Final - My Passion

The goal of our final project was to create a soundslide project displaying our passion, I chose The Narragansett Bay. I was hoping to achieve a multimedia piece that showed the beauty of the bay from all different locations. The pictures I took were from all around campus, over the Mt. Hope Bridge and several locations at Colt State Park. My creating this soundslide I was also hoping to spread the word about the Save the Bay organization. The bay being endangered is something that effects all of us at Roger Williams because it is our backyard. My narration included a description of the bays location, habitat and information about Save the Bay.

What I found most difficult in putting together this final was working with Audacity. I began by working with the instrumental version of the song Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. For the first 26 seconds the pictures start to run with the song before my narration. My narration script is...

"The Narragansett Bay is a designated estuary of unparalleled beauty and national significance. It covers almost 150 miles on the north side of the Rhode Island Sound. The bay serves as a watershed home for almost 2 million people, and more than 12 million visitors each year.
It is a spawning ground, nursery and habitat for more than 60 species of fish and shellfish, more than 200 bird species, plus marine mammals such as seals, dolphins and sea turtles.
The bay provides recreational opportunities to those who live, work and play within its watershed. It offers wetlands and marshes that help shield the shorelines from storms and as a defense against flooding.
Save The Bay is an organization dedicated to protect, restore and improves the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay. Ecosystem based approach to environmental action defends the right of the public to use and enjoy the Bay.
The Narragansett Bay is an environmental treasure. It connects all of Rhode Island’s and Southern Massachusetts’ communities together and to the Ocean. It is the staple of the area’s tourism industry, and the symbol of the region’s history and culture."

What I enjoyed most about this project was taking all the pictures of the bay. Each picture I took I then edited on photoshop. With most of the pictures I simply just made the colors more vibrant or enhanced the colors. With more time I probably would have done more editing to the photos to give them the best possible coloring.

4 The Web

COLT STATE PARK

I was hoping to achieve a simple, easy to read and navigate website offering all the necessary information of Colt State Park. DreamWeaver was not too difficult to work with, it seemed like everything I did was pretty basic. There was no layout I used for each page, although if I made another website through DreamWeaver I would definitely like to play around with those. On the top and bottom of each page is a direction bar to each of the other pages, including: home, about, contact information, directions and park utilities.

The most difficult part of designing the webpage was adding pictures. I figured out how to import a photo, but they never seemed to work when I published the website. With more time I definitely would figure out how to add pictures and make them work. Pictures are kind of important for a website on Colt State Park, to show its landscape, water and environment.