Thursday, February 28, 2008

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

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!