My first video assignment for this week was the What Do Pets Think About? The assignment asked for us to create a video where the animal looks like it’s thinking, then narrate what they were thinking. I threw a little spin on this. I decided to narrate what my girlfriend’s dog was thinking, but I did it while I was playing with him. My girlfriend SWEARS that he is a smart dog…but I beg to differ. I think he’s gotten goofy with old age(and may be a little slow). So although I pick on him, he is a sweet dog…and perfect for my narration of what he was thinking about!

I chose to do this video because I thought it would be a good way to ease into video editing. The programs I used were Windows Movie Maker(WMM) and Audacity. I also had to borrow my girlfriend’s video camera…and her dog…and her house…WOW, am I a mooch? I guess it’s a fair tradeoff because she loves reading my blog and seeing what I create Anyways, I took a couple videos of her dog, Moe, doing random things. I then uploaded the video to my computer and opened them right into WMM. In WMM I began by editing the video volume and turned it all the way down so I could do my voiceovers. I don’t know if it was possible to record audio in WMM, but I knew Audacity could, so I went with what I knew best. I recorded my audio in Audacity, and made sure it went along with the video. Exported my audio as an MP3 and then clicked the add song feature in WMM. BAM, my insight on what Moe is thinking! I also found that it was fairly simple to create title slides and credit slides with WMM.