8p1 Video About Me

Using iMovie and selecting creative commons photos, I created a movie about my favorite artists, places I want to go, my favorite places and one of my favorite books. I chose these topics because I love these things, and it makes me who I am. I also wanted people to learn a little more about me.

During this process, I learned how to use iMovie which meant downloading photos to my iPad and uploading them to the movie. This also meant learning how to arrange my photos and set the duration for my text. I also learned how to export my video from iMovie and insert it into my website. I had to learn how to save my video to my google drive to make this happen.

The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. An Innovative designer because I made my project unique. I had a vision for how it looked. My project also ties to being an Empowered Learner because I am taking an active roll in what I am doing.

A challenge I overcame on this project was finding 10 topics I was interested in, this was kind of difficult to me because I am not that creative and not that good at coming up with ideas. I overcame this challenge by making a list of a few things I am interested in and starting to branch off/collect other topics related to it. I thought of places I wished/wanted to go, and that led me to the idea of things I wanted to wish for.

Given a chance to do this again, I would make my photos look better (like maybe put filters on them) and give my project an aesthetic instead of random photos. The reason why I would change it is because I feel it would look more presentable and professional with higher quality photos then some low quality photos. I would also like to add more transitions and effects to my text and pictures. I would change this because I feel my project would be more entertaining if I added more effects.

Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing, my project connects to the Digital Multimedia. It connects with the Digital Multimedia because digital multimedia contains any content created using technology. My project also connects to the CTE program at Hastings High School. It connects because I also need technical skills in this project.

My project connects to a wide variety of careers like marketing/advertising, media, videographer or video editor because I will need to be able to find licensable high quality photos, and turn them into a video and save it to my drive. I needed to find licensable photos so I would not get copyrighted. I also needed a safe licensable song that was still entertaining.