Video+Editing+Project

[[image:Austin.gif align="center"]] This week's assignment was to compile and edit video clips into a less-than-one minute movie. The movie also needed music and personal narration.
====Initially, the hardest part was deciding what the movie was going to be about and finding corresponding clips. I surfed YouTube for what seemed like forever! Finally, I realized I had footage from around my hometown, Austin, Texas. Now the trick was going to be narrowing the clips down to under a minute!====

====I've had some experience editing video clips, so that part was relatively easy...that is until I had to re-edit the lengths of some of the clips because I couldn't say all I wanted to say about the clip in the narration before the clip was over! But I have to say iMovie makes this process almost painless.====

Adding music was a breeze. I chose a jingle that is offered as a part of the iMovie program. So all that was left was narration.
====I know I have a tendency to talk a lot, but never was that more evident than while recording the narration. I tried recording narration while the clips were sliding past. I'd still be talking about one clip when the next one came up. So I'd go back and lengthen the clip (because every word I have to say is important!). Then I'd be over my one-minute limit. So after the tenth (10th!) "take," I decided it was good enough. I'm pleased with the final timing of the narration, but it sounds like I was way too close to the built-in microphone.====

A colleague in this same course suggests recording the dialog on a clip-by-clip basis. Maybe I'll try that next time...
http://techheroes.wikispaces.com/file/detail/LamarVideoProject_Austin.mp4