Videos

                I enjoyed all of the youtube videos that we watched in preparation for the short film we will be making at the end of the semester. Being a future Film and Media Studies (IDS) major, I am greatly looking forward to this assignment and think it will be a great way to integrate technology into our studies. I liked the mixture of videos that we watched. Some were funny, some were serious, and others mixed the two. I am hoping to do a video that mixes both as well. One of my favorite youtube videos is one called “Facebook in real life” and it is a satirical take on Facebook and many aspects of it such as the people who typically requests you as a friend, the gifts applications (where you can send your friends virtual gifts), the poke feature, Farmville, friend suggestions, and more. It is a hilarious and memorable video that has always stuck with me. I would like to aim to make a video in the same sort of style by taking parts of a social networking site and exaggerating them for comic effect. Seeing as though our class videos only have to be 2 minutes long, this should be fairly simple and only requires a few features to be exaggerated. I have an HD Sony video camera so I think I will use that to shoot the video and I will probably edit it with Windows Movie Maker which is free software for windows based computers (I have a Dell) that I have been using to edit various projects for a number of years. I like it a lot because of it’s simple user interface and wide range of tools. I look forward to seeing the videos that all of the other groups produce and I think it will be a great way to end the class.