Pre Video Assignment: Waltz

 An example of a good multimedia presentation that I found shows the process of an artist creating Anasazi style pottery. I thought this video was so intriguing because it had such visually interesting camera shots, beautiful natural sound, and it showed a process from beginning to end. The video followed a woman creating bowls and pitchers from clay that she harvested herself, and although there was no voiceover or interview, I couldn't look away because the videos, the natural sounds, and the music that the filmmaker chose told the story. The filmmaker had a wide variety of different camera shots, detail shots of the pottery itself, the artist painting designs onto the pottery pieces, or washing them in the stream, as well as medium shots of her harvesting the clay, or starting a fire, and finally overview shots of the beautiful wildlife of southern Utah. I thought that the natural sounds like the sound of the creek, the artist scraping the clay with a rock, and blowing into the fire made the video so memorable and interesting. Overall, it was extremely unique and fascinating.

An example of a bad multimedia presentation that I found, seems to be some sort of school project. Although the project was well intentioned, it seemed to be just a collection of screenshots of google earth with a voiceover on top. The audio quality was not great, and you could hear other sounds coming from the microphone. The images that were used were often blurry or seemed to be irrelevant to the project. The project certainly isn't bad and I could tell that it was a personal topic, but it seemed a little unoriginal or boring.