New Course Project SCIE6662S-2

For my most recent project given to me by Walden University I decided to look over the project in terms of the technology that I would need to produce a multimedia presentation.  I think in order to do this I need to be able to merge into one presentation video, music, pictures, slides, words, and voice.  With this as a starting point I looked at Microsoft Movie Maker first to see if all of these things would be easily done there.  Although it is relatively easy to add film, voice, and pictures to Movie Maker it is a little more difficult to add a finished slide show with voice. 

I decided that it would be better to have presentation software that allows me to keep all of the formats inside it and play what I want in the order of my story board.  The program that I am leaning toward is Prezi (www.prezi.com), a non-linear presentation software program that allows me to develop all of the parts, group them, and play them in my selected order with appropriate transitions.  Keeping this software as my base I would then need to use a slideshow format, pictures, video, voice, and music.  I will be using PowerPoint for the slideshow and MovieMaker for the video.  I will be using .bmp formats for my pictures so it will be able to be incorporated into all of these programs as well as .wav files for the sound and music.  I can make my voice recordings through Sound Recorder.

I selected all of my program types for ease of use and compatibility with each other.  They all seem to work relatively seamlessly with each other.  This is important since I remember trying to use a PowerPoint in my blog page a few classes back and found that it was not supported by blogspot (www.blogspot.com) so I needed to convert it using Slideshare (www.slideshare.net).  This complicated what should have been an easy thing to do and took time learning a new program just to achieve somewhat unsatisfactory results (one of my blog group members could not view the slideshow).  Microsoft programs come with a good degree of support and most people have these programs preinstalled on their computers.  This allows a person to use help, have it on multiple computers, and you do not have to rely on an internet connection until you are building the parts as a storyboard to share.  This is important here in Florida since there are often power outages in the summer time and maybe a hurricane or two.  It should keep my frustration level down a little.