am reminded of this great trip and of my favourite city and Jay-Z is one of my favorite rappers next to Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G, Nas, Kid Cudi, and T.I so that’s just a addition to the great song.
3) Ok, You’re Right by 50 Cent- I feel like this song relates to me a lot because this song is all about ignoring negative comments and just agreeing with what the person said to you. So if someone says something negative like you’re so stupid just respond “ok, you’re right” and they probably wont know what to respond to it so it’s a great way to stop a conflict.
4) It’s My Time by Fabulous: I really like this song because it is probably my favourite song to listen before any kind of competition. Either it’s before basketball, football or even when I am playing Madden 10 this song is really inspiring for me to do well in whatever im about to participate in.’
5) Money to Blow by Birdman: This might sound like just another rap song where they talk about how much money they have but to me it has a inspirational effect. I want to get good grades in school so I can get a nice job with a big pay check so I can also have money to blow so this song reminds me to finish school even though it’s mostly boring.
6) Changes by Tupac : This is probably my favorite song of all time Tupac talks about all the problems in our world and how we need to change them.
7) Juicy by Notorious B.I.G: This song makes my soundtrack because it’s a very inspiring song. This song is about how Biggie was just a average kid growing up but he followed his dream and became a legend in the rap industry.
8) My President by Young Jeezy: This song is about how Barrack Obama became the first black president ever elected in the United States. I think that because of Barrack Obama being elected really shows that racism is going away, it might not ever go away but this was probably one of the top moments I have ever witnessed.
9) Young Forever by Jay-Z: Probably the best song on Jay Z new album The Blue Print 3 because of how inspiring it is. It is all about how life’s to short for you to not follow what you want to do and that even if you pass away your name will always live with your friends and family.
10) Turn Me Up by Benny Benassi: I recently got into techno and Benassi is probably one of my favorite dj’s.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
My Photo Story
1) Picture 1 is a photo of and XBOX 360 Controller. I really enjoy playing video games and I spend a lot of time playing games. I have been playing since I was young and my first system I remember playing was the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but currently I enjoy the Playstation 3 and XBOX 360.2) Picture 2 is a basketball player. I love basketball it is my favorite sport ever and I know anything and everything about the sport. I like to play with my friends and anytime there’s a game on TV I am either watching it or watching the highlights afterwards.
3) Picture 3 is a movie reel because I love watching movies at home or at the theatres. My favorite genres are comedy, action, and horror and my favorite movie of all time is 2 Fast 2 Furious.
4) Picture 4 is a picture of a dog. I put this here because I really like dogs but unfortunately I don’t own one, but my family and i are looking to get one. Dogs are probably my favorite house animal and i would love to have one.
5) Picture 5 is textbooks which represents school. I like going to school most of the time and my favorite subjects are Science, Math and especially ICT :)
6) Picture 6 is a football which is my second favorite sport of all time. I love playing football and my favorite position is quarterback, running back and wide receiver. My favorite players in the NFL (National Football League) are Adrian Peterson, Chad Johnson, Michael Vick, Michael Turner and Randy Moss just to name a few.
7) Picture 7 is a picture of a car. I am very into cars ever since i was little and started to collect Hot Wheels and i probably used to have over two hundred of them but recently gave them to my little cousin. The car i want to own in the future is either a Nissan Skyline, Toyota Supra and Mazda RX7.
8) Picture 8 is a picture of a city. I choose this picture because i enjoy traveling a lot. The places I have visited are India, Toronto, Calgary, California, New York, Vancouver and Detroit. I like traveling because you get to see things you don’t get to see on a daily basis.
9) Picture 9 is a picture of a bike. I like riding bikes ever since i took off my training wheels and i enjoy taking bike rides when ever I’m bored. My bike gets me around every where i need to in a reasonable distance.
10) Picture 10 is headphones. I choose to use this picture because i love music and its a pretty big part of my life. My favorite genres are rap and hip hop. My favorite artists are T.I, 50 Cent, Kayne West, and Jay-Z.
That Concludes my photo story
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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