I finished filming! I then added some bloopers and transpositions to the movie. After editing it on Windows Movie Maker, by dropping each scene onto the story board, I then had to find a way to transfer my movie onto a DVD. The only problem was that when I transferred the movie onto a DVD, it would only play the contents of the movie on the computer I had made it on. This was a big problem because I had no idea how I was going to give it to my teacher as it wouldn’t even play when I transferred it onto my memory stick! I phoned a neighbour, who has done some work on Windows Movie Maker so she was a perfect person to call. She didn’t understand why it wasn’t working so she told me to come down to her place. When I got there we tried it on her laptop and it wouldn’t even recognize it, so we tried it on her home computer. It recognized the DVD, but the contents of the movie would not show or play. We both agreed that it might have been the way I saved it, so she told me another way I should save it, then I would be able to go into the program that I was using and burn the movie onto a DVD. I went home and tried just that and guess what, it worked!
Making this movie was so much fun, a great learning experience and challenge as I had never done anything like this before! I came across Windows Movie Maker on my computer not long after we received this assignment. I had no idea how to use it or what it did, so I played around with it and worked out how to get some movie scenes on it and music. When I saw that I could do this, I thought I would try and make a movie for my imaginative assignment for English as a challenge for myself and to do something different that I had never done before.
Doing this movie was a great success, I have now learnt how to do so much more. I now know how to make movies, edit them and burn them onto DVD’S! I can’t wait until I get another chance to do something like this again!
