Tutorials Four and Five: Videos

Here's a really really cool video that we made about "Overcoming Adversity"... don't ya just hate it when you forget your spoon for your yoghurt?!!!



We made this video for a couple of our tutorials that concentrated on "films". We learnt about techniques for filming (like using a tripod, different ranges of shots etc), editing films using imovie on the mac computers, and posting them to youtube.

Like I said, the theme was "Overcoming Adversity". First we had to think of an idea, and then plan it out using storyboarding. That helped us to think about the actual story and how we would tell it. We had to think about what type of shots we would use and where, and close ups to show detail such as facial expressions.

Then came the shooting, I think we pretty much stuck to the script, but view it yourself and see what yo think :)

Using the imovie feature on the macs proved to be relatively easy once we'd gotten the hang of it, we even managed to cut down more than 10minutes of filming to 1 1/2 minutes of produced film! And added some random music to it as well :).

After it had been converted to quicktime format, we could post our masterpiece onto youtube. Youtube's services are free to watch and utelise, and anybody can post video's onto it aslong as you have created an account. The general public view the videos and can comment if they want to. Our video has had 22 views so far, and unfortunatley the music has been disabled by youtube but oh well, we still had fun makin it :).