Blog Post #31- iMovie Practice

 Since I made the decision of using iMovie to edit my film I realized that I need to do some more practice in iMovie before I film because it has been a long period of time since I have last used iMovie. 

To test out iMovie, I recorded a short video in a POV shot of myself doing a math problem and put it into iMovie for the purpose of putting score over the video that has a casual vibe for the purpose of making the audience feel like this is a normal part of the characters life. The first clip without the usage of iMovie shows the individual doing math in a quiet environment but it doesn't really invoke any emotion to the audience because of the lack of sound presence in the clip. Using iMovie, I scrolled through their soundtracks offered and picked on that I thought sounded very day to day and casual. As seen in the clip provided, this editing done on iMovie invokes an emotion of familiarity and casualness to the audience and it shows the audience that homework is one of the many things that occurs frequently within the characters life. 

Another test I thought of trying out in iMovie was a fade to black transition. I decided to test the usage of this to see how well this could be used to portray someone falling asleep. In iMovie, I put in the clip of the individual in a POV shot putting their head down and then I used a fade transition with a black screen after it to mimic the effect of what it looks like when someone is closing their eyes. iMovie transitions allowed to portray this in a way that looks realistic to the audience because of the features of iMovie so having the knowledge of how to use these transitions will be helpful when I am editing my final project.

After testing certain features of iMovie, I have refreshed some of the ways on how to edit using the software in my mind and I will make sure to take these tests into consideration in finding out how to edit certain scenes within my film to make it have the highest quality possible.