Week 10- Animoto/ Copyrights

This week we were able to explore three new presentation-making tools. In specific, we focused on a tool called Animoto. Animoto allows you to select images of your choice in which a video is then automatically created presenting the images in a slideshow. You can also add music to your presentation (whichever song you please) that helps capture the audience. However, before any of this can be accomplished, you must first sign up. Sometimes signing up for something new can be a pain due to all the spam emails you get, however Animoto was very easy. All I had to do was hit the “Log in with Facebook” button and I was automatically signed up.

(Copyrights & Trademarks, 2016)

After signing up, it is time to create your first video presentation. Just like the sign up, Animoto makes this super easy. Upon hitting the “Create” button, you are asked to choose from a large variety of sample templates. These templates all have different backgrounds as well as different background music. For the purpose of this assignment, I just chose the basic template to get me started. It is then up to you to add your own images and text if you so desire. This week, I made a presentation on copyrights. This assignment came at the perfect time, as I just had a midterm last week all about copyrights, trademarks and patents. With the definition fresh in my head, copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution. Copyrighting is considered a criminal offence in which someone can be charged against. I also learned that Google had an area where you could limit your search to just find images that are protected under copyright law. These are the images I used in my Animoto presentation: