Literacy Video

I finished up my literacy video this weekend... and I must say, the process wasn't quite what I expected it to be. Honestly, I thought it would be as simple as finding some images to represent the big ideas of my narrative, throwing them on the storyboard, picking an appropriate song, and calling it good. But what I started to realize as I was working was that there is SO MUCH you can do with such a medium. I got the basic outline of the video done, and then I started thinking, well how can I make transitions between pictures to convey the right relationship? How can I add effects to the pictures to add to the message of the video? And then came text... originally I wasn't going to use text, I was going to let the images speak for themselves. Then I felt like it was lacking, so I decided to add text. But then I wondered, should I just come up with little short phrases that describe my literacies? No, I decided, I should take exact quotes from my literacy narrative, and use those. Sure they might sound funny out of context, but I thought I was able to find little pieces that were abstract and got the point across. Then music... what song should I use? Well I decided on that, but then my clips had to be trimmed to fi the length of the song... what a headache. And then, as I got it playing, wouldn't it be cool if I could have pictures move with the movements in the song? And then colors... text colors.. and fonts!! As my stream of conciousness here shows you, an hour-long project turned into a many hours long project, trying to navigate a new media and new computer program (aka frustrating). So.... it was a fabulous learning experience, and I'm happy and excited about the product I came up with.