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What happened at Bluff Creek?
Hello!
This week, I used Rise's new Custom Block to add extra layers to this microlearning mystery.
Can you solve the mystery of what happened at Bluff Creek?
As this Beta feature is not yet fully accessible, I needed to hardcode the captions into the videos I used in the Custom Blocks.
Otherwise, it was very easy to angle the videos and combine them with shapes, images, and text, to create 'interactive collages' in the Custom Block.
Bonus feature
I've used Fire Mods from Discover eLearning to add a custom reflection block to the course. (ChrisHodgson is a genius!)
This allows you to jot down your hunch during the investigation, and then refer back to your notes before the final reveal. Just like Columbo would.
The voice of 'Annie' is 'River' from Storyline 360's AI Text-to-Speech. I exported the audio files and added the tinny tape recorder effect in Audacity.
For the final reveal, I asked Rise's AI Assistant to generate an image of a "Bigfoot creature wearing a trilby". Then I used Pixlr to give him a nose job and blur the image slightly, so the creature resembles the earlier footage of 'Bill'.
The audiovisual elements were made using CCO footage from Unsplash, with a dash of Synthesia, edited in Camtasia. Then I mixed it all together in Rise and... voila! One half-baked mystery.
Can you piece together the events of Tuesday, 13th July, 1976?
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This is really creative use of the tools you used to piece together a fun micro mystery! Love the Super8 cameras. Have you seen the movie Super8 Jonathan_Hill?
Thanks Cyd. I had Super8, Stand By Me, and Stranger Things in mind as I created this. Pleased you enjoyed it.
Sounds like we are like minded! Can't wait for season 5 of Stranger Things. Rewatching the seasons to prepare.
I have no idea how you make these masterpieces so quickly and so often. This is amazing and super fun!
Thanks Kate! I knew I wanted to create something 'retro' with the custom blocks, but didn't know exactly what until I found that vintage rafting footage on Unsplash. A couple of coffees later, this was the result.
It does break one of the cardinal rules of question design ("All of the above"), but I think I just about got away with it.
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