Thursday, February 21, 2013

In computer science, we completed the Video Game Trailer project. For this project, we designed trailers for the games we made. We used Animoto to do so. Animoto is a tool which allows you to create slideshows with photos and short clips of our games. In addition, we were able to add captions and choose music and themes to make it more interesting. Animoto was a very useful tool. It was simple and easy to understand. Animoto also was a great way to organize the pictures, videos, and text to create a slideshow. I was easily able to change or add more of those three things. In addition, I felt like it met my needs very well. It had all the tools to organize a slide show. However, there were a few challenges. The slideshow only allowed people to add a certain amount of text. It only let users add one picture per slide. It would be helpful to be able to resize the photos and add more text. But despite the disadvantages, I felt that Animoto was useful, organized, and met most of my needs well. It would be great for making presentations in other classes. To improve my trailer, I would add some video clips. There were pictures of the game, but it would be helpful to add a video as well.