“Calling all Explorers”

This past week, I spent time in Lake Tahoe (The California Side) with my boyfriend and his family. Lake Tahoe has endless trails and outdoor activities. One of the video assignments was to explore outside in any way. I went on a 9 mile hike, 9,000 feet in elevation, and completely vertical. This to me, seemed like the perfect opportunity to document the great outdoors. However, I was struggling so hard to not fall over and hallucinate from lack of oxygen that I filmed on the hike down the mountain instead.

This was filmed entirely on my iphone 4 … oh how technology is advancing. I also incorporated pictures to replace video segments that were too shaky or blurry because of my (lack) of filming abilities. I used still shots that I took on the hike to make a smoother transition from film to stills.

I used iMovie to edit this video.

screen shot 1 © by katherinekd101

This is how it started out before any editing took place. I imported my video and from there edited away any portions of the video I didn’t want in the final piece. After completing this, I dragged the pieces of video I wanted into the top left hand box that says “drag media here”.

Screen Shot2 © by katherinekd101 

If I have

learned one thing from video week is that its all trial and error, edit then reedit then maybe edit again. The first time you put something together is highly unlikely that it is your final product. For the background song I originally used “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas. If you have time to listen to you it, you will understand why I didn’t use this song for my final project. It’s sad and discusses that eventually we will all be dust in the wind. Maybe a little too sad for a video that is exploring the beautiful outdoors of Lake Tahoe on a dry warm day.

Screen Shot 3 © by katherinekd101

In the end I chose the song “Knee Deep” by Zac Brown Band. It’s one of my favorite songs because of the mood. The song is upbeat and talks about living a carefree life, outdoors. To transition from film to still image I played with different styles of a quick transition pattern. The first one I worked with was “dissolving” but in the end decided to use the “door” pattern. In my opinion it looked cleaner.

Finally I included text for the credits and the title. One thing that I still couldn’t figure out with iMovie is how to make the credits go slower. I’m hoping to figure this out in my next video.

Enjoy