Video Project

Working on the video project was a lot of fun and a great learning experience.  I enjoyed learning how to use Movie Maker and Audacity.  This software could be very useful in the classroom.  Making the video was easy.  It took a little while to get used to how to use the camera, but once we got the hang of it, it was simple.  We had to re-shoot a few scenes but only because after watching what we had filmed we decided that we should zoom in further or do something a little differently.  After filming we uploaded the footage to the computer and opened it in Movie Maker.  Movie Maker is really easy to use and make editing video simple.  This was the most difficult part of the process, however.  It was not hard, but it was quite time consuming.  It took us a little while to get the hang of editing the clips, and figuring out exactly what scene we wanted to use.  It also took quite a bit of time shortening out video.  After editing the scenes we realized some of them were too long so we had to go back a few times to edit them down.  After we got the clips edited and where we wanted them, the rest was simple.  We put in transitions and effects to make the video flow better and then we found music to go along with it.  This took a little time as well.  Finding music that fit what we wanted to portray in our video took a little bit of time, but after we found it it was easy import into our video.

While making this video was simple and easy, we did have a little bit of difficulty at one point.  We saved our unfinished video on my USB drive and continued to work on it a few days later.  However, when we pulled the video off of my USB the video content was not showing up.  We were nervous that we would have to redo the entire thing, but we got the video back with a little help and completed the video.

Overall, this project was a lot of fun to do.  Not only are the videos educational, they are easy to make.  Knowing how to film and edit videos will also come in handy when teaching, I believe.  This would be a fun project to do with my students.  It is a fun way to learn!