PowerPoint

Gary Handman

Media Bells & Whistles

DirectorMedia Resources Center

Moffitt Libraryghandman@library.berkeley.edu

Icons of the Beat Generation

--Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there.

--Where we going, man?--I don't know but we gotta go.

--from On the Road

Icons of the Beat Generation

Six poets at the Six Gallery. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C.

Remarkable collection of angels all gathered at once in the same spot. Wine, music, dancing girls, serious poetry, free satori. Small collection for wine and postcards. Charming

event.

Allen Ginsberg

Excerpt from Howl

The Origins of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance:

Six Gallery Reading, San Francisco--October 13, 1955

The Origins of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance:

Six Gallery Reading, San Francisco--October 13, 1955

Icons of the Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

--from On the Road

Icons of the Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac

Kerouac reading from “On the Road” on the Steve Allen Show, 1959

So? How’d He Do That…?

Photograph: Grabbed photographic image (at right) from

Bancroft Library (Pictorial Highlights From UC Berkeley Archival Collections on the web). Any .gif or .jpeg image can be used (scanned from

hard-copy; from the web; from other sources) From the web: SAVE IMAGE AS to hard disc

Inserted image using INSERT/PICTURE/FROM FILE from PP menu

NOTE! The image file need not be present on your machine when you give your presentation (I.e, once you’ve clipped it into PP, you’re set)

Can be re-sized and further manipulated in PP

This ain’t rocket science, man!: or: it doesn’t take the best minds of this generation to do cool stuff...

So? How’d He Do That…?

or Create a digital (.wav) sound file from an analog audio tape using:

Standard cassette recorder (or any audio output device) Audio capture/play hardware (SoundBlaster, others) Audio capture/edit software (Sound Forge, others)

Sound Recording

Can use any .wav or other useable sound files: “appropriated” from web or other sources (the tune playing now is from jazz CD web site) or from PP Sound Gallery (if you like hokey)

PP also allows you to play a track/tracks from a CD-audio inserted in your machines CD-ROM drive (INSERT/MOVIES and SOUNDS/PLAY CD AUDIO TRACK)

NOTE! The sound file needs to be present on your machine or on the disc which contains your PP data when you give your presentation.

your name here:your name here:

So? How’d He Do That…?Moving Images

Created a digital (.avi) movie file from an analog videotape using:

standard VHS or laserdisc player (DVD doesn’t work!)

Video capture board Adobe Premiere or other video editing

software Can also use .avi, QuickTime (.qt), .mov or other video files “appropriated” from web or other sources or from PP Movie Gallery (if you like hokey)

NOTE! The video file needs to be present on your machine or on the disc which contains your PP data when you give your presentation.

your name here:your name here:

…the Web alternative?your name here:your name here:

Possible to publish this presentation as HTML BUT: You’ll lose all of the sound and moving

image media You can deliver sound and video on the web by

linking from a PP slide to a streamed A or V file

Putting media in a web-mounted version of a PP presentation (or linking to web-based media from a desktop version of the presentation) means: Capturing/digitizing/compressing the video

with a video/audio board and editing software Mounting the compressed video file on your

server Having the appropriate server software and

the appropriate players on your machine.

No Matter How You Cut It, the Image Will Look Cheesy!

Icons of the Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac

Kerouac reading from “On the Road” on the Steve Allen Show, 1959

(link to a web site with streamed {RealVideo} video)

Other Stuff to Know... Video files (even very short

clips) are huge! This means:--Don’t get carried away! --Don’t confuse any of this with

building a multimedia web site You generally can’t hold a PP

presentation w/media on a floppy disc (sometimes even Zip won’t cut it)

Best run off hard disc (rather than floppy)

Slow CPUs will bring you down Won’t play on web Copyright may be an issue?

Where To Pull This Stuff Off Few campus departments currently have the necessary bells and whistles (or bell ringers and whistle blowers)

Campus Units which can (theoretically) help you:

Office of Media Services

Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

Media Resources Center (Moffitt Library)

This is Basically How You Do It...

Find yourself some nifty web content:

http://www.jazzphotos.com/

Right Click mouse: SAVE LINK AS (save to your hard disk)

Insert and manipulate the still image

• INSERT/PICTURE FROM FILE

• Resize the image by dragging corners/sides

• Use View/Toolbars/Picture to manipulate properties of the image

Insert Media• Get da Content!: http://miles.rtvf.

nwu.edu/~miles/mdqtvideo.html

Right Click mouse: SAVE LINK AS (save to your hard disk)

• INSERT/MOVIES & SOUND/MOVIE FROM FILE

• Resize the image by dragging corners/sides

• Play it!

Using Imported Sounds with Bullet Points

• Get da Content!

Right Click mouse: SAVE LINK AS (save to your hard disk)

SLIDE SHOW/CUSTOM ANIMATION

Select: Other Sound

Animate this line and add imported sound

“Now it’s jazz, the place is roaring, all beautiful girls in there, one mad brunette at the bar, drunk…”--from October and the Railroad Earth, Jack Kerouac

Questions?Questions?

William Burroughs