Vintage Education Videos is one of the assignments I chose to do.  This assignment consisted of creating an educational, or how to video the way they did it in the 50′s.   I decided to do a video on how to make tea!  I did this because I love drinking eat.  Preferably chamomile or green tea.  I find it really relaxing and love the warmth it brings, specially on cold fall days.  By the time I made this video I was basically a pro at iMovies.

I decided to film myself making tea.  I recorded the video on my iPhone.  Although it doesn’t have the best quality, it didn’t really matter since videos from the 50′s were kind of terrible.  The bad thing about it was that there was no way to pause the video on my phone while it was recording, so I ended up recording a 5 minute long video on how to make tea.  The video was so long because I was still recording while the water was heating up in the microwave and that took forever!!  After recording such thing, it was a hassle emailing it to myself to download it on my computer, so I had to go a different route.  I actually ended up importing my video to my iPhoto (which I had never done) and getting it on my computer that way.  I thought the hard part was over after that, but i was mistaking!  The video was so long that not only did it take forever for iMovie to create thumbnails for it, but there was extensive editing to get done.

Educational videos from the 50′s are usually quick and to the point, so I ended up deleting about 4 minutes from the original video.  Every time I would cut out scenes it made small individual clips within iMovie, so I had ended up with about 16 individual clips.  For each one I had to go in and manually turn off the original volume, and change the setting to black and white.  This was a long process, but adding the music was much quicker since I could do it to the whole thing rather than the individual parts.  After the video was done, I was not happy with it.  I felt like it was missing something.  I tried changing the scene from black and white to the “aged film” effect, but it had color to it and it didn’t look right.  I tried using both the black and white, and the aged film to make it better but was only able to use one at a time.

Since it was impossible to use two effects at the same time, I decided to leave the movie as black and white with the song Merry Go playing on the background.  I exported the file into my desktop and imported it again into iMovie.  Doing this created one clip instead of the 16 original ones I already had.  This allowed me to change the effect on the film (with black and white effect) to aged, which resulted in me having the best of both worlds!  :)

Worth 5 stars