"Phew, doesn't that just suck the eyes out of your head."

The title is self-explanatory. This is what i've had to put up with for the last few days. As Media Center Interns, we can take advantage of lynda.com, a website that allows you to access tutorials for various applications, such as Final Cut, Photoshop and et cetera. I've decided to learn all about LiveType, an application in which you create animated title sequences for video projects. Now, don't get me wrong, the application ranks pretty high on the useful scale. The tutorial, on the other hand, is a little on the creepy side.

First off, the voice in the tutorial is an exact replica of the voice from the movie Phone Booth. And by that, I mean the voice that threatens to kill the protagonist while he is stuck at the phone booth. It's a little creepy to say the least. Not only that, but he tries to liven things up by making jokes every two seconds that are not only not funny, but are borderline creepy. When demonstrating a new feature, he said something along the lines of "Now my children, I know this is really cool but let's try to slow our heart rates down and not get too excited." Self-explanatory. Did I mention that this tutorial was 3 and a half hours?

All creepiness aside, this tutorial is rather helpful. I've pretty much got the basics of LiveType down, which may certainly come in handy in the future.

This week, we also made 5-minute, unedited movies in groups. Camille, Haelin and I took on an abstract perspective and filmed random things around the Media Center. The video that everyone sees before they die from the movie The Ring was our inspiration. because it, too, had shots of random things that hinted to one big thing. Our film was pretty glorious. Not gonna lie.

Veronica