User:Afreekaman

Hi and welcome to Afreekaman's Wiki page.

The purpose of this page is to discuss the free use and implementation of multimedia technology (such as open source audio, video and moving image). There are an infinite number of sources of audio, video and image application, developing and editing software and technologies available, however I would like to focus on end to end solutions for household/home/family uses and presentation.

As an an example, many families today have fewer resources and funds to take holidays and equipment for recording or presenting those events. Parents are also having a hard time making the lives of children/dependents interesting, educating and rewarding, whilst trying to maintain busy and demanding lifestyles.

Young people today are so in-tuned with technologies, that it might be a good idea/easier to use these mediums to expand, educate and improve a family's quality of life through young people, their ideas, enthusiasm and hunger for multimedia technology.

My niece for example always talks about the new this and new that, but if I ask her to create a video of what she does or how she does it, she's has all these wonderful ideas, but finds it difficult to actually put a "portfolio" or presentation together using all the technologies at her disposal. Ultimately she would need to plan, story board, use some audio/image/video/animation combination of applications to present her ideas or story. So for a young person who would like to produce a multimedia presentation, they would probably pass through some sort of process as follows:

1) Sketch or script and idea or project

2) Plan and assemble a collection of possible free software applications and tools

3) Build or try out a prototype

4) Review their idea / prototype

5) Finalise and present their project.

As part of this idea, through my experience of working on a project within my local community the London Borough Of Hammersmith and Fulham, I will update this page with how to go about how to implement the end-to-end use of producing Audio, Video and moving Images using completely free Open-Source software and where possible using only house holds goods.

(A really simple example would be to create a stop-frame-animation using either a video camera or a photo camera with video capabilities and household puppets made from the likes of tissue, toilet rolls, string, thread etc...and so on).

Where ever we can find links to Wiki written tutorials or topics on the various parts of the project, especially Open-source software and applications we will list the links here.