Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your next journey steps around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is to open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
I have now watched all the video tutorials for YouTube Editor, Animoto, Moovly, WeVideo, and iMovie. I am not going to be paying any money for my Capstone video, so that eliminates Animoto, Moovly, and WeVideo. I’m going to be using my district issue Lenovo, so that eliminates iMovie. So I’ll be using YouTube Editor. Taking the next steps makes me very nervous. I’m starting to have a concept of how I want my video to look. I’ve written and edited my script and it’s a little over 90 seconds, when I read it fast. So I’m happy with that. I’m okay if it’s a little long. Now what I need to do is take pictures and video of my classes using technology during stations to use as my b-roll. That will happen Thursday and Friday this week when I do stations. I also need to figure out how I’m going to show my still frame shots of my class and the photos of apps/websites that I’m featuring in my Capstone stations usage. To me, the part I’m fearing the most is editing the video, so the pictures that I want to show up actually show up during the right time of my reading. I know I created one or two other videos during my year with Touro, but none of them were as involved, with as many “moving parts” so to speak. It would be nice if the videos that we had to create earlier in the program were a little more extensive, so by the time students got to semester 3, they were a lot more comfortable with the editing tools. I sent a message to the guy that was linked in our iCare that had the YouTube editor video to see if he would email me to give me some advice. I’m waiting to hear from him, or if anyone in our cohort has experience with YouTube editor, they can let me know in the comments...Thanks!
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Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your journey around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. How did you decide what editor you might use? What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
At this current time, I think I might be going about this backwards...only time will tell. It's Sunday evening, and my blog is due, and I haven't messed around with any video yet because I've been writing my script, saying it out loud, timing myself and trying to get it somewhere around 90 seconds. I did watch the recommended videos and of the four that were on the iCare doc, I really liked the fourth and final one, which was "cartoony" and done using the Powtoon app. In my mind, I'm going over my script and wondering if it will be possible to use that format for my video. I also got onto about 4 other capstones and watched their videos, and that inspired me quite a bit. Alex Saslow's was like an infomercial, I really like it, and his acting performance is Oscar worthy. I know I won't be able to use iMovie because I'll be using my school computer, I don't have a Mac, but I still need to check out Movly and WeVideo. I spent my time writing my script instead of playing around with any of the video apps, so I can't really share any of my frustrations yet. If you haven't written your script yet, I found going back to my research paper and pulling 4 or 5 nuggets of information helped me quite a bit with my script. |
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