Making Videos

Below, you'll find an embedded video I put together with clips I took while driving from my house to Perkins in Minnetonka. It was a lot of fun doing that.

The process of putting the video together was extremely fun for me! The details involved in sequencing, editing, and adding the right effects really appeal to me. I feel like I could spend an entire day messing around with iMovie and not feel it was a waste of time.

As I worked to edit my movie effectively, I realized a few things:
1. The clips I made weren't always long enough. While I was shooting, I felt that I had a good length of tape, but it was far less than I thought when I began to edit
2. It's easy to spend way too long trying to figure out how to get the timing just perfect

Therefore, when I put this program into action in my classroom, I will have to make sure I tell them to take clips that run for at least 5 seconds a piece. In fact, 10 may be better so as to allow more room for editing and cutting. This was my biggest problem. I'll also have to spend...days, I'm sure, teaching them how to use the program with some premade video clips. This way, when they start working with their own content, they can have a better idea of what it is they want and how to do it.

I will also require storyboarding, which I've just recently introduced to my students. So far, we've storyboarded existing stories, but down the line, they will have to storyboard their own ideas ahead of time.

Without further ado, "Night Driving"...