Finally, the finished product,
Due to my illness at the beginning of the project, I was absent from forming groups. As a result of this I was formed into a group at the tutorial of week 7. However, after discussing our ideas and making a quick plan to execute the following week, two of the three other group members were absent when we had planned to film. In an unexpected turn of events I, and the remaining group member (Bryan) was put into a group with two others that had missed the previous two weeks. Ultimately we quickly filmed the project and had it finalised. As we began progression we hit an obstacle early. The phone that we had dedicated to filming the project went flat of battery, however, thanks to the ever increasing market share of Apple's iPhone 4 we were not in short supply. We then continued to film the remainder of the project. When we were ready to upload the project to my laptop that I had brought in, loaded with iMovie, we had some trouble transferring the footage. After restarting the computer and the phone, it decided to connect, and we were making progress once more. another problem that we hit, which was more annoying than obstructive, was iMovie being glitchy. This was predominantly due to my HDD being overloaded with excess data, slowing the machine right down. To overcome this I simply deleted some unnecessary files, of which barely made a difference, and just coped with the slow system. Fortunately, I was able to provide charger for the battery for the laptop before it too went flat. Once the editing was complete, I simply used an 'in-app-link' that allowed iMovie to upload the project straight to you tube, however this is where we hit another hurdle. I had forgotten my password, as I had not been required to sign in for years. After some futile attempts at logging in, I eventually came to the decision to just create a whole new account, it simply required a new user name and email address. An unexpected message appeared at the conclusion of the upload from youtube, warning us of a potential copyright infringement. Youtube stated that some elements of the project, the sound recording, may belong to Kontor New Media. Through some light research I discovered that this entity has been responsible for thousands of copyright infringement claims in the past, some for videos only containing natural background sounds from the cameras microphone. Through the forums it is evident that they are a large online media company that provides background sounds ideal for movies and songs. I was unable to find what content they had claimed on, however I believe that apple's iLife package purchases sound effects from the company. Although I was greeted with this copyright message, youtube informed me that the film will still be available for public viewing, however it may be banned from some countries. Just when I thought the process was complete it seemed that youtube was having difficulties recognising that my video had been uploaded. After eating hours for the video to appear in the search results, the only method for finding the video that is available to embed it in a blog, it still did not appear. After searching the forums and trying another upload, I discovered that youtube simply did not update their search database for days sometimes. Now it was a waiting game. Finally, after two days, the video showed up in the search results.
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