Editing Assignments
Submitting your video for a grade:
After you have saved the final version in Windows Movie Maker, you will have a big WMV file. Probably 10-20 MB.
RENAME the WMV file to your name (last name or first name, doesn't matter).
Copy ONLY that one WMV file into the HOMEWORK folder on the L: drive. Do it ONLY ONCE, please!
Links to Windows Movie Maker tutorials:
- Blog post about getting started and troubleshooting
- Make Internet TV: Intro to editing with WMM
- Capturing video
- Trim your clips
- Import an audio track
- Add narration
- More WMM tutorials
Editing 1
For your first editing work, you will edit the footage you shot for the Shooting 1 exercise, using Windows Movie Maker. Do NOT do anything with audio or titles or effects. I want only straight cuts between the shots.
Include at least seven different shots.
Final length: 30 to 60 seconds. This is firm.
Each shot should last about 3 to 6 seconds. Let the activity in the shot tell you how long it should be. An unmoving close-up of a face for 6 seconds will be VERY BORING.
Here is an example: Painter
Grading
- 3 points: Finished video meets all the criteria given above.
- 2 points: All of your shots start and stop cleanly. No camera movement, and also, the motion of the subject is not interrupted or cut off abruptly.
Total: 5 points
Editing 2
New! There are two (2) audio handouts on the L: drive for you! Both concern how to work with audio in WMM.
Using the video you shot for the Shooting 2 exercise (additional footage may be used too) AND the script you wrote for the Textbook 2 exercise, create a final video that will be uploaded to the Web.
- This video must tell a story.
- It must be journalistically accurate in every way.
- It must include at least one interview.
- It may include a voiceover narration, but this will depend on your story.
- It must demonstrate good use of B-roll footage that you shot yourself.
Length: Between 2 min. and 2 min. 30 sec. This is firm.
Grading
- 5 points: Finished video meets all the criteria given above.
- 3 points: Audio quality is good.
- 2 points: All of your shots start and stop cleanly. Camera movement, if any, is very smooth. Tripod used when appropriate.
Total: 10 points
