Week 13

Due to poor weather conditions our task was shifted from collecting data to another project. Some students set up for aviation day and others focused on their own small projects. Me and Ian had a small project that was making a video for how to correctly pack a parachute. We made this video in hopes that future students would be able to learn how to pack the parachute. When we learned how to pack the parachute we had to go strictly off directions on a training manual with very limited pictures. Having a video or slideshow would help tremendously by letting students see visually how to do it. Me and Ian first set up the camera so it could see the whole parachute. We discussed how we wanted to do it. Our plan was to video tape it with us doing in multiple sections. Since we were in a room with other people we also decided that doing a voice over for the video. This would also let us watch the video after hand and comment on the packing. Having to talk them through the process while packing the parachute could lead to missing information. While taking the video we also took photos up close to show finer details such as the folds and brake line. We took the videos in segments so that we could trim out sections that weren’t needed. Ian has put the videos into a video editing software so he could put in transitions and trims. The instructional video is nearly complete, we will look it over a couple more times and have someone else watch the video and pack a parachute before we finalize it. If there are any issues with the video, then the test run should show where the flaws are.