Reflection Week 3 (MovieMaker)

This week, our class was given a task to create a short movie clip on anything related to the teaching of English. In other words, we were to create a multimedia teaching tool that is both interesting and educational.

Our group (me, Suk Hua, Xin Txin, Ilanggo & Leon), came up with one which focuses on 'Poetry Recital'.

After a series of discussion, we decided to choose to select this particular topic as we felt that it would be quite different from others; and since all of us have good basics in both theory and application (recital), we went ahead with it.

For my part, I would be concentrating on the Introduction, and Voice Control.

Firstly, I came up with a rough script. Then, after polishing it (and after several attempts), I recorded my voice to be later inserted in the video.

To make life easier, I divided my narrations into two sections; the first half consisting of the Introduction to Poetry Recital, and the other half moved on to Voice & Voice Control Exercise.

Then came the video part. This was more time-consuming as quite some research needed to be done. After extracting the main points, I designed PowerPoint slides - by inserting the main points, adding pictures, and designing the background and fonts respectively.

For this project, we used Windows MovieMaker, which again, is quite user-friendly. It is a bit similar to PowerPoint, especially the Transitions and Animations. Then came the next headache - inserting the PowerPoint slides into MovieMaker.

The first real trouble happened when I found out that I couldn't copy-and-paste the slides to MovieMaker! After several failed attempts, I resorted to designing a template inside MovieMaker itself. However, the graphic options are not as rich as PowerPoint, which is also something that I'm more familiar with.

So, moving on to Plan C. This was what I did:

1. First of all, I copied the PowerPoint slides one at a time.

2. Then, I pasted it in Paint. 

3. I saved the image and numbered it for easy reference and insertion.

4. Lastly, from the 'Tasks" bar, I imported the pictures to the current project.

Whee! However, the task is far from over. After a series of editing (transitions, animations, adding subtitles), I added in my previous recording (Import audio/music). This part was also time-consuming as I needed to synchronise my voice to the video length (timing).

So, after saving everything, I sent my video clip section over to Suk Hua, who did a perfect job of combining all our video clips...

So...are you ready...?! (drum rolls please....) Presenting: "Poetry Recital" by Doris Chelam Kasturi, Ting Suk Hua, Chong Xin Txin, Ilanggo Kanan, and Leon Lennie Lening...!

enjoy ~