Video Editing

Today was a really successful day for me! I am finally starting to feel as though the stop motion animation video that I have been working on is finally coming together. Using Imovie -which I find is a much more user friendly and easy to use program the Windows movie maker (the program I had originally been using)- I was able to start editing the individual still frames I had captured with my digital camera. I was able to change the number of frames each picture is shown for (each picture is now being used for 3 frames and the clip runs at just shy of 30 frames per second). The result is that the video plays as if there were 10 frames per second, which is almost perfect for the kind of filming I was doing.

I have started to add in editing techniques such as transitions and titles and the editing process, while time consuming is actually really rewarding. I think that this mode of creative thinking really allows the editor a lot of control and would be useful in a Language Arts class. I can imagine teaching rhetorical word choice and style by comparing it to this editing process. Choosing one technique over another can really change the way your audience views what you have created.  So not only is the filming a creative expression allowing for the individual interpretation of the director, but the editing process also gives students a chance to manipulate the viewer's perceptions as well.