“Video Essay” 5 Star Video assignment (“The Notebook”)

I must say that attempting this video essay assignment really put me at ease. The main reason is because I love to write! The second reason is because i didn’t have to worry about nor have the hassle of editing certain clips and trimming the movie since i searched on YouTube and found the movie that had every single one of my favorite clips in it! So this made the process for doing this assignment way easier. I chose to talk about the movie called “The Notebook” for my video essay because overall, I think this movie is just beautiful, creative, romantic, and the actors really played their part to the “T”. If you play the video above it shows you all of my favorite scenes from the movie. So, I’m going to start telling you guys about the first scene and why I think the director did a amazing job producing the movie, as well as writing the script. Well in this first scene I love the way the two characters are interacting with each other and how the guy is trying to break the girl out of her shell and make her dance with him because he knows she to has feelings for him just like he has feelings for her. So the way both characters portrayed the role of flirtation and trying to hide their lust and love for each other was terrific. Now, I wanna talk more about the movie in general from beginning to end….all of the scenes in the clips above all represent the true meaning of why the director chose to name the movie, “The Notebook” i would say. The reason for being so, is because if you watch all of the clips any type of audience can understand automatically how the title of the movie and the characters are in comparison with one another. For example, in the scene where the girl and the guy are in the rain and the girl stops to tell the guy why he hasn’t replied to any of her letters in the past.. well that relates to a “Notebook” because in a notebook you clearly have papers and chapters inside, and according to the movie and the characters both the girl and the guy are living in a kind of notebook or diary if you must call it since their true feelings for each other were hidden for years. So the director made a excellent comparison to the tile by making the script correlate back to the title i think. I love this movie so much and I recommend that everyone really sit down and watch it so that they can understand the script, and maybe even understand the true meaning of love. Thank you:)!

Tutorial: How to separate audio from video on iMovie

 

 

In this tutorial, I explain how I extracted the audio from the interview of Anthony Hopkins and put it together with appropriate video clips as a part of my video essay on Titus.  This part took the longest time to edit, and it turned out to be much more tedious than I had anticipated.  But I learned a lot, given the fact that I had no idea how to do any of this before starting this project. :)

 

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Film Essay – Curly Sue Tutorial

For this video essay assignment these are the steps i took to complete the assignemt:

I went to YouTube and in the search box i typed curly sue.. after doing so a bunch of different videos popped up. After carefully selecting the three videos that i wanted i selected them and then clicked on pwnyoutube (which enabled me to save the clips to my computer) after this i uploaded them to iMovie and carefully selected the parts that i wanted use because the clips that i chose were each about 10 or some minutes on their own. After carefully choosing all the clips i inserted some animations to easily transition into the next clip. I decided to leave the video playing in the background as i recorded my voice in the video..i used headphones to do this so that my voice would become elevated in the clip..

Video Essay

For this assignment you need to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What strikes you about them? What makes them good cinema? Is there a subtext at work in this film? In short, construct an essayistic commentary on the scenes as a narrator explaining to your audience what you find important about the scene, and why. What’s more, what do the details you have pinpointed say about the film more generally. For an excellent example, see Rob Ager’s analysis of space in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw