 Movie Making Tips, Tricks and Links!
1. Framing Ideas
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Before you start to film take a look at a few random Hollywood movie trailers and notice how the photographer frames, balances and arranges each shot. Each frame could be a photograph on its own!
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Camera Tips.pdf |
2. Storyboard |
Create a storyboard to organize your thoughts
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Storyboard2.pdf |
3. Camera |
There are many camera's. Two we are using are: JVC770 Camcorder / Canon 590 Powershot
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JVCSmartCard.pdf |
4. Production |
Use imovie HD for movies with special effects, editing Use imovie 08  for narrations, throw video clips together
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5. Converting |
There are several options to convert your movie to another format for viewing in presentation, emailing, or on a web site (Page 285) |
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Summary of imovie versions from Wikipedia...
Features of iMovie HD 6
iMovie 6 was released in January 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite and in iLife '08 as a substitution for iMovie '08 (due to lacking features). It is integrated with iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb. New features include:
* Themes. Designed for ease of use, themes allow the user to drop movie clips or photos into professionally-designed backdrops.
* Each theme includes full-motion graphic bumpers and transitions.
* Real-time effects. iMovie takes advantage of the computer's graphic processing unit to perform some effects without rendering.
* Real-time titling
* Enhanced audio tools and effects
* Multiple open projects
* Video podcasts and blogs (using integration with iWeb)
* Refined look based on iTunes 5 and 6.
Features of iMovie '08
iMovie '08 (7.0) was released in August 2007 as a part of the iLife '08 suite. iMovie '08 was a complete redesign and rewrite of iMovie.
New features added include:
* Much better HD output, and more formats to convert to.
* A completely redesigned interface with an iPhoto style library. This is limited however by an undocumented restriction on supported codecs. iPhoto uses the QuickTime library and can create thumbnails for all QuickTime supported formats, but most of these cannot be used by iMovie '08. Indeed, even some of the very few formats that iMovie '08 is able to import will not be recognized when they are added to an iPhoto library. Motion JPEG encoded AVI files do appear to be recognized, this is the most common format used by digital cameras. The tile based editing interface was also promoted as something unique and groundbreaking, even though it is functionally identical to the interface of the Toaster Flyer non-linear digital editing systems released for Amiga computers by NewTek, Inc. in 1993.
* A new feature called skimming for quickly previewing video in the library at a user controlled speed.
* A feature that allows one to highlight parts of video clips just like highlighting text.
* The ability to add more than two layers of background sound, including multiple music, narration and sound effects; previous versions only had two spare audio tracks.
* More exportation formats with support for iPhone size video and many other sizes.
* The ability to export directly to YouTube
* Support for non-tape based HD such as DVD camcorders HDD camcorders, & AVCHD.
Criticism of iMovie '08
iMovie 08 was criticised due to a drastic abandonment of some iMovie HD 6 features. New York Times reviewer David Pogue said "iMovie ‘08 is an utter bafflement...[it] is incapable of the more sophisticated editing that the old iMovie made so enjoyable...All visual effects are gone—even basic options like slow motion, reverse motion, fast motion, and black-and-white. And you can’t have more than one project open at a time."
Features removed included the classic timeline, the ability to create DVD chapter markers, support for plugins, and in-timeline audio adjustment and control. Most surprisingly, iMovie '08 imports a much more limited set of video codecs and metadata formats than previous versions of iMovie or today's QuickTime Player. For example, QuickTime Player can be extended to support the FLIP Video 3ivx MPEG-4 codec, but iMovie cannot. Limited import formats also excludes the DV format for storing raw format. As a result, all resulting videos have lossy compression applied and there is no facility for managing full format video. The peculiar lack of QuickTime support means QuickTime Pro can edit a far larger range of video than iMovie '08.
iMovie '09
iMovie '09 was released January 2009 as part of the iLife '09 package. It introduced some new features and restored some features from previous versions of iMovie, including basic video effects (such as fast/slow motion and aged film) and image stabilization as well as travel map functions for marking locations where a video was shot. It also improved audio editing and added full iDVD support which was unavailable in iMovie '08.
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