PE2_iMovie

In this second post, I want to discuss my use of some of the editing tools and the movie trailer feature.  All of the features were very easy to use.  In most cases, just one or two clicks.   I learned many new editing features including the cropping feature.  I knew how to use the Ken Burns effect before watching the tutorials, but I didn't know about cropping an entire clip!  I liked how I could move in on the clip to eliminate the heads in the bottom of the shot! I also used this feature to draw the focus more to my daughter.

Another feature that I had no idea was in iMovie was the "flash and hold last frame."  I enjoyed trying that out in my practice movie to showcase my daughter's impressive heel stretch.  It just brings so much emphasis and a particular point in the clip.

And finally, I played around with the movie trailer feature.  I love how the entire thing is done for me, and I have to enter the clips in.  One of my group members from month one, Jason, created an intro to our project using one of these trailers.  It  grabbed you and made you want to watch.  So I put some of my daughter's dance clips into a trailer.  I hope you enjoy it!

PE1_iMovie

I have used iMovie for several projects both is this program and in my classroom.  Up until now, I just "played" around with it and my projects have turned out decent.  I have watched the first 4 chapters (almost an hour) of the lynda.com tutorial on iMovie '11 and have learned quite a bit.  As Garrick Chow moved through the different lessons, I worked on my collection of clips.  Before, I had them all just in there where I had to I had to search through each clip when I wanted to work on a project.  I've gone through and marked many of my clips as favorites or rejected.  I've also tagged a few clips.  As you will see from the image that most of my clips are of dance (my daughter dances competitively).

I was able to identify the clips that I wanted to keep and possibly use in future projects.  Knowing what all the tools on the toolbar are used for made filter the clips much easier!