Filming: Editing progress

Editing is taking a LOT more time than expected.
I know; it’s something people always say but to experience is a different thing altogether.
That’s because editing is not just trimming video clips or adding effects, but also the whole process of deciding which clips are suitable and watching the result to see what works and what doesn’t work. Plus, stabilizing each video clip takes so much time.

Editing is a very ‘real time’ project. It’s not like studying, where it can sometimes be crammed into a short amount of time. Editing is more like exercising. You can’t really rush it and doing more in one day is just going to be painful.

Total video filmed: 25 minutes
Current project: 7 minutes

Conclusion: Still need cut down the video time and only use really good video clips.

iMovie

As an HP user, I don’t use iMovie so it was interesting with experiment with its features. As a group of 4, we had 20 minutes in class to film some video and then a little more time to edit it using iMovie. We had many laughs during the filming and editing process and we learned to use many iMovie features despite the short time span.

Some things we used were… Continue reading

Kinetic Typography by Chris Silich

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Today is the fifth of November so I’d like to show you a 2 minute video that connects one of my favourite movies (V For Vendetta) with typography and vocabulary and digital media.

This is one of the way in which digital media can help you visualize words. The way the words transition on the screen allow the text to portray emotions.

Take a look.

V For Vendetta Typography