Com 1112-04

For this blog post, I really worked to add more images to fit the Still Image Video requirements and really add animation to make it more interesting to watch. I really utilized the keyframe feature to scale and position images. For images that were not scaled for the video, I added a background and used Gaussian blur to blur the visible edges. I removed the old transition effects that I had because they seemed "too predictable". I did not use text to subtitle the video but instead tried to use images that had the main ideas embedded in the image. I also used several political cartoons that can be understood by reading only.

Introduction This audio story is about the different possible answers to a long-standing question: can money truly make you happy? I tried to incorporate images that accurately depict what the audio story is telling, while also making it appealing to watch. Animation I used several images for the different audio clips to give the viewer something to watch. I used a Windows machine for this post, so I had trouble animating like in class. I could not find the "add keyframe" feature to resize or reposition the images I was bringing into the video. I read several articles on how to toggle this on/off in the toolbar but still was unsuccessful. To compensate for this, I used the effect and effect control panels to animate the images the best I could. I resized most of the images I found to fit the screen and used the blurring technique to add a background on images that could not be stretched all the way. I used the color key effect to remove the background on the money bags ...

Can Money Buy Happiness? Introduction For most of your life, you have heard the phrase "money cannot buy your happiness". Mostly, it was a way to pacify a begging child, but this value has slowly been engrained into society. I decided to explore this topic because on the surface it seems like an easy question to answer, but there are different ways to answer the question.  Interviews I conducted three interviews with three people who had different perspectives on the topic. Bianca Bullock, a journalism major at HPU, believes that this prinicple is generational. She states how older generations like Baby Boomers and Traditionalists typically worked from their early teens up until they retired in their sixties or seventies. She compared this to Millenials and Generation Z members taking more time away from work and school to enjoy their lives as they are living them. She believed that people used to center their lives around working to make money and working. ...

Characters & Experts My expert for my audio story will be Vonda Whitted, a former commercial and private bank teller, social worker, and current bookkeeper for a public elementary school. Her entire professional career has revolved around money. In her interview, she speaks about working in private banking and helping clients make important purchases. She contrasts this with her work in Social Services working to provide those in need with appropriate service (EBT, WIC, etc). She currently works in an elementary school where she makes purchases for school supplies and trips for the students. With such a diverse background in finance, she was a good person to interview because she would have different perspectives on money. My original interview is with my roommate Bianca Bullock. She was a good person to interview because she comes from a town with such a diverse financial environment and attends a college very different than her hometown. She will have different perspectives ...

Can Money Buy Happiness? I decided to do this topic because it is such a common question people ask, but there is no clear answer. At first, my roommate and I both believed that money cannot buy happiness. But after we began talking we realized that we have been conditioned to believe that work is the most important thing in life. Based on how our society is set up for you to attend school for nearly twenty years and then work for the next forty years and then you can finally retire and do the things you've always wanted to do. Although as a society we agree that money is not everything, the basis of the American Dream is work hard and play later. Towards the end of our conversation we began to compare older generations to Millenials and Generation Z who are more likely to take gap years and quit their jobs to follow their dreams and passions. The conclusion that we eventually came to was that money does not buy your happiness, but it definitely makes life more fulfilling.  ...

Hi, I'm Jordyn Whitted and I am a sophomore at HPU. I am a Strategic Communications major  with a marketing minor. One day I hope to work on an advertising team for a large company (maybe Google!). I am originally from Mebane, NC.