NNP Delivered!

Today Tuesday February 19 2013, our general elections is completed.Numerous parties contested keenly in the various constituencies to win one of the fifteen seats up for grabs to become members of the new parliament to be formed which would lead Grenada for the next five years. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of indifference the entire time that the results of the various polling stations were being announced by the Supervisor of Elections, Mrs. Judy Bennoit. At the same time I was cross referencing the information being received with results of the previous two or three elections formerly held here.
The New National Party (NNP) whose symbol is the house won the elections with a landslide victory as they had done in one previous election that was held in 1999.This means that no member of the opposition party was even elected to be a member of the opposition.

Grenada Elections Today!

Who will deliver? NNP or NDC...

Who will win the constituencies?

Grenada's political constituencies

Windows Movie Maker, A mobile device and creating a short film

This is how I went about creating the film to warn children of danger.

• I researched the topic 'Dangers children face everyday' on the web and used information from many of the documents to come up with the information displayed in the movie.
• Next I went to the Web to find pictures that best depict the information thought about. You will notice that instead of using a mobile device, pictures from the web were used. (There are definite disadvantages and limitations from using pictures from the web).
• All the pictures were then saved to my computer, then imported in movie maker to begin creating the movie.
• Next, I created sounds to match up with the dangers I wanted to present to children using a text to speech software.
• The sounds were then imported and inserted in the audio field.
• The length of the sounds was matched up to the length of time for which a picture or group of pictures is to be displayed.
• Finally, I Inserted a title and credits then published and saved my movie. The finished product: Movie: Dangers for Children is now ready for viewing!

To create a film using a mobile device is to make an original production. Nevertheless, I count it an incredibly great method to use pictures and relevant audio to create a movie. One might argue that the pictures that I copied from the Web are in most cases copyrighted and can cause serious legalities, federal and civil issues, to surface if publishers decide to enforce their rights. Additionally, one may not be able to find a specific picture on the Web to correspond with the ideas being endeavoured to express. One has to take into consideration fair use also, making sure that he or she does not exploit publicised works to the extent that it seems to be his or her own.

On the other hand though, I believe that pictures are easy to source, almost anytime with a reliable Internet connection, making it possible to create a movie twenty-four hours of the day. In fact, they come in different sizes and varieties and can be edited after which they fit like a Cinderella shoe in a document. With the innovation of photo-shopping also on can re-create a picture to make it look like the sentiments to be expressed in writing.