WORDS Video

The purpose of this assignment was to recreate the video “Words”, and use short video clips to show different words and the transitions between them.  This assignment was meant to teach us to create videos, be creative, and learn to use different mediums to communicate words.  Emily and I wanted to show the words “fall”, “throw”, and “watch”, as well as the different meanings each might have.  We wanted to not only show the conventional uses of the words, but also different phrases that include them.  We tried to be creative in what we recorded and how we set up our clips in iMovie.

This assignment taught us to think outside the box, use video as a medium, and communicate the same ideas through different clips.  In order for this project to work, Emily and I had to be very creative and clever in how we would transition from word to word.  We had to think of different phrases and meanings of each word and how we could use videos that represent each.  We had never used video before, so it was a different experience in learning compositional techniques for video and how movement and sound would affect it.  It was very different to learn how to videotape what we wanted, but it was also a lot of fun and really different.  Because we were using the same words across a variety of clips, we had to learn how to show that we were using the same words, despite having different meanings and videos to represent them.