Behind the Scenes of Cat Caregiving

Well I am finally all done with my multimedia project. My topic was learning something new: cat care giving. Initially I went through all my pictures of my two cats and compiled them. I then sat down and tried writing my narrative. I must admit this was more tough than I imagined it to be. I wanted to start off with something catchy and that's when I remembered an Oprah special she claimed she had a secret, that she was a mom. It caught my attention because I didn't know Oprah had kids, but when you actually watched the episode you realize she is a mom to her dog Sophie. So I thought that was great catchy beginning and I adapted that for my introduction. It was fairly easy to come up with the basic background of how I came to be a mom and so I wrote that first because I felt audiences need to know where my story started before I talked about my learning experience. I then came to the tricky part of telling my story of my learning experience of raising two male cats. I wanted it to be fun and entertaining, yet show that it is a learning experience, although informal. I also wanted to use some of Gee's terms because I felt they could explain some of my aspects of my project well. Once the narrative was complete I went back through it and made various changes so it was well balanced with interesting topics and learning experiences. The next thing was to record my voice so I set up a gabcast account and recorded my voice. however, I could never figure out how to download the audio to my computer so I ended up going to BestBuy and purchasing a microphone. I must have spent three hours at least trying to save it to my computer from gabcast, but never ended up being able to. Once the narration was record I had the task of timing my narrative with my pictures. This took me days. I had to search for more pictures and I knew I wanted to add fun clip art to help tell my story. I then tried searching on podcast for songs and like Mr. Kittle I spent over an hour listening to various songs. With no luck I decided no music for me. This project was fun, but definitely a labor of love. I strategically chose certain Gee topics to use in my project that didn't sound too technical so that if other people who have not read his book would understand his principles through my project. I hope it works! Well after listening to all that has gone into my multimedia project I hope it explains the purpose of why I used different things in my work and how it all came together. When I watch my video I see all the hours I spent rerecording my voice so my tone in synced with my pictures, or how the pictures are specially ordered and transition at certain places in my narrative, or how I specifically chose certain vocabulary from Gee to work in my project. In the end, I feel like this project turned out well and I am proud of all my dedicated work I put into the finished product. I just hope others now understand what this project truly entails.