At the beginning of this course, I didn't know much about video and editing. Our first assignment was to make a digital storybook. I used Photostory 3 and it was really easy to use. I chose pictures of my kids and I talked about how proud I am of my kids. It was set to a soothing background music. Photostory 3 is very user friendly with its step by step instructions. Everyone I showed it to was very impressed.
The second week we had to edit some video footage and use Audacity to record our voice. Editing video footage was not very easy for me. I tried to use Movie Maker and I didn't really think I did that good of a job. I had recorded some footage of my daughter at a football game and I figured out how to play to video while I was recording on Audacity so I would make sure my words matched with the footage.
During weeks 3, 4 and 5 we were to get into groups and make a PSA video. My group decided on the topic of getting vaccinated. There is a new law for incoming freshman to get the Meninitis shot. We met through Google Docs and did all of our collaboration there. One of my members works at a high school and was able to use her AV students for the video. I developed the script and the rest of my team tweaked it as necessary.
I don't feel I helped a lot with the editing and I don't feel like I really learned a lot with editing. I really think that is something that needs to be learned hands on. With this type of course it is hard to learn a lot of hands on things. This is totally an online course and I had to really figure things out for myself which is very time consuming. I think the most beneficial thing I learned is Photostory 3 and I will definitely use that again.
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