https://padlet.com/mmaledon231/l3ru0bz0o86nroyz "Six Saucy Strings" - Go check it out, it's the best video on the internet right now! en-us 2022-06-13 03:29:12 UTC 2022-06-13 04:11:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f920.png mmaledon231 https://padlet.com/mmaledon231/l3ru0bz0o86nroyz/wish/2219022036 2022-06-13 03:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mmaledon231/l3ru0bz0o86nroyz/wish/2219022036 mmaledon231 https://padlet.com/mmaledon231/l3ru0bz0o86nroyz/wish/2219048958 1. This first week was actually a lot more stressful than I expected, but not solely because of this class. Because I'm also taking Photo Storytelling, I very easily confuse myself with the different projects and various website accounts I have to make and use for both of these art classes. Physics and summer baseball are also big stressors, but this class in particular is not the standalone contributor. The online platform was challenging, but I don't think it could have been taught any differently -- this format is about as practical as you can get when creating an online media class. Again, though, the difficulty of the online platform for me is coming from the combination of multiple classes that force me to have a million tabs open and 5 different windows open at once. I think I'm progressively getting the hang of it, however.
2. The most valuable thing I learned this week was some of the ways to shoot films. When I was filming my project, it was almost an instinct to hold the camera vertically and not really pay attention to variation in the shots I took. I realized pretty quickly that a vertical format in iMovie looks pretty horrible, though. I also learned a new way to upload videos from my phone to the Mac, which I will discuss in my response to Reflection Question 4, but basically, I learned that Airdrop was incredibly fast and uploaded 1080p footage like it was nothing.
3. I thought the Skillshare tutorials were pretty helpful for me, especially because they were very short and had lots of information per square inch. I usually prefer YouTube videos because they're just so accessible and I'm so familiar with the interface, but these Skillshare videos were also pretty easy because we didn't have to navigate around the website a bunch to find the videos.
4. The Capture a Location project was actually really fun for me to shoot. I planned some of the shots out for a little bit beforehand and even called my film-majoring brother for some cinematic advice (hopefully I don't disappoint him when he sees the final product). One struggle that I had was that my Google Photos account recently ran out of space (which was my go-to route to get videos from my phone to my Mac) so I had to work around it; luckily, I just tried the simplest way I could think of and was surprised that it worked even better than my old way of uploading videos. One thing that was really fun about the project was that I got to film myself setting up and playing the guitar, which is something I do just about every day, so I actually got joy out of being able to artistically capture an artistic hobby that I love. Editing the videos in iMovie took a while but was not as miserable as it seemed, I think mostly because I enjoyed what I was getting to edit.
5. I do think I have a basic understanding of shooting videos on my phone and using iMovie. Using the phone to shoot videos is easy as long as I have the idea in my mind. If I can think of the shot I want to get in my head first, using my phone to express this is usually the easy part. IMovie is sometimes a laggy, slow interface that can be frustrating to work with, but I've used this program for probably hundreds of videos and films throughout my life, so I'm fairly competent in using iMovie.]]> 2022-06-13 04:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mmaledon231/l3ru0bz0o86nroyz/wish/2219048958