Author: Rachel Bogan

How Do I Use iMovie?

Rachel Bogan

Do you need an iMovie refresher?

Below are two YouTube videos on how to use the latest version of iMovie. These videos explain how to: import media; add audio, video, pictures, and titles; edit video and audio; and export your creation. Looking for more advanced editing techniques? YouTube has a lot of great resource videos — just search for the latest version of iMovie to find them.

And here’s one more, though instead of being a video, it’s a step-by-step tutorial.

As usual, please let me know if I can help as you’re making your videos!

 

iMovie Basics 2017

iMovie 2017 – Full Tutorial for Beginners + General Overview

Exporting/Uploading your iMovie

Rachel Bogan

After you make your movie, you’ll want to share it with the class, via our class site. Below are some tips on how to export and upload your movies.

Exporting

Name your video and export it, saving it as a file to your computer, Dropbox, Google Drive, or some other cloud device. You can then upload it to YouTube, Vimeo, or some other platform, but always make sure you save your movie as a file before you do this.

To export, click the box with the arrow (in photo) and choose file:

 

export

 

You will get a box that looks like this [Ollie is my dog!]:

 

settings

 

Uploading

After you export your movie and save it, you’ll want to upload it to our class site. The best way to do this is to upload it to a video-sharing website like YouTube or Vimeo. Two helpful tutorials on how to do this are below:

Once your movie is on one of these sites, you can embed it into a post. Embedding is easy, just copy the video’s URL and drop it into the body of the post. For YouTube, you can click on the ‘share arrow’ to get a shortened URL to drop into your post.

Privacy options

  1. YouTube doesn’t allow a password option. Instead, you can make the movie private and then invite all of us to view the video or choose the unlisted option. ***Unlisted means that your video will not come up in search engine result or on your channel. Only those who know the link can view it. You can share the link with anyone, even those who do not have a YouTube account/username. This means that this video could still be seen by anyone, but only if they guess the link!
  2. Vimeo allows you to password protect your movie — let us know your password if you choose this route.

How to Use Images, Music, + Videos In Your Projects

Rachel Bogan

Do you want to add additional images, video clips, or sounds to your project?

I’ve created a quick guide about how to legally add other folks’ videos, music, and images to your Seminar 1 projects. If you’re using content someone else created, make sure the material is in the public domain (freely licensed) + marked for fair use/royalty free.

Here are some resources to help you get started:

Music

Most of the songs you probably like are copyrighted. In order to use them, you will need to obtain a license which is expensive/difficult to get for smaller projects, such as yours. You can use music in the public domain, but most songs here were published before 1922 — and maybe not what you’re looking for! Under fair use laws, you can use 30 seconds of a song, but 30-second blocks of songs may be prohibitive/not what you’re looking for.

Here are some places you can search for music:

Images

The same rules apply for images — you cannot use just any image you find online in your project. It’s relatively easy to find images that are licensed for public use. As with music, you MUST give credit where credit is due — usually a photo credit goes beneath the image as a caption, but in your videos you may want to place all your credits at the end.

Here are some places you can search for images:

Videos

The same basic rules that apply to images and music apply to videos. See the‘ Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video’ for more info and watch this video. Pay special attention to the “Best Practices” section below the video which explains the different ways of using copyrighted video clips and what the general rules are. To be safe, use 30 seconds or less of any copyrighted material, and **always credit your sources!**

How to attribute!

**Always credit your sources,** even if you are ‘borrowing’ them from the public domain or if they have a Creative Commons (CC) license. A good way to cite sources is to add them to your ‘credits’ page at the end of your video. For example, to attribute a song, add the song’s title, album, artist, and year of release. Molly Kleinman’s blog includes a helpful post on how to attribute a CC-licensed work as does this page on digccmixter.com.

Have questions? I’m here to help.

Here’s the CC video we watched in class today:

Teju Cole Assignment

Rachel Bogan

In his 2016 essay, “A Too-Perfect Picture,” Teju Cole praises Raghubir Singh as “a photographer [who] caters to life and not to some previous prejudice.” Read Cole’s essay and then, during our visit to the Metropolitan Opera (although not during the performance!), take two photographs: one that expresses your “previous prejudice” about opera and opera-goers, and another, inspired by Singh’s work, that expresses the reality of your experience. Post your photographs along with a discussion of your experience of The Extermination Angel and an explanation of which elements of Singh’s photographs influenced yours (300 words minimum).

Teju Cole’s essay is here.

Coco Fusco assignment

Rachel Bogan

Coco Fusco, in her essay “The Other History of Intercultural Performance” (1994), argues that “conscious methods may not necessarily transform unconscious structures of belief” and thus that art might be a better tool for fighting racism and other justice issues than what she calls “didactic” methods. Choose one artwork from the Museo del Barrio exhibits, observe it for around eight seconds (the average amount of time a museum visitor spends looking at a single work), and then write down your first impressions (100 words). Then, observe the artwork for ten minutes. Using Fusco’s essay as inspiration, write an analysis of what you discovered about this artwork after a long observation, especially which “unconscious structures of belief” it is attempting to transform.(400 words).

Coco Fusco essay is here.

Ode to the Sea assigment

Rachel Bogan

Choose a work on display in any museum or gallery space, or one of the works here (from an exhibit, Ode to the Sea, which will open 10/2 in the President’s Gallery, 6th Floor of Haaren Hall). One exhibit to think about visiting is just downstairs: http://shivagallery.org/portfolio/i-have-no-enemies-and-no-hatred-contemporary-chinese-dissident-art/. Imagine that the work you choose is illustrating a page in your forthcoming memoir, and write that page (500-word minimum).