8P1-Video About Me

I used the app, iMovie, to create a video about my family. First, I had to decide what I was going to make my video about, I found that doing this project last year helped me have good idea of what I wanted to create. Next, after I decided to make a video about my family, I found images of large families and chose one that best fit. On iMovie I edited titles to label my family members, and the lengths of the clips to make a minute long video. After I was satisfied with the visual of my video I made a voice over to explain each of my images, this took a few tries because I did not make a script.

Since I have done this project before it went relatively smoothly but I did learn a few new things. What I learned throughout this project was how to make titles on iMovie the right size on the right clip. Last year I did not put very many titles on my pictures so this was new for me. I also learned that the app won't allow you to put more than one title on one clip so I had to make multiple clips of the same picture. I also learned that when doing a voice over, a microphone is the best way to record your commentation. 

Of the 7 Class Standards Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project best aligns with being a Digital Citizen. This is because I used images online that I got without copyright. I was also very careful when I used the app iMovie, seeing as I share an iPad with other students I did not want to take up to much storage space, this was me using netiquette. Although I did not get any information from a website for information, my project still used a lot of other online tools.

A challenge that I had to work through during this project was finding the right image for my family. It was a problem for me because I could not find an image with no faces, and with the right amount of people. I did find an image that fitted well but had 2 extra people. I edited my images to exclude those two extras and make the image the right size. Throughout the video I had to do that to all my images so it shifts slightly from image to image, but I think it was still a good solve.

If I had the chance to do this exact project of my family again I would make my images longer and explain more about my family. I was only able to say their names and how they were related to me, I wish I had more time to say the cool things they do. Doing this project last year allowed me more knowledge of what I wanted to see in my video, so other than the voice over I am happy with my first project.

At the Hastings High School there is a Career and Technical Education Program that offers training in the fields of  Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, and Marketing. My project connect to the Digital Multimedia. This project is a smaller version of what the people in the careers of commercial makers, motion editing, camera operations or movie makers do.