Week 2 Reflection Activity:

This week focused on learning how to edit video clips, I had fun trying out different software. It’s a new way for me to be creative. I have plans for my new skills. I got so excited I bought a new digital camera for a trip that I am going on with my husband for our ten year wedding anniversary. I am going to make a very nice vacation video when I get back. So far I have experimented with three different video editing software, Apple’s iMovie, Microsoft’s Movie Maker, and Adobe Premier Elements.

iMovie was easy to work with, (last week) but I could not use it for the file formats I found for editing this week. The file formats that I had to work with were .mov .rm and .mwv

Adobe Premier Elements had a nice look to it but the trial software had trial software written over the screen where you edit the files and I found it to be distracting.

I ended up using iMovie, it was easy to use, it didn’t seem to have very many features but it got the job done.

When I get back from my vacation I should be able to use iMovie, which I liked best of all so far.

For this weeks reading significant quote I chose, “The Art of the Edit”, Lonnquist had stated the importance of having more than one shot to use. A close up and a wide shot, that way you can ensure that you will have usable footage (Lonnquist). The example Lonnquist gave is that he had to use a poor shot in a project with an eyesore of power supply in the middle of the kitchen for a dream homes shot, simply because he did not have another shot to use (Lonnquist). I will keep this in mind when shooting footage, to make sure that I have multiple shots that way I will always have a shot to fall back on.

Thanks!

Sandra Villarreal

Work cited: Lonnquist, J. (1994, November). The art of the edit. Videomaker. Retrieved on April 6, 2009, from http://www.videomaker.com/article/1691/.