The product so far for my Capstone Project video has morphed from what I first envisioned. I think my initial storyboard was a bit too ambitious! When I began planning the video filming, I realized I would need a camera person, a mic, and more time than I had to commit to the filming. I also saw that my video would exceed 90 seconds. Back to the drawing board. I scrapped my original idea, kept the bare bones of my script, and decided I would use raw footage with my students and do a voice over so I wouldn’t have to mess with a microphone. I thought I did a good job of writing a script that stayed below 90 seconds. I timed it while speaking on the slow side of normal speech. What I’ve found is that when you add the pauses between slides and transitions, the seconds add up. I’m at 2:00 minutes now. I need to edit down the script and reduce the transitions. Feedback from my critical friends in my cohort will be very necessary here. The filming day was quite a bit of fun for me and my students. I thought they would be reluctant to be filmed, but they embraced it and enjoyed it. I was pleased to see that their involvement added some humor to the resulting clips. Hopefully the intended humor will translate to the viewer. I’m also finding that I’m fond of certain clips and therefore have a harder time editing these clips out of the final cut. (Now I understand why filmmakers do “bloopers”.) Again, I would appreciate a fresh perspective from my cohort team.
Editing was time consuming. Most likely my lack of experience has added more than a few minutes to the process! It also seems like the cosmos conspired against a smooth evening of downloading and uploading. I lost internet connection multiple times and Adobe Spark would get glitchy and not save slides and videos. I’m letting Adobe rest for the evening and I’ll hit the editing again after I see what it decided to save. I like working with Adobe Spark so far. I would like to find out if it is possible to change the music track midway through the video. I want to go from one kind of music for the presentation of the problem, and then change to more uplifting music for the presentation of the solution. Overall, the process has been a realization of the growth I’ve experienced over the semesters. Not only have I gained new technological skills and tools, but my perspective on teaching reading has expanded to include more innovative ideas and tools to assist a wider range of students.
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I am trying to figure out how to squeeze everything into my video, and can really relate to being overly ambitious. Finding the time to film is NO JOKE either. Remember when we said we wanted to be finished with everything BEFORE Thanksgiving? That was a funny idea, wasn't it. Keep plugging away. Soon we will have our MASTERS!!
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Nai Saelee
11/15/2017 05:20:57 pm
Nancy,
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James
11/16/2017 08:17:02 am
Nancy,
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