"There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging
stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the
other..." -Edward Zwick
Through the use of my iPhone and iMovie I was able to put
together a short movie about myself and the separation I have in my life, the
separation of me being a bartender and me also being a camp counselor. It was
one of my first times using iMovie and playing around with the program, I
wasn’t so much nervous about the project as much I was excited to jump into it
and see what I could actually do with the program and see what kind of movie we
could produce as a team. Having the experience to sit down and take the time to
create something with iMovie was something that I really needed to learn and
wanted to learn.
All the things that you can do to edit a movie and create
something with this program is amazing. It was fun experiences watching
everything come together and watching different parts of my footage bond
together in way I didn’t even see at first. Even though I had to re do my movie
at least 6 times because it constantly disappeared or didn’t save, and it was
also a very tedious process with every single different option you could choose
from along with remembering absolutely everything I did on the previous movie
(putting in music, taking out background noise, putting in transitions, etc.) I
feel as if I know the program very well now and any future projects I do will
be done with no stress because of all the times I had to go back into my
project and edit everything and re do everything more than once. I suppose
practice does make perfect.
I went in to it this project with an open mind and not
becoming too stressed out about it because I knew it was going to be something
that I wasn’t familiar with so if I got myself all worked up about it then the
whole learning experience would of been ruined. I’ve seen many other people in
our class get all stressed and shut down because of the iMovie program or fed
up with the computers. All that none sense affects the whole group there for
setting the whole groups movie back because they couldn’t just finish their own
part of it. Many aspects of this was difficult, from cutting the music to be
perfect, to having the right amount of 1:20 on your video and exactly 5:30 as a
whole, dragging and dropping different things, projects not saving, and not
having abrupt endings. But without all the difficult things happening we would
of never learned the program properly. Everything in life isn’t easy and I for
sure didn’t expect this to be either.
I am very happy to of had the group I had and happy that
this project is finally complete and we are now able to present everything
everyone has been working on. It has been a fun ride and the outcome of mine
and my team member’s work has been better than expected. My group was very open
to everyone’s ideas and took everyone’s criticism very well; we all contributed
ideas for different things and knew how to communicate in a professional manner
without biting each others heads off. When it came down to the footage everyone
did an awesome job at getting everything they needed together and on time and
each had the right amount of work done to make the video 100% completely done.
I think that our topic of separation really fit in with our
team. We all were extremely different from each other in many ways but for our
movie we basically all did the separation of our jobs in some aspect. It was a
pretty easy concept to grab on to and run with because we didn’t have to really
show a traditional beginning or end to the movie since we were trying to reach
separation anyways, we had a lot of freedom to do whatever we wanted with our
own personal movies and the movie as a whole could stand out and be different.
Everything fit together really nice with all the transitions separating our
three different videos and the music that we used had good transitions. I
personally think we did an amazing job portraying separation and the class
watching will understand our topic. We used very minimal text and a few
pictures to tye up the ending of the video. Being OCD about the movie really
paid off because going in and fixing every detail to make sure it look exactly
how I wanted it and how the group wanted it is really going to pay off in the
end.
For never using this software or having to add music to
anything I feel like I did a really good job cutting music to fit it in. In my
own personal video I used two different songs where they would stop and one
would start again and then in another area had to start back up at the same
spot it ended. For that task alone I did the best I could with little knowledge
that I had and it came out exactly how I wanted it and wasn’t choppy or abrupt.
I do wish that maybe we spent one day learning about how to make it a little bit
smoother but I love being hands on and teaching myself new things.
I love the aspect of being able to use video to convey a
point or show anything at all, when I moved out my mom sent me videos of my dog
everyday which I loved way more than just a picture because I could actually
see him doing cute things like I was actually with him. Also, in most cases its
much easier for someone to grasp something but seeing it and also people can
pay more attention to something they are watching being done and not spoke at.
Growing up I never read books as much as my mom tried to force me to read I
just couldn’t get into a book, It didn’t have the same effect on me as other
people. But, once books started being made into movies and I could see the book
in "real life" that is when I started to appreciate what people could
do with making movies and finally put those visions in my head, the same ones
people got from reading.
Videos are a very positive tool that is used to grab a
person’s attention and not let go. By having something be loud and eye grabbing
with colors and text you can easily grab on to a person’s attention, describe
what you want that person to know about and they are sold. Commercials are the
best example, without eye grabbing commercials with catchy jingles companies
wouldn’t be able to sell any of their product, the new mini iPad commercials
they use a jingle that everyone knows and loves with a image of a iPad and
someone playing a keyboard on it and that very moment you want to download that
ap or go get a new iPad. Boom...sold.
YouTube has single handedly become one of the most popular
video streaming sites on the web. People have become world famous because of
YouTube whether it was because you were a singing sensation, or in my friend
Jack's case he did a stupid stunt on his BMX bike and made a lot of money
because he was put on Rob Dyrdeks show "Ridiculousness". Also if you
get enough hits on your YouTube page YouTube starts paying you money and again
I know many people who get checks every month for all the stupid shit that they
do.
I have never used Vimeo or even looked at it before I came
into this class. I have noticed that it is more for people who want to post
videos of just themselves or videos that they have made (such as projects like
the one we had to do). Everyone seems to have videos more on the creative side
which is probably why they don’t use YouTube because knowing their luck it
would probably be taken down and all their hard work gone to waste. YouTube is
a place for people to do awful renditions of other people’s songs, post dumb
pet videos, watch music videos and vent. Vimeo is a place where artists go to
be creative. The community of Vimeo is large and filled with indie filmmakers
and vast numbers of people with a passion for film; numerous popular
entertainers have used Vimeo to host content, even the White House posts
high-definition versions of its broadcasts to Vimeo.
YouTube has come a long way and has done amazing things for
people and giving them the free opportunity to post whatever they want but
within reason. People are getting noticed more and more because of YouTube,
many famous singers that we know today had been discovered because of YouTube.
There was a TV show called "Opening Act" where new opening acts for
top notch performers such as Bon Jovi were only found because of using YouTube
(mind blown). Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals,
although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other
organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube
partnership program.
But, in any case all good comes with bad. It’s amazing how
people get the courage to post videos of them singing or playing an instrument
or dancing and knowing that millions of people could see you but it’s also that
chance that those millions of people could bad mouth and break you down into a
million pieces. On YouTube there is this girl and her name is Nicole 337, my
friends tear her apart with her daily videos of her singing off key and doing
weird things. It’s sad because she definitely has some kind of autism but she
still does what she does even though people leave her awful comments telling
her to stop.
http://youtu.be/ioKPqVPC-eM <---Nicole337
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