The Making of "Making Videos that Teach"

I really enjoyed this process, this made me realize how many different ways there are to convey what it is that you really want to say. I clearly wanted to use humor as my main educational tool, I am still not too sure how well I accomplished this, when comparing it some of the other movies. I was truly amazed at the quality of all of our videos, there was not I saw that i thought was anything less than great, if we all combined our skills we would be like one giant Quenten Tarantino

The creation process of "Making Videos that Teach" was a bit haphazard. I had a hard time visualizing what I wanted to do to convey my point. I ended up making the actual storyboard as I was making the film, this is just how my brain seems to work, I was never one to outline a paper before writing it. This clearly could of had some negative impacts, but what I did that corrected this possible mistake was write the script before hand so I could visualize the scene and know exactly what the point was I was trying to get across. I was lucky enough to have some help from my girlfriend Paige and roommate Tim when it came to camera angles and how to word the content. There are obviously some things I could have done better, the audio levels being the main thing, I though the visuals all came out well and helped get my points across in somewhat entertaining way. I was overwhelmed to say the least throughout this class to say the least but to know that I could make a movie that came out as good as it did in a couple of days makes me feel that I will only continue to improve my technological skills tenfold. No matter how disappointed and unhappy I was with this class at times I still got some much useful knowledge out of it and all of that knowledge will be easily passed on to my students.

If I knew by the end of this class I would have created my first blog, podcast, website, and movie I would of thought that you were absolutely insane. The amount of programs that I know consider myself fairly knowledgeable about is staggering, considering I did not know some of them even existed before this class. The movie making process was the culmination of it all I know feel as though I could mashup a bunch of historical film and make my own movie for a class lesson. I also feel like I know enough to pass on this movie making knowledge to my students so that they will be able to make their own movies both inside and outside the classroom. Making this film was the most fun I have had with a class in a long time.