While playing the Uncle Who Works for Nintendo I felt like, despite having options of things to do, that I didn’t really have any other path besides the one they had planned out for you. It also seemed like all of my options for things to do didn’t affect the outcome very much. I realized pretty early on that a lot of the excess options would lead you to a little bit extra text, but all it did was go in depth on the background of the characters then put you straight back where you were before. It seemed like all it did was inform the player, but not change how things progressed in the game.

The only choices that seemed to particularly mean anything where whether you press your friend for information about his uncle and what you do when the uncle arrives. Even then, pressing your friend for information only seems to make him mildly annoyed with you temporarily and back to normal when it returns to the “hub” where you’re just sitting there while your friend is playing games.

The game incorporates images by having a background image that shows the setting where you currently are. For example, when you are in the friend’s living room the background image is of a room with a fireplace, a deer head on a plaque, and pictures (presumably of the family). Other places were the kitchen, the bathroom, the dinner table, and arriving at the house. There were occasions where the image was mostly just weird black and white shapes and they corresponded with more mysterious parts of the story like when you were being hunted by the uncle.

Sounds weren’t really used that much, mostly only for when the time changed while watching the friend play his games.

My tutorial is for making a sound clip seem like it starts in one ear, moves into both, then out the other. It’s useful to make things sound like they’re passing by you.

Step 1:

To start, you pick the audio clip that you want to apply this effect to. You can tell that I’ve already applied the effect to this clip because the top and bottom (left and right ears respectively) have different visuals.

Step 2:

Next you click the down arrow next to the name of the track that you’re working with. You select the “Split Stereo Track” option. This splits the top and bottom so that you can work them separately.

Step 3:

Select whichever side you want the sound to begin in. In my case, I picked the left ear (top track). Once it’s selected, you add the “Fade Out” effect to it. This makes it so that, throughout the clip, it gets quieter. But since you’ve split the left and right ears, it means that only this one will fade out.

Step 4:

After that, you select the other track and apply the “Fade In” effect to it. This gives the illusion of the sound not being in this ear at the beginning of the clip, but growing louder the whole time.

Step 5:

The last step is to rejoin the tracks. You do this by going into the drop down menu next to the top track and clicking “Make Stereo Track”. This makes it so you can no longer edit each track individually, and you can edit them as one. Rejoining them will make your life easier because you can move them precisely together, adjust the volume level of the clip uniformly, or do anything else you need without having to replicate it on the other half of the track.

Today while I was working on homework in my room with a couple friends, I realized how weird the sounds of the room were. There were four of us, all doing different homework assignments. Each one of us was frustrated because none of us knew how to solve the problems we were working on.

This is the scene that I’m imagining my sound appearing in, and the sound that inspired me to do this scene was of the vent. When many people are all intensely focused on what they’re doing, they aren’t talking or moving around very much. The only sounds in the room were of the vents blowing, the blinds moving from the vents, pencils scratching paper, and the occasional sigh.

The mood of the room is very similar to the sounds. The room and sounds are both subdued: quiet, focused, and slightly sad. Anyone who walks into this room would feel compelled to stay silent, and most people wouldn’t stick around long after wandering in.

Every once in a while, another sound can be heard from outside the room. Someone in another room laughing or cheering or shouting to a friend. The distant sounds only serve to subdue the mood in the study room even more. It frustrates everyone there; they know that everyone else around them are enjoying their afternoon, relaxing in the closing hours of their weekend. But none of them are making progress and are unable to help one another.

Eventually the soundscape changes radically. Books and laptops closing, notebooks and papers being shoved into backpacks, backpacks being zipped up and put on, and finally feet shuffling dejectedly out of the room. With these sounds comes a stop to the others, no more pencils scratching and no more sighing. The afternoon’s work is finally done.

At first I had a hard time trying to decide what I wanted to do for my video project, so I started just looking up things that I am interested in on a creative commons archive. One of those things is running, so I was looking at videos of people running races at the Olympics and world championships. But as I was scrolling through the search results, there was a video of Canadian geese running around. During the time working on our projects in class, I just messed around with alternating between a scene of a person running and a scene of a goose running. Later on, I realized that it might be cool to compare how different animals run.

My idea for my video is to gather clips of all sorts of different animals moving. It’ll have a large range of scenes including humans, small four-legged animals (like dogs or cats), larger animals running (horses, giraffes, etc.), birds flying, and other cool things that I find. I may or may not include aquatic animals, it depends on how much source material I can find.

To make it more interesting, I am going to try to make it so each clip is a similar running or movement style to the scenes right before and after. For example, I may have a section where there is a cat running followed by a flying squirrel running on a branch and jumping off it. The gliding of the flying squirrel can serve to transition from four legged animals to birds.

It may be hard to find similarities between all of the different animals that I use. One of those that would be hard to do would be snakes slithering along the ground. To get around this, I may just have a section at the end that is a compilation of weirder styles of movement.

My video is a remix of speeches that Barrack Obama has given throughout his years as president. The clips are all pieced together to make it so Obama is “singing” the lyrics to the original Pokemon Theme song. The person who made it went through a large number of speeches and looked for the individual words that make up the lyrics of the song. He then cut out those words and put them together over an instrumental version of the theme song.

This media remix is interesting because it has two different sources. One source is a beloved and memorable TV show’s theme; the other is speeches given by Obama. All of the lyrics from the original song are included in the remix, even surprisingly the word “Pokemon” which was achieved by stringing parts of other words together. However most parts of the speeches were not included because there was only a couple words from each speech needed. Despite how easy it would have been, the author did not use the same clips over and over for the same words. He even made the word “Pokemon” a couple different ways.

When deciding if this remix is intended for a different audience than the original, there’s a couple things you need to consider. The first, and most important, being that this theme was only used on the show in its first season, which was a little less than 20 years ago. The audience for the original theme was children who are interested in the Pokemon games, but all of the kids who loved to watch this show are young adults now. Obama’s speeches are generally intended for the entirety of the country, but mostly for adults. The target audience of this remix would seem to be young adults, as those are the people who would be aware of Obama’s speeches and also familiar with the Pokemon theme song, so the target audience has changed significantly.