{"id":1360,"date":"2013-07-02T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2013-07-29T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:09:36","slug":"talkytina_production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/","title":{"rendered":"Talky Tina &#8211; Sweet as Tupelo Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producing the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU\">DS106&#8217;s Sweet Talky Tina<\/a> video was a labor of love as it presented many challenges due to the number of different media from several sources that had to be combined and sometimes created: image stills, GIFs, YouTube video and audio. And writing up this blog entry documenting the process turned out to take as much work and time as the video itself!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijXdJUkqUrU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;<\/strong><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> <\/strong><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Story Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before I launch into my production notes, let me add\u00a0some Talky Tina context for those of you not participating in DS106, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/\">digital storytelling open online course at University Mary Washington<\/a> in Virginia. \u00a0This is\u00a0<a title=\"Who is Talky Tina? &amp; Why was she created?\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/my-fair-tina\/\">an excerpt taken<\/a>\u00a0from the <a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/\">@iamTalkyTina blog<\/a> written by her &#8220;handler&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The task was to take a misunderstood, outcast, marginalized character and transform her into a more powerful, independent, and self-managed member of the\u00a0<strong>ds106<\/strong>\u00a0community&#8230;\u00a0to rehabilitate a character out of The Twilight Zone, such that the character would be accepted as one of the\u00a0<strong>ds106<\/strong>\u00a0own.<\/p>\n<p>It was not easy work. The character selected, <em>[<a title=\"Wikipedia article discussing the TZ episode, &quot;Living Doll&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Living_Doll_(The_Twilight_Zone)\">Talky Tina from the 1963 Twilight Zone episode &#8220;Living Doll&#8221;<\/a>]<\/em> had a lot of very negative press \u2014 often derogatory comments flowed easily off the lips of various members of the\u00a0<strong>ds106<\/strong>\u00a0crew&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1473\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1473\" data-attachment-id=\"1473\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink.gif?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;New image for Talky Tina.  80% positive can overshadow the 30% negative.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink.gif?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1473  \" alt=\"New image for Talky Tina.  80% positive can overshadow the 30% negative.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/talkytina_eyesopen_fastestwink.gif?resize=252%2C189\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New image for Talky Tina.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Eyes Wide Open!!\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/02\/eyes-wide-open\/\">We started with a new image<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 working to overlay the existing perceptions with new, friendly ones, building up a preponderance of positive digital identity \u2014 a new, Friendly identity for the 21st Century. We built up a\u00a0<a title=\"True Friends Index\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/true-friends-index\/\">network of Friends<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and Tina worked with them to gain their acceptance and trust. Yes \u2014\u00a0<a title=\"I AM @iamTalkyTina !!!\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/i-am-iamtalkytina\/\">there were still naysayers<\/a>, but we worked on a plan for them, too, and\u00a0<a title=\"The #ds106zone LoDown #34 Part 2 @iamTalkyTina Takes on All #pretenderTinas: The Rumble\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/the-ds106zone-lodown-34-part-2-iamtalkytina-takes-on-all-pretendertinas-the-rumble\/\">things culminated on the last day of the course\u00a0<\/a>, in grand style, and with great success!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>=&gt;<\/strong><strong><\/strong>Video Inspiration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for the video was the result of listening to my Pandora Classic Folk Rock station when a fun song about love from the Beatles came on &#8211; can&#8217;t remember the name right now. \u00a0The lyrics made me giggle when I thought of Talky Tina&#8217;s DS106 persona. \u00a0Then <em>Tupelo Honey<\/em> by Van Morrison began to play&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>She&#8217;s as sweet as Tupelo honey.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>She&#8217;s an angel of the first degree.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>She&#8217;s as sweet, she&#8217;s as sweet as Tupelo honey.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Just like honey baby, from the bee.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist. \u00a0A video mashup\/remix of Talky Tina as sweet as Tupelo honey had to be made.<\/p>\n<p>As is the case with most of my projects, they are iterative in nature &#8211; forever improving and incorporating new ideas as I go along. \u00a0Sometimes I am inspired by the work of others. Other times I just happen to stumble upon something that I like more.\u00a0There are two versions of the video available.\u00a0I decided to keep the <a title=\"1st DRAFT of Talky Tina video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FzYs8GnteL0\">first draft<\/a>\u00a0posted to YouTube so that I could illustrate with examples the modifications undertaken to produce the <a title=\"Final Version of Talky Tina video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU\">final version<\/a>. \u00a0Links to the actual in-video sequences are provided as needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong><\/strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\"><span id=\"inserted9011\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span id=\"inserted6017\" style=\"color: inherit;\">=&gt;INTRO &amp; OUTRO<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/ds106zonetall_crossedover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?fit=600%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,468\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?fit=600%2C468&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1402 alignleft\" alt=\"DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DS106ZoneTall_CrossedOver.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"1st DRAFT of Talky Tina video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FzYs8GnteL0\">first draft<\/a>\u00a0does not contain an intro or outro sequence. \u00a0And upon request, Talky Tina was kind enough to create a special title sequence GIF,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/starring-iamtalkytina\/\">Starring @iamTalkyTina<\/a>,\u00a0that I could use in my\u00a0<a title=\"Final Version of Talky Tina video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU\">final video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the title sequence, I liked the GIF that Talky Tina had made, but the first few frames of &#8220;smack talk&#8221; directed at Jim Groom needed to be deleted. \u00a0By opening the GIF directly in Photoshop Elements 11 for the Mac I gained access to all of the original 30 image layers, and could easily delete the objectionable frames.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I noticed that the star pattern used in the GIF was less dense than the star pattern I was using in other parts of the video. \u00a0This lack of continuity didn&#8217;t sit well with me. \u00a0I tried to let it go&#8230; telling myself no one would notice&#8230;. but it just kept bugging me every time I watched it. \u00a0In the end, my &#8220;OCD&#8221; alter ego won out and I went about making the necessary image modifications.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Magic Wand tool I selected the portion of images I wanted to retain, and deleted the rest. \u00a0The remaining images fortunately did not have to be perfectly clean since they would be merged with a new black starry background that would hide the imperfections. This saved a lot of time, which I greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>When merging the selected images and text with the new background, I reduced the image opacity to 80% to give them more of an eerie feeling. \u00a0Tina&#8217;s head is a little transparent &#8211; floating out in space.\u00a0The GIF below visually illustrates the sequence of steps taken.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1411\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TalkyTinaTitleSequence.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" data-attachment-id=\"1411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/talkytinatitlesequence\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TalkyTinaTitleSequence.gif?fit=469%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"469,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TalkyTinaTitleSequence\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TalkyTinaTitleSequence.gif?fit=469%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1411 \" alt=\"Talky Tina Title Sequence Production\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TalkyTinaTitleSequence.gif?resize=328%2C305\" width=\"328\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on image if the GIF is not running<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=5m30s\">expanding &#8220;The DS106 Zone&#8221; text<\/a> was created using the zoom effect on only that specific text image. The soundtrack for both the intro and outro were pulled from the original Twilight Zone television show. \u00a0The outro was used in its full length. But the intro could only be used the first 10 seconds before Rod Serling speaks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\"><span id=\"inserted4235\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span id=\"inserted5240\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"inserted1670\" style=\"color: inherit;\">=&gt;Twilight Zone Video Mashup\/Remix<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had enjoyed and wanted to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dg4LaYfrt2s?t=35s\">scene reversing effect<\/a> that Christina Hendricks incorporated into,\u00a0<a title=\"Christina Hendricks blog entry for Tina &amp; Telly remix\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/Zgk93snw5n7D\">Tina and Telly: A story of true friends<\/a>, her video response to Brian Short&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/yj2nRvmnoKI\">Tina &amp; Erich a Love Story<\/a>.\u00a0However, using clips from those videos themselves were problematic, due to their own story editing and sub-optimal resolution. \u00a0I searched YouTube and found a short <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hSy8Ko1vSKQ\">2 min video highlights of the original episode<\/a> which had excellent resolution and enough material for me to work with in my own way.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1523\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1523\" data-attachment-id=\"1523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/talkytina_girl_crop1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png?fit=526%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"526,395\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TalkyTina_Girl\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;And her name is Talky Tina&amp;#8221;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png?fit=526%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1523 \" alt=\"&quot;And her name is Talky Tina&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png?resize=253%2C190\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Girl_Crop1.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;She&#8217;s alive Daddy and her name is Talky Tina.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My video editing software is Adobe Premiere Elements 11 for Mac and my story purpose was to show Talky Tina as only sweet and loving &#8211; especially with Erich. \u00a0To accomplish this task, I pulled the audio soundbite, &#8220;My name is Talky Tina, and I love you very much.&#8221; from the beginning of the episode when she is talking to Erich&#8217;s daughter. \u00a0I unlinked the video and audio, deleted audio portions where Talky Tina and Erich hate or threaten to kill each other, and dubbed in the love line. \u00a0I also found a segment of &#8220;silence&#8221; in the original video that I could use to cover up dialogue I had deleted but where video remained. The audio proved to be a bit trickier for Erich though. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t want there to be the dubbed foreign film effect, and have Erich mouthing words that didn&#8217;t match the audio. \u00a0To get around this I found back shots of Erich and strategically spliced in images of Tina at certain locations. [<a title=\"Editing video &amp; audio giving illusion of love\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=24s\">View example in video<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1528\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1528\" data-attachment-id=\"1528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/talkytina_erich_dress\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png?fit=526%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"526,395\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Talky Tina and Erich\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png?fit=526%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1528     \" alt=\"Talky Tina and Erich\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png?resize=238%2C178\" width=\"238\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Erich_Dress.png?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;And I love you very much.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Erich&#8217;s facial expressions and actions also had to look loving toward Talky Tina. Again, careful splicing of the right portions of video did the trick.\u00a0In one case I tried using <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dg4LaYfrt2s?t=35s\">Christina&#8217;s reversing effect<\/a> so that instead of Erich throwing Tina against the wall, it looked as if she were throwing herself toward him and he is lovingly catching her in his arms. \u00a0But the effect just didn&#8217;t look right in my video, so in the end it was deleted.\u00a0\u00a0 As you can see, Erich and Talky Tina can say and do nice things to each other through the magic of video &amp; sound editing.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span id=\"inserted449\" style=\"color: inherit;\">=&gt;GIFs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; color: #444444; font-size: 1rem;\">As I mentioned above, this project contained a number of different media. \u00a0Each of which presents its own challenges. Working with the GIFs was a big one. \u00a0When I tried inserting them directly into the video editing software, they no longer looped endlessly. \u00a0They ran once and stopped. \u00a0No problem you say&#8230; just copy and paste to make the sequence repeat&#8230; Sounds great, in theory, but my video editing software &#8220;deletes&#8221; a few beginning and ending frames in order to blend with the visual media on either side. \u00a0While this wasn&#8217;t too big of a problem for most of the GIFs&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1427\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/jinxed-by-julie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png?fit=600%2C478&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jinxed-by-Julie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png?fit=600%2C478&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1427 alignright\" alt=\"Jinxed-by-Julie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png?resize=240%2C191\" width=\"240\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Jinxed-by-Julie.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; color: #444444; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8230;for two:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/calling-all-you-pretendertinas\/\">Quick Wink Tina<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/04\/still-nice-and-wholesome-just-not-seen-that-way\/\">Tina &amp; Julie Andrews\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; this resulted in the wink and the ghostly image of Julie Andrews being cut off prematurely. \u00a0You&#8217;ll notice these irritations in the first draft\u00a0version as illustrated below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FzYs8GnteL0?t=1m05s\">Partial Wink @1:0<\/a>5<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FzYs8GnteL0?t=1m49s\">Julie Andrews @1:52<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The use of the GIFs was further complicated by the fact that\u00a0I only wanted the important event, such as Julie Andrews or the wink, to appear once, and the entire segment needed to be a specific length in order to match with the music soundtrack.\u00a0To address these issues I opened the original GIFs in Photoshop and placed the layers with the &#8220;event&#8221; in the middle of the GIF, instead of at the end. I then duplicated a few strategic layers to make the event last longer on screen and to make the entire sequence itself longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=1m13s\">Edited Full Wink<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> @1:13<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=2m00s\">Edited Julie Andrews<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> @2:00<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The long GIF sequence of <a title=\"Talky Tina at the computer watching her friends\" href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/watching-my-friends\/\">Talky Tina at the computer<\/a> needed no modification what so ever. \u00a0It was meant to play only once and was miraculously the same length as the instrumental section in the music soundtrack.\u00a0What a stroke of luck.\u00a0\u00a0[<a title=\"Talky Tina at the computer in video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=2m56s\">View in final version<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; color: #444444; font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;Image Stills: Tips &amp; Tricks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A trick I often use when mixing visual media is to capture a beginning or final frame of a video or GIF sequence. \u00a0(In Adobe Premiere Elements 11 for Mac the command is Tools =&gt; Freeze Frame ) By inserting a still image captured from the original source the image is already perfectly aligned and will aid in providing a smoother transition between the media. And as an extra bonus you can easily adjust its length on screen to provide better synchronization to your music soundtrack if desired.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1533\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" data-attachment-id=\"1533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/talkytina_webheader_opaque\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png?fit=485%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"485,421\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png?fit=485%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1533 \" alt=\"TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png?resize=192%2C166\" width=\"192\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png?resize=300%2C260&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Webheader_Opaque.png?w=485&amp;ssl=1 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reduce opacity of overlay by 80%<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Reducing the opacity of an overlay image, such as Talky Tina&#8217;s head in the intro sequence or her webpage banner text as shown to the left, allows the underlying image to remain partially visible. \u00a0This works great for title and credit text sequences as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Increasing the brightness &amp; contrast of an image, such as for the cover of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/memoirs-looking-back-on-a-life\/\">Talky Tina&#8217;s memoir<\/a>, &#8220;<em>The Stairs. They Go Both Up and Down<\/em>&#8221; helps the image to stand out and become more memorable in the video.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Adjusting an image position and zoom factor in relation to an adjoining image can make for a smoother more natural transition without the need to create a time consuming manual pan of the shot. [<a title=\"Adjusting placement &amp; zoom of images provides more natural transitions.\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=1m35s\">Watch example in video<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;Badges <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1388\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/iamtalkytinasayssorockylou22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png?fit=270%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"270,684\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png?fit=270%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1388 alignright\" alt=\"iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png?resize=162%2C410\" width=\"162\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/iamTalkyTinaSaysSoRockyLou22.png?resize=118%2C300&amp;ssl=1 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a>Talky Tina had created badges that her DS106 &#8220;True Friends&#8221; could insert into their blogs. [<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/true-friends-index\/\">Talky Tina&#8217;s True Friends Index<\/a>]\u00a0And there were a few technical hurdles that I had to overcome to include the badges in the video. \u00a0First off, the whole badge wouldn&#8217;t fit on screen and remain legible on a mobile device. I was able to get around that by cropping the top half with the picture of Talky Tina and use it to introduce the badge segment in the video. \u00a0The bottom half of the badge, including the &#8220;TalkyTina Says So&#8221; text, was then cropped and used as the badge image for each friend.<\/p>\n<p>The video includes badges of people whose media I used, and her other &#8220;Super True&#8221; friends. I think of this segment as part of the credits and acknowledgments. Amazingly there was a length of soundtrack that lent itself well to the needed seven friend badge image sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Originally I made the decision to exclude badges with GIFs. I assumed they would be too time consuming to make them work correctly and align them properly. \u00a0I had a change of heart after modifying all of the other GIFs in the project, and the GIF badge by John Johnston (who also made the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/the-two-faces-of-alan-levine\/\">CogDog\/Alan Levine-TalkyTina Dissolve<\/a>) would be included in its full glory. [<a title=\"John Johnston animated GIF badge\" href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TalkyTina_Badges_JohnJohnson_2.gif\">Click here to view<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The transitions between badges were surprisingly challenging. Fortunately, Talky Tina had used a template to create the original badges and I had used the same size and technique in Photoshop to crop them. This meant I had a supply of badge images that were the same size and shape to work with. I tried different transitions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">no transition &#8211; just a cut to the next badge<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">fade to black (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FzYs8GnteL0?t=4m6s\">as seen in draft video<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">cross dissolve<\/span><\/li>\n<li>film dissolve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">&#8230; and finally settled on the film dissolve. \u00a0With careful alignment of each badge I was able to give the effect of only the photo image gently dissolving from one badge to the next. \u00a0Toward the end of the project I was still not satisfied with the sequence. \u00a0The badges were thin and there was a lot of blank space to either side. \u00a0I considered adding vertical text, such as <em>DS106<\/em> on the left and <em>Zone<\/em> on the right, but that felt like it would be too cluttered. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t until I had the inspired idea to add the starry background and reduce the opacity to 80% that I was satisfied and could call <a title=\"Badge sequence in final video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=4m16s\">the badge section complete<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;Rockylou Productions Animated Logo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/rlp_logo_27lvs_bw-col\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?fit=1061%2C1073&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1061,1073\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?fit=625%2C632&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1438 alignleft\" alt=\"RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=5m58s\">Rockylou Productions animated logo<\/a> at the very end of the video was created by incorporating a dissolve transition between two logo images designed by Amber Lockridge. \u00a0Transitioning from b&amp;w to color with a slight increase in the size of the color graphic by 1% \u00a0is meant to give the illusion of growth and expansion, an important value statement for <a title=\"Link to Rockylou Productions main website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockylouproductions.com\/\">Rockylou Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\">audio logo for Rockylou Productions<\/a> was made with GarageBand and a simple &#8220;D&#8221; chord that I played on my 12-string guitar. \u00a0I took the original recording and added a Bright Guitar effect to the basic track. \u00a0I then duplicated the original track four times, and added dimensionality to the chord by adding a Lunar Bounce to two (panning each slightly left and right) and a Swirling Echo effect to the two remaining tracks, also panning them slightly left and right. With the addition of the Ambient &#8211; Wide Spaces effect to the master track the memorable <a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\">audio logo for Rockylou Productions<\/a> was born.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1440\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/07\/02\/talkytina_production\/rlpchord_gb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?fit=750%2C516&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,516\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RLPChord_GB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?fit=625%2C430&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1440\" alt=\"RLPChord_GB\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?resize=625%2C430\" width=\"625\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?resize=624%2C429&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; color: #444444; font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;Wrap-Up<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>I think that about does it. \u00a0This will most likely by my last DS106Zone related project, but I&#8217;m looking forward to completing many more digital storytelling projects in DS106 and with Rockylou Productions in the future. \u00a0In the wings already in the early stages of production are two challenging projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">a multi-media story using Facebook entries &amp; Storify about the uprising in Istanbul in June, 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">a video interview of Amber &amp; I talking about the creation of the Rockylou Productions logo and website banner which will be incorporating images against a green screen background. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">If you have any questions or would like to know more about the production of this project, post a comment or send me a tweet @rockylou22 and I&#8217;ll be glad to share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontplugin_fontid_11020_4365\" id=\"inserted8251\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">=&gt;Media Sources &amp; Credits<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soundtrack: <\/strong>&#8220;Tupelo Honey&#8221; by Van Morrison<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twilight Zone Video &amp; Audio Clips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hSy8Ko1vSKQ\">YouTube 2min<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Talky Tina &#8212; Living Doll &#8212; Two Minute Twilight Zone Project\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Christina Hendricks\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"Christina Hendricks blog entry for Tina &amp; Telly video remix\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/Zgk93snw5n7D\">Tumblr BLOG entry<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 | YouTube Video \u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dg4LaYfrt2s\">Tina and Telly: A story of true friends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; 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GIF TalkyTina at computer &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/watching-my-friends\/\">Watching My Friends<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=3m52s\">@03:52<\/a> &#8211; TalkyTina joins FedEx in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/real-friends-are-important\/\">Real Friends Are Important!<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=3m59s\">@03:59<\/a> &#8211; TalkyTina appears amidst the tree tops in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/06\/dont-you-forget-about-me-true-friend\/\">Don&#8217;t you forget about me.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=4m05s\">@04:05<\/a> &#8211; GIF \u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/the-two-faces-of-alan-levine\/\">The Two Faces of Alan Levine<\/a>&#8221; by John Johnston<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=4m13s\">@04:13<\/a> &#8211; Web Badge Sequence from <a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/true-friends-index\/\">TalkyTina&#8217;s True Friends Index<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=5m06s\">@05:06<\/a> &#8211; 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