iMovie Novice

My latest project entailed a general introduction to iMovie and video journalism. My class was assigned an aspect of the PR department, and we were asked to make a short video targeted towards prospective ONU students. I had the honor of randomly selecting Dr. Kathie Fleck as the subject for my video assignment.

Although I never had a class with Dr. Fleck, I learned a lot about her through the students I interviewed. She brings a lot of enthusiasm and compassion to ONU, so I wanted to highlight her impact on students in the video. I did this by interviewing two of her past students, Alex Reese and Hannah Peterson.

When I interviewed the girls, they surprisingly gave me moving responses. It was obvious at that moment; I would have to make the video more about the emotional response that Kathie imposes on her students and less about her academic successes. So, I chose to do the video in black and white with minimal use of imagery. I felt hearing the words would do more justice than a photo collage.

Learning to use the iMovie software was easy and uploading the video to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter was extremely simple. Surprisingly, I found the process to be a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I definitely encourage you to try out your creative skills on a video and see what you are capable of creating.