PE3_iMovie

Lynda.com’s iMovie Tutorial Certificate of Completion

One of the great features of using Lynda.com for learning is the ability to obtain a Certificate of Completion upon finishing all tutorials. This certificate enhances and helps highlight a users professional skills and credentials after establishing  proficiency with using applications such as iMovie.

Brief highlights off key elements that I practiced and found easy and fun to use during my final stages of learning iMovie with Garrick Chow at Lynda.com  included

• Working with Effects
• Storyboarding
• Transitions
• Title and text integration into clips
• Green Screen
• Working with Audio
• Advantages & tips for how and when to add Music and Sound effectively
• Adding Background Music
• Voice Overs & Narration
• Use of Beat Markers for integrating music with Photo’s for dramatic slideshow movie effects
• Extracting Audio from other clips
• Sharing and compressing movies effectively in various technically appropriate ways

My Reflective Experience: Making Connections Learning iMovie By Doing

My resistance of learning how to edit effectively and create a entire movie has been a part of my challenge since the beginning of the EMDT program. I had no desire to learn all the technical aspects to video making because I have relied on keeping my other videos on DVD or Tapes. Additionally, photography has been my main focus so I  didn’t see how I was going to engage myself during this process. However I have learned to LOVE what I have experienced with editing and audio that enables me to apply myself creatively in so many ways now I am excited to start using more often to apply, teach, and show others what I have learned. Pushing pass resistance has helped me see that taking a risk and being open to what may be possible in my own learning,  even when it is out of my comfort zone, can bring many rewards intrinsically and for others! Finally, after revisiting the last parts of the tutorial, which are the most important aspects to learn for applying and adding your own creativity to any project, I’m ready to make my own movies and show others my first iMovie creation!

The following iMovie I created demonstrates a sample of  how I created a dramatized movies that displays a progression of change with photography. I believe this first example will be helpful when I teach my students how to use photography to document growth and changes over time for learning.

During the making of this movie I learned and applied these specific elements:

• how to create Beat Markers before photo’s imported into iMovie to best make slideshows with music to create a specific tone and mood
• how to add automatic transitions between clips
• how to add background music and audio for my movie
• how to trim clips to specific time measures
• how to add themes and titles into my clips by simply dragging and dropping right over photos and between transitions
• how to use the Ken Burns effect to fade in and out to add a dramatic effect using photo’s and music to make movies

I will continue to practice using other aspects of iMovie such as Trailers and various Themes for movies in the future. But most of all I enjoyed being able to integrate photography easily into iMovie.

Enjoy the show!