So apparently, my day revolves around the chickens I’m looking after. At least, that’s what I learned doing this assignment. The first thing I do in the morning is open up their gate, the last thing I do is make sure they’re locked up safely for the night in the coop, and I do a lot of looking after them during the day.

After watching the example, I knew I had to try it out myself. The 60-second day vlog from the example was engaging in that it used a ton of quick cuts to give us an impression of someone’s day, as seen in the example. If you search on YouTube for more of these, you’ll find that they’re all very entertaining. There’s something interesting about getting only tiny bits of information about someone, but over a long span of time. Here’s the example provided with the prompt:

So, here’s my Saturday. It’s pretty typical for me: a morning workout, trip to the farmer’s market, hanging out outside, watching tv and reading, and eating eating eating. Oh, and a lot of chicken time. I hope you enjoy!

The Process:

This was my first time using iMovie, but I was impressed by how easy it was to use. Thanks, Apple, for another intuitive program. We love you!

I filmed everything on my iPhone. I connected to my computer’s USB drive, and opened iMovie.

Next, I clicked on my iPhone from the ‘Cameras’ menu on the left. You should see the videos/pictures from your iPhone displayed. Select the footage you want to edit, and select ‘Import’ on the bottom right.

Now that your footage has been imported, click ‘Create’ from the top menu.

Select the theme you would like to use. I chose ‘No Theme.’

It’s time to put your clips together. I made all mine exactly 1 second. Slide the orange bars on each clip to choose the part you want. The exact time of your selection will appear in the little gray box, pictured below.

Now, click inside that orange selection box you made, and drag the clip to your timeline below.

Repeat these steps. Drag your next clip to the timeline, and continue until complete:

To add an intro/outro, select the ‘Titles’ option from the bottom left. Choose the one you like best, and drag the clip onto your timeline the same way you added your video clips.

Do the same thing for the outro:

When you’re happy with your video, click ‘Share’ from the top menu, and choose the platform you wish to share it to. I chose YouTube, which will bring up this menu:

After you click ‘Next’ and log into your YouTube account, you’re all set. It takes a while to upload, so if you want to check on its progress click the clock icon in the top right:

Now, go to YouTube and watch your video!