Monday, April 12, 2010

imovie project

This week our class had to create imovie projects. I decided to do mine on something/someone who has really had an impact on my life. Currently, I am partner to the only salsa dance company in Knoxville TN. My partner is Waldo Solano, and we have been working together for over a year to date. We do performances around the southeast, and currently have a semi-pro team that we work with on a weekly basis. In addition, we have weekly Wednesday and Friday night Salsa socials, and they are really becoming a success here in the community. It is hard work to help run a company of this nature, but I love what I do, and one day I hope to expand SalsaKnox Dance Company to the best of its potential.

So in regards to creating this imovie, I actually had a great time with it. Although it was hard to learn some of the features at first, over time I was able to move/navigate around the software pretty easily. While the video took me a few hours to complete, I still feel like I could have spent another week on it doing more details. Imovie is the perfect place to develop videos not only for the classroom but for outside purposes as well. I know I am def. going to use imovie when creating promotional videos for my company in the future.

I hope that more teachers will learn to use this software. I know the kids are going to love using this program if they get the chance, and I could see it working for highschool students who are a little more advanced. It does take a little independence and patience to be successful with the program, but if your consistent then the end result is quite wonderful.

So my vote is YES for imovie, and i will give it two thumbs up this week....

PS..the song title and artist got cut off my movie project. The song is titled: Como Los Unicornios by Jerry Rivera

jacqui

PS...Watch my SalsaKnox video for a brief demo of my project!