Video clips and movies can be powerful teaching tools when they are selected and implemented effectively. Is their content clear, organized and linear in its logic?
Tetris, a new film about an iconic board game, marks Hollywood’s latest foray into telling iconic product stories and their creators through films.
1. iMovie
Apple’s free video editor iMovie provides an ideal starting point for editing movies on Mac, iPhone or iPad devices. Packed with themes and styles to get started quickly and effortlessly move projects across platforms using iCloud storage – many people find iMovie all they ever need for editing home videos to share with friends while some use it to learn editing before transitioning onto more professional software like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro.
iMovie allows you to quickly import multiple files at the same time, saving time from uploading each individual one one at a time. Simply click „Import Media” in the left panel to search through your computer files for ones you want, select them, and they’ll appear automatically in your timeline.
One of the more intriguing features in iMovie is its basic color-grading functionality. Utilizing sliders, users can modify saturation and brightness as well as warmth or coolness of colors within video clips; depending on personal taste, results may range from subtle to dramatic effects.
iMovie provides another unique feature by enabling you to record audio directly over video files. Pressing either of the play or pause buttons turns them red for recording purposes, and your mouse cursor becomes a record button when recording narration begins or ends.
iMovie provides an array of video transitions that can be added between clips. These translucent arrows allow you to scroll back and forth across your timeline to browse options before selecting and dropping one onto the timeline between two video clips.
2. Magic Movie
Apple’s free iMovie app got even better this week with an update that brought with it Magic Movie, an automated feature which automatically creates custom videos with titles and music. Similar to Memories found within its Photos app or even long-defunct Quik montages maker software, but more customizable, Magic Movie helps users produce videos with titles and music automatically created based on your selected parameters.
Magic Movie begins by selecting an album or collection of photos and clips from iCloud libraries of users, then instantly identifies and assembles only the best content into a polished movie complete with music, transitions and effects. When finished, users can share it via messages, Email or social media; users may further personalize Magic Movie by rearrange/delete clips using its simple shot list; adding soundtrack from iTunes purchases/GarageBand or Files App audio files as well as customizing or adding other sources into its soundtrack list; making any necessary tweaks!
Magic Movie allows them to choose from 20 styles for their Magic Movie, each offering animations and soundtracks that work in tandem. Furthermore, they can edit title and transitions, select fonts and filters for music selections, as well as customizing their color palette of the entire film.
Professional filmmakers might not find this feature particularly useful, but for anyone wanting to quickly put together a movie for friends and family without extensive editing needs this can be an excellent tool. It saves them the trouble of compiling clips into finished films while providing them with an opportunity to show what their cameras can do without spending hours and hours editing more complex edits – an easier and faster way of getting started in filmmaking!
3. Storyboards
Storyboards are an essential element of video production for many reasons. They help plan out your video, organize ideas, and convey your vision to everyone working on it with you. Furthermore, storyboards make editing simpler so it matches up with what was initially envisioned for it.
Storyboards are thumbnail images that outline the sequence of events in your video, with each thumbnail featuring descriptions, sketches, notes, arrows and/or arrowheads that symbolize camera movements, action or dialogue. Storyboard programs or drawing them by hand can help create storyboards; some programs can automatically animate your storyboards while others provide pre-drawn elements suitable for specific parts of the video.
Storyboards may take more time to create than full scripts; however, their usage will save both time and energy during editing your video. By creating one ahead of time and adhering to it closely, storyboards allow filmmakers to avoid shooting without an effective plan in mind and produce polished, professional-looking final products.
Keep in mind that storyboarding doesn’t have to be perfect; its purpose is simply to organize your ideas on paper. Stick figures may work just as well if drawing takes too much time for you. Although details should always be added if possible.
When filming an action scene that requires physical movement, such as a fight scene, it may be helpful to include notes regarding character positions, prop placement and space allowance for actors in each shot. You could also add specific instructions about camera angles and lighting if necessary.
4. iPhoto
Apple’s iLife software suite includes an excellent photo management program called iPhoto that offers some handy features for organizing images by date or event, editing photos and editing video as well. Furthermore, this versatile image editor offers numerous special effects, such as framing with an ink wash effect or adding duotone shading with varied shades of black and white images.
If you import a movie into iPhoto, its first frame appears alongside thumbnails of any still images it contains in your library and thumbnails of any still images it contains in its preview window, just as a photo would. Furthermore, iPhoto can play the file at full size with playback being visible as shown by Figure 1-9 in addition to being capable of showing its total running time as seen by viewing Figure 1-9 as well as GIF support (see Chapter 10). Essentially nothing additional can be accomplished with movies than what can be accomplished using QuickTime Player in terms of storage, as neither product does the other can.
5. Movie & Chill
Experience one of these relaxing movies this weekend on Hulu or Amazon Prime. Featuring minimal drama, action, or suspense – they make for the perfect way to unwind on a relaxing movie night at home with your besties on the couch!
Howard Phillip Lovecraft’s disturbing, disquieting tales will delight those looking for an unnerved thriller experience, yet this adaptation fails miserably in translating 19th century lore to modern sensibilities. While it attempts to blend incest, the occult, racism and some pretty strange stuff into its plot early on – though its kills don’t create much tension anyway due to being too brief and ineffectual to really generate any tension – audiences looking for that sort of stuff may want to skip this film!
On the audio commentary track of „Oz,” director Josh Hadley and special effects artist Hank Carlson provide a surprising level of honesty about its many shortcomings. From bar scenes where extras ran out of apple juice and accidentally consumed hard alcohol to the iconic Icicle spear that pierces through protagonist’s head – both issues which feature prominently – as well as production flaws like how characters’ heads get crushed by ceiling fans and needing a hose simulated blood loss during fight scenes; everything is discussed openly on both tracks!