So I finally finished this video –
This was kind of a daunting undertaking for me. I took several hours to do this, not counting the time spent taking the film.
I only used my iPhone 3G and my MacBook (3 years old). It wasn’t challenging, really. Just time-consuming. I’m also not that great at editing for length. I needed to make some deeper cuts – not all of this needs to be here. It could have easily been 5 minutes long.
I like some of the features of using iMovie (the Mac application that I used to edit the film clips from my phone). But sometimes it feels like all videos made with iMovie look the same. So, I’ll be looking for other tools I can use, perhaps on my home PC.
As far as the story itself goes, I’ve been frustrated by the fact that these rabbits (I don’t know for sure how many there are) are attacking my plants. I thought that telling this story – with the gross smells, some of the more vivid and violent details, and the variety of visual details for analysis – would be an interesting and useful text for classroom use.
I don’t know how much money these bunnies have cost me over the past two years, but I know that several of my trees and other plants have been damaged. I planted the two Hawthorne trees on either side of the house hoping that they would blossom in a few years. Now, they’re ugly little sticks. And it seems like every time they grow, the bunnies swoop down like some kind of bully and break them down to little sticks again.
Anyway, it was fun to make the video. My son enjoyed being the cameraman. My daughter wanted to play a bigger role in the video, but I wasn’t able to work that in. Maybe next time.
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