iMovie

Making the iMovie was a very challenging, yet rewarding task. I enjoyed learning how to use the application, although there was a lot of trial and error involved. When we had class time to work on this assignment, I did not have any pictures yet. I cut up little pieces of paper and wrote my captions on each one.

The following weekend, I went home and was able to find some expressive pictures that captured either my literacy or childhood well. I looked through my old pictures for a few hours and grabbed 60 or so that I could further sort through when I went back to school.

I'm still having doubts about my topic, though. I feel like everyone else's literacy narratives will be centered around their literacies that helped them to develop literacies like reading and writing. When the class discussed the project, pretty much everyone demonstrated this type of development as the focus for their papers.

So here I am, attempting to piece together my family, my literacy, and my captions. It is quite difficult to make a literary narrative into a movie. Or maybe it isn't. I am apprehensive about boundaries. It would have been much easier to simply make a photo collage or something without words. I am so picky about the words... I don't want to dumb down the photos. To me, the visual is the best part.

I just picked out the song as well. It definitely complements the photo/caption montage I have going on in the iMovie. I needed a song with a bouncy rhythm and a happy, gentle voice. It reminds me of childhood memories and self discovery. Then I found a lovely song on the piano, and I just HAD to include it in my presentation. It's at the last slide, so I hope it doesn't sound too choppy when the tunes switch.