Unruly sentience
Channel: Mira Vogel
Date: 2013-02-27

This #edcmooc assignment created with Camtasia, GIMP and Audacity, with fond thanks to PhotoPin for the CreativeCommons images and FreeSound for all the voices other than my own. If you have trouble hearing, turn on captions in the video player.

This was a welcome opportunity - I'm not nearly as good at multimedia authoring as I think I should be. If I had my time again, I'd like to find a background for the canvas, find a less comically-posed pig picture, fade out the sound at the end, make it clearer who was talking to whom, make it more visually interesting in general, and find out why my computer's mic made my voice sound so hollow. I'd also try to meet the criterion of saying something particular about digital education. To be honest, this brought out the worst in me - as well as spending the majority of the time trying to separate robot and pig from their backgrounds and sort out the drop shadows to my satisfaction (confounded in the time I had - my cursed selections had a halo of background colour), the piece became quite emotionally dark without my really noticing until it was uploaded... Still, making it was a good experience. Watching it, only you can say.

Dedicated to Pete, for his birthday.