When we were told to come up with a topic to research, I first chose how children’s programming changed over the years but after a few days of fruitless research, I decided to completely change my topic. Because one, I wasn’t interested in the topic I picked and two I recently competed in the game Bloodborne and was inspired by its music. So I decided to base my topic around that and eventually I landed on a music role in video games. I do feel my topic is a bit light compared to my colleagues but I didn’t want to do a heavy topic because researching something is just depressing and I feel like it is kind of nice to bring attention to the music in games.     

 

 Before I started this project I wasn’t sure at all what I was going to do for it. At first, i wanted to do a PowerPoint because it was simple, easy, and to the point but I concluded that it made no sense for my topic. So then I had the idea to make a short video essay much like the video I used in my research because my topic is basic of the music in games so I have to use the video to showcase the music and explain how the music is used. But then came to figure out the plan for a video which was a bit of an issue but in due time I figured out how to layout the video. I want to try my best to maintain the viewer’s attention so I made a video around a family guy clip to keep everything somewhat entertaining. Planning the video made me realize that this genre is really good for my topic because I can present everything to the viewer in a neat package. 

 

While working on this project a problem quickly emerged, this is my first video ever editing and I had no idea how to edit. So I had to stumble my way through the editing software I was using and research and ask my friends for help on how to download videos and sync my voice with the video. Soon I was able to create a short flow and understand how to use the software but just when I thought I figured everything out and finish the video I could not for the life of me figure out how to upload the video from the software. But after a while, I did figure it out but it to too long and it would make me end up finishing everything late and deciding last minute to write out a transcript for closed captioning for the video because there were points where my mic bugged out or the music was too loud and you could hear my voice didn’t help my cause either. 

 

At first, I wanted to make a longer video taking bout 4 different types of games like Elden ring, bloodborne, undertale, and red dead, and the two ways adaptive music is used in those games but I soon realized after seeing my colleague work and remembering that I don’t that kind of time to make a 15-minute video. Looking back I think it was a good idea to keep the video short because I feel like with my kind of topic I think the video will just end up dragging on and putting everyone who watches it to sleep and if I’m being honest with myself the video will just me gushing about the music in games that I’ve played. But still, I had a fun time doing this project and because of this project I was able to get a grasp on video editing, I feel like if I were to do this project over again I would be able to do it faster and make something better than this video.