Technical Theatre 15

Today in technical theatre we continued editing our video, but as Mo wasn't able to come in today, Elvina, Ryan and I worked on the video.
This week we were able to work a lot faster because we already know how to do the editing and stuff that we learnt last week.

We put in all the rest of the clips that we wanted to use using the same steps as last time, and it didn't take too long. But once we had used all of our available footage, we realised that we didn't have enough to cover the entire song! So frustrating, we really weren't sure what to do. We considered fading the song out, but at the point in the song where our footage finishes it sounds wrong fading out, so we eliminated that option.

We were desperately trying to think of a solution, when Ryan came up with a really cool idea. He said we could play the whole video in reverse at the end and then have it like it never happened. Elvina and I both loved this idea, and so we decided that was what we wanted to do.
But then, another obstacle arose.
Basically, we couldn't find anywhere the option to reverse clips or play them in rewind. We searched all over imovie and we couldn't find that effect anywhere. Annoyed but assuming we must have been missing something, we Googled it to find out how to do it. Our internet searches proved as fruitless as our searching around on imovie, though, we couldn't find any way to do it.
We suspected then that maybe you can't do it in version 9 of imovie, and Dominic came down and confirmed that for us. He said that in our next class he'll show us how to export our project onto another device and use different editing software to do the reverse effect, which is really nice of him.

So for now we've done all we can, and after we use the other software next class we get to start editing the completed video in terms of things like contrast and fades in and out.