These are my impressions from making the video in class.
If I could do this project over again, I would not give Angelo any lines. No, I am just kidding; Angelo did a great job. We really should have had cue cards from the very beginning though because we went from doing around 10 takes for each scene to 1 when we were properly scripted. No one from the class had much negative feedback with the final product of the video, but there were certainly things that could have gone a little smoother in the recording process.
I liked recording this video more than ones in the past because we had the Flips and they made it extremely easy to take footage and put it onto our computers. I especially liked learning how to use iMovie because it is the easiest video editing software I have ever used. Selecting part of a clip you want and dragging it into the timeline, dropping transitions, text, and audio clips in, it all works pretty much exactly as you would guess it would work. The only slightly challenging parts were doing still frames or changing audio levels because those options are sort of hidden in right-click menus.
I think it would be possible to make a video like this in a class I teach, as I had to make videos like this when I was in high school, but it is certainly much easier when you have all of the right equipment for it. In order to do this with a middle or high school class, I would want to make sure there were video recorders like the Flip in the school that we could give out to students, and they would film during the school day. It would also be important to have the right computers and environment for editing. I liked having each student do the editing individually as it forces everyone to learn how to do it. Hopefully, we would have a computer lab with iMovie on all the computers, and I would have the kids edit during a period with headphones on because it can be difficult getting all the audio right when you hear everyone else in the class editing theirs.
From creating this video, I certainly learned how to edit well in iMovie. I felt like I was able to make a video that was surprisingly professional looking once I mastered how to put text and transitions in and get the timing perfect. I also learned that video projects are more enjoyable to make if you have the right recording equipment, as a lot of the annoyance of making videos in lower education came from figuring out how to get the technology in order.
