Assignment Description: Students create a 30 second video using iMovie, Movie Maker, Premiere, or other video editing software using still images and audio. The intent is to “play” with different aspects of basic video editing including titles, transitions, clip trimming, manipulating audio, etc., in order to familiarize themselves with the tools. Since this is an exercise, the theme/storyline is up for choice.
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Video Exercise for AAD 585: Multimedia for Arts Organizations from Evelyn Thorne on Vimeo.
Reflection: My video is obviously longer than 30-60 seconds. I didn’t really have a concept of how short a time that really is till I started making the video. My idea was far too large. I will have to keep this in mind next time I create a video. I don’t consider this my best work, but partly because I do not like Movie Maker. Every time I went to fix something, it threw everything else off. I don’t know if this is common for all movie editing software, but it was very frustrating. If I wanted to adjust the music, all music following was now off timing. This deterred me from fine tuning the video because I didn’t have the time to continually fix everything. However, in the end, I think it’s a fairly good first attempt. I might have gotten carried away with the slide transitions, but I felt the video was corny enough to justify them.