"The Cape House" FINAL

At first, I was extremely stressed out by this assignment. I felt very worried about the time line and I was concerned that with my other classes I would not be able to gather enough pictures and record my voice in enough time. It turned out to be one of my favorite assignments. Once I got going on this project it went rather smoothly. I choose to do this project on my Cape Cod cottage in Provence Town, MA. I choose this to base my project on because I think it is important for everyone to take time out of their daily hassles and take a break to really take life in. We all need to be a little more appreciative of life and the beauty surrounding us. The Cape cottage is just this for me and my family and I really enjoyed gathering photos from previous years at the Cape. It was fun for me too look back and remember what I was like then, the things I was interested in or even the drama going on in my life at the time. It's really ironic how fast we all grow up and this was something that struck me rather hard while doing this project. The slide show came together smoothly and I recorded my voice easily. Although I did have to re-read and re-record my voice reading my essay over a few more times than I would have liked to have to have done, but I'm a perfectionist and I really wanted my voice to come out well. Plus, it took me a few times to get used to recording myself. In class I was told to re-record my voice and talk slower. I am a fast talker, I've always been that way. However, I am always willing to change especially when it comes to becoming more professional. I re-recorded my voice and tried to cut down specific parts of the narrative but, I found that I could not slow myself down no matter how much I tried. This came as a surprise to me because when I try to change something I am usually successful in doing so. I did not change the recording on my sound slide because every time I tried to re-record it I would either mess up the words or would somehow manage to speak faster. I like how my sound slide came out and I feel that compared to the other recordings I could not get the narrative to be much better. Although I have taken speech class I have never had my fast paced talking be brought to my attention. Now that it has been pointed out I am trying to make the adjustments in order to be more professional because what I have to say is important. If I am talking to0 fast people can't pick up on what important things I am saying. Therefore, I want to try and continue to slow my speech down. However, I could not get this recording to come out much better regardless of my many, many attempts. Other than that the project came together very quickly. Once I had all the pieces I saved them and added them along with my song files I made in Audacity to the Soundslides program. I then edited the file names, credits and captions at which point I saved and exported the project and then launched and imported my project onto Filezilla. Soon enough, I was done! I can't believe how much I learned this year about these programs and what really surprised me is how much I learned about myself along the way. I wouldn't expect to do so from only a class but by choosing topics that interest me and pushing through my problems I really learned a lot about myself, Mac's and the various software we used throughout the year. This project exceeded my expectations and I am very proud of my work.

The project is embedded above.
If you wish to open it in a new page click the link below for my final presentation.
"The Cape House" By: Anna McDavitt
Enjoy!