Media Lab iMovie & Photoshop

This project was mostly taking existing media and exploring what that media could be used for by students. I took to trying to create a logo in Photoshop and then taking that logo and using it at the beginning of a video project. I kept the video project itself relatively simple because I wanted to focus on the ability to make the biggest result possible.

The most challenging thing about this (as tends to be common with technology) is the fact that all of the tools were ones that I have used in the past, but there has been several years since I used most of these projects. As a result, tools have changed and disappeared.

{Media Lab}

Reflection:

This part of my project had a few different aspects to it. First off, many of these tools I had used before - granted, it's been a few years so some of the features have changed location, icons, looks, and capabilities from what I originally learned the programs with. That being said, navigating around them was still within my realm of discovery. Because I knew the programs at hand, I decided to combine a couple of them. I would make a logo in Photoshop and insert it as part of the intro to my video in iMovie.

Not really knowing what I was going to do my movie on, but remembering that there was a vast collection of photos available to me, I decided to go that route. All of the photos in the above video are actual photos of actual family members from all sides of my family. While not particularly related to any particular section of history, this brief glimpse into my own family history might help students become curious about their own family histories. I was fortunate enough to grow up with a couple of amateur genealogists for parents, so I know quite a bit about my own ancestors. It's part of the reason I have so many photographs to work with. iMovie, with its built in Ken Burns effect makes build projects such as this one really easy, so this would easily be a tool students could use.