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iMovie magic

Michelle:

Earlier, in January,  my friend and I decided to make a movie on iMovie…best experience EVER. I had gone to her house for the weekend because she had a second home in the area. She is a boarder from Jamaica! Her mom had come in for the weekend on business, so she invited me to stay the weekend with her.

Of everything we did, making our movie was the best part of it all. We made our music video to the song Party in the U.S.A by Miley Cyrus… (I know what you’re thinking. WOW. Yes we did that song, but it has lots of things you can do with it!) Anyways… we filmed inside and outside since it had just snowed!! We took videos of us sledding down her driveway, which was SO steep! We also swung on the swings, ran around trees, and did cartwheels (well inside.)

I had learned some time ago during a technology class how to use iMovie and I think it is the best application on the Mac! I used to make videos with my friends at home, but I couldn’t believe that when we started making our video, I FORGOT how to do it! I didn’t remember where to slow and speed things up, or how to reverse clips. I was DEVASTATED. After a while searching, I remembered how to do it and it turned out to be a funny and quite interesting video!

When her mom was driving us back to campus she had asked us to transfer the movie to her computer so she could show my friend’s brothers and her dad our video. While we transferred it something happened. We LOST it. It was gone, nowhere to be found. The file had simply disappeared! It wasn’t on my computer anymore and it wasn’t on hers either! The whole project was GONE. We had to start from scratch again that night back at the dorm. We had all the clips, now it was just a matter of putting them back together again, I mean the timing, the reverse, the speeding up clips. It was hard!

In the end we finally finished it, again. We showed it to some of our friends who laughed at us and said we were so ridiculous. Truth is, we are ridiculous, be we had a lot of fun doing it.