“Where are they now?” Assignment (2 Stars)

Okay, so this was my first video assignment, and boy, oh boy, was it hard! This baby took me so long to do, and only for 2 stars??? I’ve gots a long way to get to 16! Anyways, for this assignment, I decided to look into the future of the characters from Gossip Girl. Here’s what I came up with:

Lemme tell you, I spent so long on this little video clip! I think it’s because I’ve never used iMovie before on my computer, so I was trying to teach myself at the same time (I’m kinda stubborn when it comes to asking for help… hehe). Okay, so here are the steps for how I made this video:

Start with the GG opening scene. I knew I wanted to start my video with the classic GG opening scene, so I went on good ol’ Youtube, and found this clip:

I downloaded it with the help of PwnYouTube and was able to drag and drop it into my project area thingy (not sure what it’s called… work space? IDK)
Find pictures of people, edit them on Pixlr, and import them into iMovie. So, I googled around for images on the actual actors and actresses from Gossip Girl and researched to see what they were doing. I thought it would be funnier if I actually connected what the characters did in their futures with what the actors/actresses were doing now (since it is almost a year since the show ended). But I did still have some fun with it, by adding in jokes (like how Ed and Chase were together and how Taylor was a vampire. None of that is true… although I’m still not sure about Taylor, ha ha). After I found the photos and added text via Pixlr, I scratched my head for a little while trying to figure out how to put them on iMovie. After minutes of getting super angry at my computer, I succeed by just clicking the file and dragging and dropping it into iMovie. God, who knew it would be so simple?
Place credits at the end. I wanted to do this because 1. it was required, and 2. so I could give credit where credit was due (and also give myself credit since I’m egotistical like that ). I chose the scrolling credits from the options on iMovie, and then added in the text. Nothing too hard here.
Add music. I knew I wanted to add music during the parts where it was just pictures and credits. Why? It would be super lame and boring to the audience! I picked one of GG’s iconic songs that played pretty much during every scene of the show. It took me a while to find because I didn’t know the song name, but I eventually found it on YouTube. It’s called “Steps of The Met” by the Transcenders. Here’s the clip I used:

I simply downloaded it via PwnYouTube, opened it with MPEGStreamclip, took the audio and saved it as an m4a file, and opened it in iMovie. From there, I was able to make it so the audio only played during the photo scenes and the credits. Yay!