I started this project knowing anything about editing. I decided to watch a video on youtube, which helped me a lot. I knew that if i began to play around enough with imovie i could learn new things, so that is exactly what i did. Personally, i did not think i was capable of editing the film opening but hey, guess i am!! As we began to put the movie together, we decided that none of us were experienced at editing (not good!! UH OH). Camy, Sam and I all agreed that out of the three of us i had the best computer to edit on, had the most previous knowledge on editing and would probably have the most free time to play around with it.
A couple new skills i learned to do on imovie are: fading in and out background music, making shots look sharp, stabilizing a shot, creating a stop motion shot, how to make a voiceover have no background noise, how to control audio volumes, and how to speed up and slow down a shot without making it look completely obvious.
To be completely honest, at first i did not think i would be able to edit the whole film by myself, but looking back at the project now i am extremely proud of all the new skills i learned. From learning how to edit, I also learned how important editing is to a film. When the timing for a shot was wrong, it would literally change the entire meaning of the shot. If a shot is meant to look slow then, its edits better be slow, if not the message will not be conveyed the way it is supposed to be. After editing this project, I realized that i would have loved to edit all of my past projects. It is very very very time consuming but at the same time entertaining to learn new skills. Youtube has tons of videos to watch to learn how to use Imovie but what i learned throughout this project was that it is not the most efficient way of learning to use it. I personally am a very hands-on learner. It was easier for me to play around with Imovie rather than watch videos of other people playing around on it.
Stay tuned, final project coming soooooon!
References
Bai (2017). Imovie 2017- Full Tutorial for Beginners [General Overview].
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