I decided to do a follow-up assignment to one I did last week. I am answering all of the remaining questions for this assignment. It was a bit funnier this time around, but I think the person who created the original project did a fantastic job. Their acting skills were over the top =]

I did some thinking and talked to several people in the class about different programs everyone has been using for video editing. In the end, I decided to stick with Final Cut Pro, and now I have a better understanding of breaking up the clips and using the scissors tool. I cut the video into little segments and then added my snapshots.

My inspiration for this project was to complete the entire video, as well I wanted to stick with the efforts I had previously made learning this new program. I already have another idea brewing for the video assignments!

To complete this assignment, I thought it would be pretty funny to have the strangest, most out of touch and disconnected person I could think of answer the questions. This took me quite a while, specifically the editing portion as video editing is most certainly not a strong area of mine, so I only answered 5 questions instead of all 10. The video still ended up being almost 5 minutes long, so I figured any longer could get kind of boring, no matter how funny the responses. I tried to think extremely creatively and come up with things that others may not think of, providing an even more guttural laugh because of the shock factor. I used DaVinci Resolve to edit, though it felt clunky and annoying as a beginner. My biggest struggles came with trying to piece together the clips in the software, while actually creating the script for my responses was fun and came to me easily.

Though it could be edited better and it’s not as professional looking as I hoped it may turn out, it’s a step in the right direction when it comes to video editing. I also think that the comedic elements make up for the things the video is lacking.

I was asked to answer some questions about a fun video assignment for this assignment. I think I am getting the hang of editing videos slowly in Final Cut Pro, but I was initially lost with how to add a slide with text responses.

I realized, why not just make a PowerPoint with the questions and my responses, then take screenshots of the presentation and add that to the video. I must be lucky because this worked! I also figured out how to change the different tools to cut up the original video and insert my pieces.

There are so many parts to this week’s assignments. I am glad that I am figuring out how to use this program! I see some of the others assignments, and they are turning out well. Keep up all the hard work, DS106ers!

Also, on a sad note… The creator of the GIF has passed away, Stephen Wilhite. Below is his and the very first uploaded GIF.

For this assignment for 4 stars, I answered 5 apocalypse questions. I uploaded the video on youtube through my phone and it was that easy. The hardest part was writing down the questions from the video that I needed to answer.