2. I was asked to record some film footage around school,
I chose to film year 12’s during their dance lesson. I was
then asked to create my ‘first movie’ using Movieplus
X6. It had to include: Titles, Credits,Imported
Sound,Slow motion and Colour tint and atleast two
other effects.
I was asked to do the filming and making of my first
movie to help me to become familiar with video
recording and also the software, Movieplus x6.

3. A Camera recorder to film everything and Movie
plus to create and edit movies.
Equipement: I have previously used a camera recorder
at family occasions and etc.Movie Plus: I never knew
movie plus existed and had never used it before in or out
of school.

4. I started off with filming the year 12’s dance lesson
which was relatively easy, I then came across movie
plus which was completely new to me and struggled
to figure it out at first. I asked my teacher if help was
needed and learnt as I went along and slowly
worked my way through the task.

5. The main thing that I found difficult was importing the
media. I resolved this by trying different things such as
saving the file then trying to import it and not just importing
it from the camera directly.
This also came in handy when
importing audio files later on in the
process.

6. Another thing I found difficult throughout the task was muting the audio from
the original video. The problem I had was that when I filmed the footage,
there was already music being played in the background and part of our task
was to add music to our video.
I wasn’t quite sure if I was able to mute it or whether I had to recreate my
movie again due to the fact that there was a change that needed to be made
at the beginning of the process.
I finally figured out (through trial and error) that by clicking the volume button
as shown on the right hand side, that I could mute the original sound from
the video and add my own song.

7. Adding effects was and still is something that I
need to learn more about. I struggled at first with
adjusting the level of the effect e.g. when
adjusting the HSL, I had to experiment with what
darker lighting or a higher percentage of Hue
would make the image look like. This is
something that will gradually become easier as
the process continues.

8. During this task, I have learnt a lot about Movie Plus X6 which is a software I
hadn’t used previously before AS Media.
One of the first thing that I learnt how to do was ‘Overlapping’ audio and/or
footage.
Overlapping is an effect that I found very useful when creating
my first movie as I used three different pieces of audio along with
text that was coming in and out of the focus at different times. I
felt that overlapping allowed the songs to flow better as the song
would fade and the next would then start.

9. I also learnt how to add in animations and out
animations to text which was slightly different to doing
it in software's like PowerPoint.

10. All the things that I have learnt during this task will help me
when starting my ‘final movie’ as I will be able to take these
skills and reuse them in that movie.
Adding effects and overlapping are two things that I’m glad I
have learnt as I know it will come in handy when including
audio within my movie and adding lighting effects and etc.