A Minor Setback for a Major Comeback

The process of creating this short video was more of an enjoyable learning experience for me rather than a typical college assignment. I used iMovie on my MacBook to construct my product which was completely new to me as it was the first time I had ever even opened the app. However, I found myself genuinely enjoying this process and assignment far more than any of our previous ones. 

Right off the bat, I had a few issues with the software as my imported videos and clips were not properly displaying the video during the editing process. After countless google searches in attempt to resolve the issue, I ended up figuring out myself that the cause of this issue was due to the type of importing I had used for each of these clips. I found that by airdropping the clips from my iPhone to my MacBook, it was causing the clips to not have video shown in iMovie, only the audio. To resolve this, I emailed the clips to myself from my iPhone and then opened and imported them to my MacBook from there. To my luck, it finally worked and I was able to learn something new!

Once I was able to successfully view all of my clips in iMovie, my editing process was ready to initiate. I never realized how many different transitions and audio/visual effects that were available to video editors. Playing around with many of them, I felt like a kid in a candy store. This part of the assignment is what I most enjoyed because as a consumer, you don’t really take these sorts of details into account. However, it is these details that make all the difference in the final product, and taking on the role of the media content producer illuminated that realization for me.

Collecting B-Roll was an easy part of the process for me due to the fact that I already had this film from when we were actually in our lockdown stages of quarantine. Every detail about my video is accurate as I sincerely committed my time during this period to improving my craft for the upcoming Spring soccer season. Evidently enough, it proved to be well worth the time as I have become a starter on our men’s soccer team and have helped us secure 1^st place in our conference entering the conference tournament this weekend. 

If I were to change anything relating to this assignment and how I went about the process of creating my short video, it would have been the software that I used to construct it. I wanted to use iMovie since I had never previously used it before and had it easily accessible to me through my MacBook. However, I would love the opportunity to recreate this video using Adobe Premiere Pro. I took an introductory AV class in high school where we spoke a bit about Premiere but never got to experience it firsthand. I can only imagine the vast range of special effects and tools that I would be able to utilize with this software now that I have experience in video editing!