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For one of our assignments this week we had to do a tutorial for an assignment we had already created. I chose to do the Ebert’s Analysis assignment. I really enjoyed this assignment, and it could be difficult to know how to do without any background information.

I had already made a tutorial for ClipGrab for an assignment, so this one was a piece of cake!

All I did was set up a screen recording, talk in my head to know what I would say during my voiceover, save it, edit it, put in a voice recording, and upload it to youtube. I chose to only add music to the ending titles because I experimented around with the beginning title. I accidentally found out that you can put it over the actual video. I’m glad I stumbled across this technique, and definitely will use this in more assignments!

I really like making tutorials. I came into this class not knowing much about editing and softwares, and now, after many struggles, I’ve gotten the hang of it! It’s really amazing to see how much I have learned this semester, and put it to the test.

I know people who are just starting out in the class, or still have not grasped things can get quite discouraged. Some of the simplest things to us are quite hard for other people. I love being able to help anyone who is struggling.

Check out the tutorial here:

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My first assignment bank caught my eye. I was scrolling through them and I realized that this one was quite the same as one from last week. I really enjoyed analyzing a scene from a movie last week, so I decided to do it again… but add a twist. I decided to do Amelie, as this relates to my secret agent, and thus the course. I said last week how her name was inspired by the movie Amelie.

My twist was that instead of running through every single thing we learned about cinematography, I would just focus on one thing. That thing being camera angles.

I felt like this scene had so many great camera angles. I chose to do the same movie this week because of this.

To start out the process I went to youtube to find my clip, copied the URL into clip grab, and dragged the converted video into iMovie. From there I just did a voice over and muted the video. Then I shared it to youtube.

I didn’t really feel the need to add any music to this video. In the syllabus it says to start doing this, but I felt like it would take away from the video.

Here is the screenshot of my video editing process:

Here is my video:

Credits to YouTube, iMovie, and Clip Grab

How it All Came to Be

Here, I walk you through making a movie-analysis video using Roger Ebert’s method from his article How to Read a Movie. I used this Batman clip for my analysis, starting at 23:38.