Week 8 Blog 1

Today we began editing our video. We had a couple of problems, but nothing that we couldn't fix with a simple google search or with a little help from the 'Help' menu in iMovie. The first problem was that the photos were set on 'Ken Burns', which automatically, and slowly zoomed up on every photo which wasn't very visually appealing considering each photo was timed for 0.5 seconds in length. It was a bit like motion sickness. I then 'trouble-shooted' the problem by googling how to stop it from happening. We found an answer on Yahoo Answers which explained the 'Ken Burns' effect and how to get rid of it. 

Our other issue was the music. Finding the perfect song was not hard, we decided to use Port O'Brian's song 'I Woke Up Today', which is an upbeat song that suits the mood of the film as it is all a bit of fun - although we have to find our way around copyright infringements. At the moment we're planning to just use the song and see if we can get away with it. I've uploaded videos to YouTube years ago using songs that I didn't create and they are still online today so I don't think we should have a problem. If we do, Jess has recently made a song in one of her classes so I'm sure we'll use that. It's no Port O'Brian, but who knows - we may be launching Jess into the music industry if we have to use it. Finally we inserted the credits, which run over the final image of our clip before it fades to black and silence and our video is complete.