Blog #8: Final Video Production
The overall production of my final video went more smoothly
than I expected. Although last week I
struggled with new programs to insert narrative along with my video, that
learning process helped me to work more quickly this week. Snagit 11 was extremely useful to allow me to
record video from the internet (such as You Tube) and also in adding narrative
to my screen shots. I also found
Audacity easy to work with for adding narration to my images.
It was challenging turning my proposal into an interesting
story. I completed my story map last
week, but realized that it wasn't a very compelling story and that I had left
out some critical information such as why I chose to use wikis for peer editing
as opposed to blogs or other technology.
Therefore I kept the basic story core but included these elements to
show more of the inner struggle I had in determining my CE Proposal topic. It was also somewhat difficult to find images
to use for my comparison of technology in 1980 versus in 2012. At one point I was close to requesting photos
on Facebook of friends peer editing in the eighties! I also almost went home to my parent's house
to find a similar image. Creating my
narrative also proved to be challenging to me.
I find that I struggle to speak without a script and therefore was
drafting all my narrative for each section.
The end result is that I sound a bit monotone and boring, at least that
was the response of my roommate who wasn't sure why I sound much more interesting
in person.
One thing that I would do differently is that I would have
bought a MAC instead of a PC. I really
like the video production features of iMovie versus Movie Maker and it seems as
though less converters and add ons are needed for the MAC. As far as changes to my actual video production,
I would have written out more detailed narrative when I was creating my
storyboard. This proved to be very time
consuming since I was writing it out as I went along. This course has challenged the technology
novice in me, but I did enjoy the process of creating the videos.
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