showroom in Whitefish, Montana!
Thank you for giving us some sweet footage for my amateur film career.
Wait, is there such a thing as an "amateur career"??
I'm pretty sure my career opportunities in film production are limited, but I had fun making this! I like playing around with Windows Movie Maker. I will admit that the older version of Movie Maker was way more user friendly, but the updated version is still cool. It is making me wonder where all my films are from high school Graphic Arts class and Film Writing class? Movie Maker really sucked up quite a bit of my homework time (who needs homework?)- the only issue that I came across was copyright infringement for the songs I used.
Now I don't have to worry about that because my Computer Skills for Teaching (or whatever it was called) showed me www.freesound.org. There are millions of recorded sounds and sound effects that belong to the Creative Commons license, so amateurs like me can use them in short films or what not. The only downfall is the lack of actual full-length songs. Mostly there are just sound clips or recordings that are a little scrappy to use for a movie or presentation. But there are some pretty cool scraps on there- I found a Brazilian street festival sound clip that has awesome street band music recorded live from an actual Brazilian street festival. There are also really cool nature tracks- like thunder or early summer meadow noises. This would be an excellent way to compile a "relaxation mix" for your iPod because the files can be converted to MP3s very easily. Trust me, because I'm not very computer savvy and I picked it up in a snap! The coolest sound I've heard on FreeSound.org was this guitar riff played with the microphone pointed at the window, where rain was tumbling down outside. I can't find it just this second, but if anyone wants to hear it, I'll dig it up and post it, just let me know!
Questions? Comments? Ideas? I think I'm going to make "A Few Friday Fun Facts" a weekly affair, so keep your eyes open for that coming up in a few days!
*Happy Tuesday!
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