How is your life as a university student?

During the holiday we were assigned another task to do. This task was some kind of video editing too, but we were to come out with a video on a particular theme. Since this task was due in the holiday, we gave priority to the So You Think You Can Dance first before the holiday. However I found it quite difficult to work during the holiday and keep in touch with my partner as my home in hometown has no internet. Everyday I had to carry my laptop to the cafe and order a drink in order to use the wireless internet connection there. After a lot of hard work, we managed to create our own video to be uploaded onto Youtube.

From this task, I learned how to create video based on a single theme. The theme that we had chosen is "student life". I managed to follow closely the theme, from the comments given by our friends, the content of the video was closely related to our lives as a student in university. And I personally feel that it reflected the life of a university students to certain extent. Life as a university student is sometimes tiring yet fun.

Even though video editing is not really a new thing to me, but this was the first time that I used Cyberlink Power Director. I was very happy to explore the software, as the further I go along with the software, the more I found it handy to me. Compared to Windows Movie Maker that I used to use and know better, Cyberlink PowerDirector enabled me to create more interesting videos in terms of varieties of animations and titles. Windows Movie Maker is kind of a basic one, as it contains only the necessary features in video editing. On the other hand, in Power Director, things are made much easier, for instance, if I need to use a certain part of a video clip, i only need to look at the time, key in the time line, and the intended part would be extracted. Well, this is only one of the examples. There are a lot more that I have learned about this software.

After the video task, what followed was the e-book task. Today we were shown a few examples of e-book in the class by Puan Foziah. Initially I got all freaked out when I heard that we were to create an e-book. All that was on my mind was the kind of sophisticated e-books with great animations and stuffs like that. I was very afraid that I might not be able to make it.

However, after looking at the examples given, I got all relieved as there was nothing new other than creating PowerPoint slide show! The only thing new here is that instead of the theoretical slide show, now we are to do slide show on story. Looking at the example, I roughly know what is required in the e-book. I hope I will have fun doing the e-book!