Digital Video Editing

There is so much to think about when considering making a video such as the basics, process, encoding and decoding, and DEAPR just to name a few.  When you make a movie you have to think about the basics: purpose, audience, length of time, and the style of the video.  There are some questions that need to be answered before you can start shooting your movie.  Questions such as will there be actors in the video?  Will there be images?  Or maybe voice over the images?  Is there some type of music that will help to set the mood of the movie?  Another question that needs to be answered is what types of shots you will use during the production.  Will you have close ups, wide, pan, medium, bust, or zoom?  I believe that in order to really understand how to create a great video you have to watch good and bad examples this is a part of the decoding process.  While designing or encoding you have to search for images, music, effects, transitions and recording voices or recording video clips.  All if these parts have to be imported into movie maker to create your video.  This entire process is considered the DEAPR process.  Once everything is imported into movie maker then publishing and revisions can begin.  

Last week my group made a video using music, slides from powerpoint and short video clips.  Everything is imported and sliced/pasted together to create our longer minute and a half movie.  It was great to work as a group on the encoding part of the process because everyone was allowed to play to their strengths.  Once everyone found their pieces of the "puzzle" and brought it together we were able to create one masterpiece.  It was definitely easier to edit our video in movie maker because we could pick up whole pieces of video or songs and move them to the place we wanted.  If we wanted to just cut a small part it was a matter of a few clicks and it was deleted.  I enjoyed "playing" around with the tool and then creating a product that I was proud to share with others.  I think that my students would also be excited to use this tool to assist them in sharing their new knowledge with others in the community.