Tuesday, May 31, 2005

And it was mediocre.

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James- We need a warcry.

Mimmi- You're tearing me into too many different directions..!

satan665- Actually, $45. I know how you feel.

Shin- What if they do cavity searches?

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So today I had a friend come over to finish all of this invention project stuff. We still had to do a commercial, which I wanted to just do with a regular camera, but he intended on doing it digitally. I figured that would be too much of a pain (as I only have Windows Movie Maker and I never used it before), but it turned out nicely.

Basically, our big thing is that our product can hold "10,000 novels." That's obviously a BS statement, since I didn't bother doing any sort of research with this, but nobody cares anyway.

So we start off with a shot of my friend with a ton of books on his lap- a pile of encyclopedia volumes and other sorts of books that reach over his head.

Then, in true Apple fashion, we have a bright purple background and the iPod font go on about how great our thing is. Actually, watching it over again, it's more reminiscient of Adult Swim, when you consider how everything's worded. It might be a tad too casual.

Anyway, we wanted to use my digital camera to throw in a couple of moving shots, but that didn't happen because Windows Movie Maker is a bitch and doesn't support .MOV files.

..It's .MOV. MOVIE. Stupid Microsoft.

So we stuck with still images when they were supposed to be moving. It's kind of cheap-looking in that way. Then we threw the Apple logo in at the end.

After that, we threw in a 30-second clip of "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies, which I felt was kind of appropriate for this product. "Where is my mind?" "In the iTome! :D"

It turns out that the program saves things as .MSWMM format, which is totally stupid, but we found a way to save it as .WMV. Then we burned it to a disk at an awful resolution when played fullscreen. I don't know how to fix that.

And then the teacher insists that we make a jingle. A jingle. Our project's a little too non-amateur for that.

..At least, I hope so. <_<

While we were doing all of this, my dog was barking nonstop at something outside. I looked outside briefly and thought he was just barking at the new neighbors, and went back to my work. But my mom went outside for something, and saw a dog with dirty, matted white hair on our driveway. It trotted up to her, and plopped down by the front door. We got it food and water.

The interesting thing about this is that three years ago, before we got our current dog, a very small puppy just like this one came up to our door. Like the one we found today, it had matted white curly fur. It had the same face, and the same body structure.

I swear to God that this has to be the same dog from three years ago, and that somehow it remembered us when we gave it food last time. It came back here searching for some sanctuary.

This is why I have dubbed it either Victor or Hugo, in honor of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

It's still in our backyard.. I don't know if we're keeping it or not. It's a sweet little dog, but I don't know how our other pets would react. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
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