POSTSCRIPT The Tools We want to be pretty transparent about what we’ve done here. We crafted the web page that hosts these files in Macromedia Dreamweaver—we’re not yet using the latest version; instead, we used Dreamweaver 2004. We used Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create the images on the web page and the templates for our PowerPoint presentations. We also edited all of the images across the PowerPoints in Photoshop. The audio files were captured by us and by others either with the built-in mics on our computers, or by some other recording device. Phill, for instance, used his gaming headset to record audio narration he contributed. Danielle used a Labtec stick mic to record. We edited all of the audio files, both the music and the voiceovers, in Audacity, a freeware audio-editing application that is fairly robust. The videos we captured using Danielle’s Canon PowerShot A75 digital camera. It’s 3.2 megapixels and has a pretty good microphone built into it. It’ll capture video up to 20 minutes or so, as long as you have a decent-sized memory card. Danielle has a 256 meg Compact Flash card for it. You can get the A75 on eBay for around $40. You can get 1 gig memory cards for about $25 online, and that memory card is compatible with newer Canon digital cameras, too. The camera exports Windows Media Video files. To embed these in PowerPoint on a Mac most effectively, we converted the videos from .wmv to QuickTime movie format using YASA converter, relatively inexpensive shareware software that has a fairly robust set of options for working with audio and video files. The movie files you watched were created in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. We worked on PCs to create the slideshows and embed the movie files, audio files, and images. We then saved each slideshow as a .ppt file, then opened the slideshows up in PowerPoint 2003 on a Macintosh computer to convert the slideshows to .mov files. We assumed most folks would have QuickTime viewer on their machines, and it’s a quick and free download if not. We download the Grand Theft Auto font face, which is called Pricedown, from dafont.com, a great site for downloading different font faces, including corporate text treatment logotype fonts, like Disney’s, Coca Cola’s, and plenty of others. Obviously, we wouldn’t suggest using these for any for-profit ventures, but for fair use purposes including parody and research, they’re great resources. Most of the invisible work took place over email and in Microsoft Word—where we crafted drafts of our pieces, and sent them back and forth to each other.