Final project Presentation

Doing the fourth podcast I really tried to work on the light and audio.
IN some cases I had to low the audio level in Imovie to eliminate some background noise. I think light was really good this time, I used two lamps to lighten my face a little bit.

I also tried to work with having slides and pictures on top of the prerecorded video. It was interesting to work this way. In general, I feel much more comfortable working with the Imovie this time. It becomes more pleasant experience!!!!

Photography principles

Doing the third podcast, I was trying to work more with the audio, i.e. extracting the audio. Also I used primarily photographs. It was a definitely interesting experience! After wathing the final video, I realized that the voice in different clips varies, in some it is high, in others it is low. It was my first experience with the voice over. Next time I must have the mic at the same distance and try to keep the same "volume" of the voice. Also, I noticed that the video' time is longer than the actual clip, I believe some clips were not deleted when I was compressing the video :((
For the final project I will try to integrate working with voice over and video.

Experience with the second podcast

It was for sure easier than the first podcast! This time I tried to play with the camera and see if I can improve shooting techniques by changing camera angles, and by shooting the moving object. Right now I just know some basic things about the shooting process. Watching other students' work really helps a lot. You can see how the things that could be done better, so that develops your own skills! I think, in general, this is a very useful learning experience.

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My experience about first podcast

what I learned:

I can tell that I learned a lot doing this assignment, first, the way to use the camera. Second, how to shoot. That was a completely new experience, although I did try to shoot before, but only now I realized how many mistakes I did before (e.g. choosing the scene, background). Understanding such things as not shooting while zooming, shooting for editing, not having extremely long shots (in time sense).

I guess the reading of the video material helped me a lot to understand basic rules. Nevertheless I did a lot while shooting for his project: things like - light. In some shots I did not realize how light can change the scene entirely, I saw it only when I was working in the Imovie.

I found several functions in Imovie as very useful: being able to extract the sound from the clip and also being able to add audio to the clips (with music it is so much better).

Now I feel much more comfortable working with Imovie, I am sure that after completing few more projects my work will improve tremendously.

Work on this first project also motivated me to look more in depth into how the video has to be shot, as well as into basic rules of video and photo images.

In conclusion, I would say that it was a great learning experience - it moved me beyond my comfortable zone - just writing papers - and provided me with an opportunity to explore something entirely new!

Thank you very much for instructions and guidance!