Video #3

Wow, this was a week filled with learning for me! While I have made videos before using music and pictures, I have never before made any using actual video clips, and I learned this week why. It was a huge struggle! My first issue was coming up with a topic, and I honestly had NO clue what to do. I was searching online looking for ideas trying to figure out what I could teach. Every time I thought I had something that would work, I realized that it would work much better with still photos, and wouldn’t look so great using actual video. So, I kept thinking, asking my friends and family, and turning to colleagues for their ideas as well. In the end, time just got the best of me, and I had to resort to making a video on something that wasn’t very exciting at all, and actually seemed totally boring. But it was something I could do, as I had my niece and nephew willing to be videotaped for the project. So I just decided that for this week, I would have to stick with teaching about how to do the laundry.

The actual taping process was tricky as I had no idea what I would need, want to use, or end up using in the final product. I tried to come up with a basic script before hand, with the concepts I wanted to include in the text overlays, sort of like my own storyboard. Although it didn’t help my confusion during the video-taping part, I do think it gave me ideas of what I needed, so I would definitely do that again for any videos I’m making.

Update…I had this all ready to post, but then ended up running into even more issues just trying to get my video to upload! Although the last two videos I posted were uploaded with no problems at all, when I tried to do the same thing with this video, I kept getting an error message saying there was a problem uploading my video. It wouldn’t work! I went back and re-saved my movie, thinking maybe I had done something wrong and saved it as a wrong file type or something. Nope, that didn’t work either. So I tried using a different browser, as I know I’ve had to switch back and forth amongst three different browsers all semester long. But nope, that wasn’t working either. Finally, I just did the same thing, trying to add the video, using Firefox, and it seemed to be working. At least it didn’t give me the error message right away. So…I waited…and waited…just hoping that it would actually upload and I could post this video already! After ten minutes, I got the same error message.

Sooo…I was back to square one. I see now why some people shy away from technology. It’s usually in those last couple steps that things seem to fall apart, and you can’t finalize the project. So, I went back to my movie maker file, and decided to try saving it under a different choice. I tried using the Windows Phone, Small choice, hoping that my video would just upload to my blog!!! After ten more minutes of waiting while trying to post…I finally got the message saying that the video was processing! Yes, the video might be tiny, and very hard to see, but if it will show up on my blog, then at this point, I am just going to accept it and be happy!!! And success…finally! I will add this reflection to the video post, and hope that it will post correctly. Wow, this really was a LONG week!!!