Journal 3

Mamma Mia Tickets

After I was finished with the Sister Act Musical Video, and Jmac was being the principle, he assigned me to organize the tickets for the next upcoming musical, Mamma Mia. While he was explaining everything to me, I missed a step and accidentally started putting only 4 tickets in the envelopes instead of 4 per day. I quickly fixed that step when Jmac pointed out my mistake. Before making the mistake I started to write all the names down on the envelope first. I had a system where I would do a dash by the peoples name to make sure I wouldn't miss anyone or miss spell their name, but I did on a person, twice, but I noticed it and fixed my mistake by being extra careful writing. I liked this little project as it was fun little activity to do for the musical as I stepped down for backstage crew.

Journal 2

Sister Act Video

I made a few missteps when editing the Sister Act musical, but instead of immediately plunging in, I first created a strategy of what to tackle first. The first thing I did was watch every episode of every show to see how the audio, brightness, and background static were during recording. Throughout the process, I took notes on which recording was the most challenging to work with, Then scratched that one footage out to prevent myself from repeatedly returning back to it. After seeing each musical, I went and began the editing process. I made the decision to add audio from a different tape over the recording with the better footage after seeing that not all scenes were completely clear when editing. I achieved this by paying close attention to the video and lining up the sound waves precisely, making sure there were no off-center elements. Another problem I had was that some sequences had staticky sound effects. Because I couldn't locate a better video for that act, I began looking for a solution. I looked through the settings and discovered that I could use an equaliser to remove the static entirely. Following that previous dilemma, I made the decision to have all of the graduating actors appear in the musical video first. The only problem was that I didn't know all of them, so I had to talk to Jmac about it, and he (together with Julie) assisted me in resolving my preceding problem. I really loved working on this project, even though I was a little hesitant to start since I didn't think I could do it well. Nevertheless, I believe that this jump has given me a little more confidence.

Journal 1

Mamma Mia mp3 songs

During my first project, Jmac gave me a 2 hour clip of all the Mamma Mia songs clumped together, I had to clip each sing and save them separately into different mp3 files on a USB. While the file was uploading onto audacity, I should've took note on how long this giant file was taking so the future problem wouldn't have happened, whiloe the file was uploading i made a file on the USB to put all the seprate songs into.The first problem I ran into was connecting my airpods to my audacity's app. I've always connected my airpods to my computer but for some reason I couldn't get for them to connect to audacity. I tried googling it buy nothing came up, until I looked at the "output audio", after that it was 2 clicks and they were connected. After that problem was fixed, i highlighted the first song and clicked "export into an mp3", while the file was uploading it was taking a while for a 30 second audio to convert. I didn't notice my mistake until Jmac pointed it out how I only got 2 songs finished within 15 minutes. All I had to do was to click " exported selected audio" and after that I finished 5 songs in 5 minutes.