Creating a Youtube video may seem glamorous, but it involves a lot of work. It consists of coming up with a theme, editing, and music. Creating a movie and trailer was a great experience. Learning how to create and edit video is something that Asiyah would have never thought to do on her own. Asiyah used iMovie to create her file and it was easy. She enjoyed putting the clips together into a storyline that flowed. She feels that she used a unique theme, she titled it Covid Dream because this reality still doesn’t seem real. Hopefully like the movie this dream ends.
A few complications arose with the production of this project. When Asiyah was trying to come up with a creative theme for my movie. She wanted to come up with something that would allow viewers to understand what every day is like for me. Another difficulty was how to put the clips together. She didn’t have a lot of experience with iMovie or Adobe Premiere. She found videos on how to edit on youtube and used that as a guide for creating my movie. With the help of those videos, she learned how to use transitional edits. Asiyah also learned how to add music to the movie. Another challenging part of making a video on iMovie was figuring out how to properly convert the video into a file that could post on Youtube. She had to convert the movie too MOV. After discovering how to do it, it became easy. Most of this project was about learning new techniques.
Using video as a way to communicate can be really effective. Instead of telling your audience with words what you're trying to convey, it can be shown. In Asiyah's movie “Covid Dream,” she didn’t use any dialog. She showed herself sleeping and used an edit to let the audience know it was a dream. At the end of the movie, She woke up and the music changed. She used that technique in case the edit into the dream wasn’t clear to the audience. Another way she communicated with video is with the glove. Throughout the movie she showed herself using a glove to open the door, get her ticket, hold on to the rail. That may communicate to the viewer that she is trying to stay safe during the pandemic. Another way she used video to communicate was cleaning the doorknobs.
In my movie, Asiyah showed herself sleeping and used an edit that would interpret that it’s a dream. She show ed herself going down the stairs and onto her computer to go to class. She used her hand being in a glove as a theme. Before Covid, we wouldn’t wear gloves in our everyday life. In her movie, there are clips where she is wearing gloves to protect myself. She used them to open the door, pretend to hold the rail and to give and receive the ticket from the conductor. Another technique she used to interpret a Covid student was showing the 6ft separation at the train station. Before Covid, we weren’t instructed to stay 6ft apart from each other and now we are. Signs are showing that we have to stay 6ft apart to stop the spread of the virus. She also showed the city and some people wearing a mask and others not. This is a vital part of living in a pandemic. Some people feel that wearing a mask is unnecessary and don’t wear it.
The public nature of the content of this video did not seem to affect the movie theme, it enhanced it. Since the theme was “quarantine student,”Asiyah showed myself learning from home, social distancing, temperature checks, and wearing gloves. She showed some people wearing a mask and some not wearing masks. The public nature also shows why we're still in quarantine.
Since the assignment was to show what the quarantine experience is like as a student, the movie may not be exciting. Asiyah does the same things every day, and it's boring. She wanted to challenge herself and make an interesting movie out of my repetitive life. With the help of editing and music its easy to bring life into a movie. The music embarked excitement. The music made the movie more interesting to watch. Asiyah enjoyed creating this movie. She thinks she did a good job with coming up with a theme that made sense for a short film. Asiyah enjoyed creating this movie and now she has some knowledge on how to edit videos.
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