Technical Theatre 14

Today we uploaded our footage onto the computer and began the process of editing it to make our music video.
It was quite a long process to upload the videos from my phone, because for some reason the phone and the computer wouldn't sync together. Dominic came in to help us out and he showed us how to upload the videos to the larger apple computer:

1. Plug my phone into the computer with the USB cable.
2. Select the files from my camera roll we wanted to use and import them into iphoto.
3. Copy the files from iphoto onto the desktop. 
4. Open imovie and create a new project, which we named "Pompeii".
5. In imovie, select "file > import videos", then select from desktop folder and select our videos. 
6. They then upload into our project on imovie. 

After we had finally managed to get our footage onto imovie (thank goodness), we watched a short instruction video on how to use imovie. 

We quickly downloaded our song "Pompeii" and uploaded it onto imovie.

Now it was time to create our music video, and these are the steps we used to select the clips we wanted, order them, and add the music track.

1. Drag the uploaded music from the event library into the project library.
2. Select the video you want to add from the event library.
3. Right click on it and select "copy".
4. Go up into the project library > right click > paste. 
5. Now you can trim the clip down in the project library to the length you want. To do this you right click on the piece of video, select "trim", then use the cutting tool at either end of the clip to cut out bits at the beginning and end you don't want, then select "done".
6. Then select the music track by clicking on it, and drag it along the whole length of the clip you have, so the music plays for the whole thing.
7. Repeat with all the footage you want to use in your final project. 

Because our project is a music video and there was already sound in our clips, we had to mute our footage so that only the song is heard. To do this we select the clip by left clicking on it and then click the little symbol of the speaker. This opens the audio controls on the clip and we turned the volume down to zero. 

We did a lot of cropping of clips today, and when we watched it back at the end it all flowed nicely, which is great to see. 

We had a proper laugh editing it today, because it was so funny watching our footage back. The time seemed to zoom by, and by the end of the session we had a total of about 1 minute of completely edited music video. 

It's looking really good now, I'm looking forward to completing it together over the next couple of weeks.