End Of Week 4

Wow I can't believe we've been working on this project for four weeks already. This week I downloaded this super cool file converter program and changed the formats of my videos. Then I imported them into Movie Maker. Since I had a video that was ten minutes long I made it a lot shorter and got it split up into a whole bunch of little clips. I selected a few clips and put them on the timeline and also added an intro and a transition effect to make it look a little cooler... then I muted the audio from the video. Anyways, this whole video thing is fun and all but I am getting extremely bored out of my mind. Well see how next week goes.

Goals for the Week Of Feb. 23rd

This week my goal is to get my videos at home changed into an acceptable format and imported into Movie Maker. I'll do that tomorrow after school because I'm not doing any homework tonight. Then I'm going to cut the clips, keeping only the good stuff, and put them on the time line in a good order. Until then I will watch more tutorial videos.
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End of Week 3

woah.. that week was like super short, I loved it. So...the things I accomplished. Well I finished the book. Yes, I read through the entire thing. There wasn't any activities so that was kinda lame, but overall it was good and had good information. I watched more tutorial videos online as well. So I pretty much just have tons of information now. So I HAVE TO get my videos converted and imported on Monday. I'm sick of it taking so long. Adios!

Goals for Week Of Feb. 17th

There is only three days this week! yay! which also means that I probably wont get much work done. My goals for this week are as follows: covert the video files I have into an acceptable format that movie maker allows, watch more tutorial videos to learn more about editing and effects, and to continue reading the textbook and get through at least three chapters. Everything should go good as long as I can get my videos imported, otherwise I will get very angry. In an unrelated note, I turn 18 in 6 days. :)

End Of Week 2

This week I read through the first four chapters in the textbook. I also watched more tutorial videos. Reading the book went well and I think I learned a few new things. What didn't go well is that I have to change the format of my film so that it can be imported into movie maker. That's really lame.

End of Week One/ Goals for Week of Feb. 9

I was gone on Friday last week so now is my time to write a review about the last week. I was also gone on Wednesday so I didn't get much done last week. I watched a lot of tutorial videos and set up how I will organize my folders in Movie Maker. I also looked at the videos I have at home and will be putting them on a flash drive so I can bring them in and upload them.


This week I will be learning from a book!! :) I'm very excited to get started. I learn much better from books than from the internet. I will also bring in the videos I have and see if I can work with them or if I will have to get new videos. So all in all, I will upload videos and cut them so they only have the good parts, and I will read and follow the book as far as I get during the week. Hopefully at least the first three chapters is my goal. I plan to learn everything in it though, so I'm not going to race through it. This should be a good week!

Goals for week of Feb. 2

I'm going to find random video, pictures, and music and import them into Movie Maker and play around with that a bit. I am also going to watch some tutorial videos on 'getting started'. yippe skippy.

Uncertainty

I have yet to decide what my video will be about. I know I already have some recordings of live bands when i went to see These Hearts and also August Burns Red. I could maybe mix a bunch of stuff together with cool transitions and make a video about why shows are awesome or something? Im really not sure. Or maybe when I'm at the dike I could film snowboarders or just random places I could film random rad stuff and make it into a music video? I don't know. The possibilities are endless. I would want the video to be really fast paced and exciting though because that's what I like. I know I'll want a little slow part as an introduction or something to show contrast. I also always wanted to have credits, pauses, warped picture stills, and maybe like a fast preview of everything at the beginning. ??? It's all up in the air. Mostly I just know I will have to take more videos and pictures outside of class so I can get some stuff to work with.


As for the project as a whole, once I decide what to do, I will need to watch tutorial videos online and also if Mrs. Tollefson gets me a book I'll go through the chapters and do any projects or examples in the book. This way I will get a better grip on Windows Movie Maker and will be able to make a super, awesome-er video (project). I'm pretty sure I already know how to do most of it but then I'll have more time to make it better and use all of the things available.

Ahhh

So I pretty much deleted my post last friday. ugh. What I accomplished in the first week- not much. I know I'm going to be making a video and I know what site to look at for tutorial videos and I talked to Mrs. Tollefson about getting a book. I set up a blog, my first! :) I also set up this gmail account. Last week I also looked at Windows Movie Maker and looked at everything on the drop down lists and also looked under the help and looked at how to do things. Much more to do in the upcoming weeks.