Video+Activity+1

=Video Activity 1=

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 * === I created my movie using Windows Movie Maker. All of my Movie Tasks were on the left hand side of the screen. I was able to drag and drop photos, effects, and audio at the bottom of the screen in the Storyboard or Timeline. This made this assignment fairly simple. My biggest challenge was not in completing the assignment itself but trying to think of something interesting to share. This assignment has forced me to reconsider the types of pictures I take. When going through my phone, camera, and Facebook albums to find nice pictures, I realized that they were mostly of me and my family and not actual things. I had originally created a movie entitled //Evolution of the Apple iPhone//. I thought it was a great idea until I watched the movie and was completely bored and uninterested. Nevertheless, I quickly deleted that movie and began //A Bouquet of Flowers//. I love flowers so I choose to show different photos of flowers.  ===
 * === Once I opened Windows Movie Maker, I selected Tools->Titles and Credits -> Add Title at Beginning of Movie to add the movie title. I changed the font and background color. Initially, I could not figure out how to edit the text once I clicked done. So I would erase the slide and create a new one. I later realized that a quick way to edit the text was to double click on the slide in storyboard/timeline and the window to edit the text will appear.  ===
 * === After I created the title page, I imported all of the photos I wanted to use: Capture Movie-> Import Pictures. I was able to easily import all of my photos at the same time.  ===
 * === I then added video transitions: Edit Movie-> View Video Transitions. I played around with all of them as I could easily see samples in the preview window on the right side of the screen. I chose to use Shatter Right and Shatter In.  ===
 * === To add video effects, I selected Edit Movie->View Video Effects. I chose to use Ease In.  ===
 * === After watching the full preview, I felt that the pictures were changing too slowly so I wanted to decrease the time between the frames. This option was not in the Movie Tasks Menu and I had trouble figuring this out. After a Google search, I found the solution. //Go to the Tools tab, click on Options, and then click the Advanced tab.// The advanced tab had two options that seemed to be what I needed, Picture Duration and Transition Duration. I didn’t know which option was going to do exactly what I needed so I added pictures at the end of my movie and tested the both options. Picture duration was what I needed. I changed the duration from 5 seconds to 4. However, the changes did not take effect until I removed all of my pictures.  ===
 * === I added my audio with ease. I found a song that I liked, added the Fade Out effect in Audacity, and imported my new wav file in Movie Maker.  ===
 * === The new things that I learned were a result of me addressing my challenges.  ===