Video Reaction Paper

I thought this project was difficult because, I work nights and it was hard to find a time when everyone could get together. With my odd work schedule more planning was involved with shooting my clips that took place outside. When it came to the video and the computer I got frustrated because I don't know any thing about apple computers but once I started getting use to the video editing techniques it got a little easier. I'm still having a hard time trying to save it, there are just so many steps. In the process of editing I found a clip I wanted to re-shoot, I couldn't figure out how to move the re-shot clip with the more complete part of my profile video. Also during the editing process my clips kept resting themselves and the two pictures were not matching up. I took a bunch of small videos and then tried to combine them into one. That will be the last time I ever do that.

I also had a hard time with the audio for my movie clip. The song showed up in the library but, I was unable to click on it. The audio to my video is REM's “Its the end of the world as we know it”. I thought the song was appropriate because it is my belief that one day man will pollute the earth so bad it will no longer be liveable.

Using a video instead of writing to communicate leaves the message a little bit more open to interpretation. While writing makes the point more clear, using a video is more creative making people think about it more. I think videos are more influential than pictures in getting a point across because, you get the full context instead of just an image.

Viemo and youtube are both sites for viewing and uploading videos. Youtube at a glance seams to be more geared toward entertainment. Vimeo is more of a professional or a site a family would use to share videos through. Youtube is free to use. Viemo is free to use but you can get a membership for a yearly fee. Youtube also offers free movies from their site, viemo does not.

Both youtube and viemo allow people to share videos with other people who are on your contact lists. You can like both of the websites twitter and facebook, as well as fallowing the company on their own page. Both sites suggest video content you you to watch. Viemo and youtube both show how long the video is and how many people liked the video.

I think its great that there is a family friendly site where they can keep in-touch through pictures. I love youtube because you can watch music videos. They both also give you an option to watch videos at a later time.