Week 3 iMovie

Last week during class we began our iMovie project in groups. My group is creating an awareness 30 second video about bullying. We took the time to learn how to use video cameras and then walked around campus searching for a variety of people to give us their definition and thoughts about what bullying is. Then using iMovie on the Macs we started the process of making our movie. It was pretty tricky trying to learn how iMovie worked, but I think we have the basics down. We met on Friday as well to try and deeper our understanding of how the program works.

Some of the important points I would like to remember about using iMovie is the difference between events and projects and how to correctly save a safe iMovie document. Events are the movie clips that you have recorded on a camcorder that I have been put onto the computer. These clips can be cut and then moved into the project window. Projects are what you are putting your clips from events into. This is where you are creating your movie that will be finalized and shown. Also, this is where you can add different effects, such as music, transitions, cropping/zooming in on clips, etc. When you are finished working on your iMovie it is important to remember how to correctly save it in a safe place. This is especially important when using computers at the school. It will save in your Movie Events and Projects, but to make it safe you need to highlight it and move it to the classy_bucy file and give it a name that you will later recognize. This process is used to re-open the project later, but reversed. You must high light and move the files back into your home drive and then open iMovie. Your project and events will be there and ready for you to work on.