Thank you so much

As we were told to meet our lecturer by Izyan this morning at her office, we felt an instantaneous uneasiness. We were anxious of what lied ahead and the destiny of our tasks that were yet to be submitted ^^

Thankfully, we were given a second chance by Pn. Foziah to submit the video on YouTube as well as accepting our 8TV production. The video is now successfully uploaded and can be viewed here and please feel free to comment on the strength and shortcomings of our production. Well, we've learnt a good lesson today that we're to be very sensitive to the datelines of assignments submission and be prepared to have back-up plan when technology fails us.

26th AUGUST 2008

7 days of rest meant a lot to me and getting back to this prestigious university of Malaysia wasn't something I'm looking forward to. It was week 7 since we started our adventure in UM. Once again we were left unattended for an hour in the computer lab and we took this time to update blog, checking emails and looking at our friends' video productions.

Alrighto, what's on for this week? E-book... We are required to work in pairs or individually to produce an E-book based on the topics we prefer. I personally think this is something good since the introduction of audio, picture and video editing as all these would come in handy when we step into the classroom 2 years later. Be it or not, it's still better to learn something new in this technology-dominated era.

Next, we were introducted to website that teaches us to create animated GIF online. This is something new to me as I had no idea how to produce such file that moves ! With the help of the tutorial, I just knew we have to create a few different pictures before the software can combine and make them move. Click here for the site.

12 AUGUST 2008

The clock is showing 10.45a.m. but our lecturer is nowhere to be seen. I took this time to study an article that we are required to make a summary out of it. As Pn. Foziah walked in and apologized to us for being late, we were showed some audio files as well as video files done by our seniors. Indeed, there were great works showed up there on the screen and I was really touched by the second video that shows the tastes of life such as love, anger, happiness and sadness.
We should not be having problem with this task as we have done similar one in our technology course when we were required to make a video clip using windows movie maker. We have chosen the theme ' 4 years of adventure in KL' that will picture our walks all the way when we 1st stepped into KL soil. With limited photos that we're still keeping with us, hopefully we can make wonders out of it. Gambateh !

Audio editing task

Audio editing tutorials:

1. Firstly, type in the keyword ‘audacity’ in the Google search toolbar to download the software.
2. After installing Audacity, launch it and click ‘project’ on the toolbar and click ‘import project’.
3. Select whichever song available in your hard disk you wish to edit. Remember that song files ripped from CD cannot be edited.
4. As I wanted to cut out the chorus part of the song to be set as my ringing tone, I simply clicked and dragged whichever part I didn’t want, and clicked ‘cut’ on the third row of the toolbar which has the icon of scissors.
5. After that, click ‘file’ and ‘export as MP3’. Audacity will require you to download ‘LAME MP3 encoder’ in order to encode the file into mp3 format.
6. Search again ‘LAME MP3 encoder’ in Google search bar and download it.
7. Locate the ‘lame_enc.dll’ file and click ‘ok’.
8. Now, your edited mp3 file is ready to be played.

Original file: http://www.4shared.com/file/57985312/94fb690/Leona_Lewis_-_Bleeding_Love.html

Edited file:
http://www.4shared.com/file/57984728/7d02c3f4/bleeding_love_Ed.html

5th August 2008

Time flies indeed, we have moved into week 5 of this semester. For today, we were formed into 6 groups where each group was assigned a topic by the lecturer and I was so unfortunately called to be the presenter of the topic "Making language exercises into real exchanges". Luckily this topic wasn't so hard to understand and within minutes, we were well prepared with our power point presentation thanks to the techno-savvy Zarne. Here is the link to our production: http://www.4shared.com/file/57861504/6b4a4c5/Making_Language_Exercise_Into_Real_Exchanges.html
In fact, all the topics presented were able to be cope with and we moved on to the lesson of the day right after that- audio editing. I have yet to read the notes on audio editing but I have somehow done some simple one like cutting short a song file. Hopefully this will not be a big deal for me and friends, remember to upload your link to ADEC and tutorial to the lecturer's email by 12am, Sunday, 10th August 2008.