Teledramatic Art Final, Spring 2012

From the first day of this class i learned that I underestimated filmmaking and editing as a whole. Even simply getting the video in the right format was difficult. In my third uploaded film, (my first edited film) you can see that I did not "Export Media" the correct way. The screen of is super tiny and it is difficult to see. Another thing I learned early on in the year was the importance of making clean in and out points. It is also important to know where where to make a good cut. In the same film, you can also tell that I did not choose good spots to cut the interviews. The clips that I used had people whose answers were long and lengthy. I obviously did not cut the clips in apropriate places. Later on, on the next few videos were practice showing that I knew how to do certain edits, titles, and cuts. Specifically, you can see that I learned how to do an instert, overlay, and extract edits. And after that you can also see the short videos where I learned how to add two different types of titles. One video that shows some of these edits and the titles is my cyberbullying video. In the video we have both types of titles; lower third, and the normal one that takes up the whole screen. Later in the year, addig titles became easier, and that was the least of my worries for films. The next big thing I learned was the special effects. At first, it was difficult to learn how to animate them because I got confused with the key frames and which one to press. I eventually learned how to do this and it is shown in the "Thomas the Train" video. Practically all that video is is animated pictures. This is one video where I am very proud of the animated effects. My final video is very short. 53 seconds isn't long enough to include everything i've learned. However I am proud of it because I got it done in a short amount of time, and I know in the beginning of the year, getting a short video done in 2 days would have difficult for me to finish. It does include some things I've learned such as an overlay, an animated title, rolling credits, and breaking up one lenghthy clip into two simple clips.