Nevermind, I Got It

Scratch that last blog! I figured out iMovie. What it was is that I have two iMovies on my computer for some reason, but the new one is in a folder, instead of just an icon like the other one. But once I got in the folder and got the new one, it’s been working better. It’s still tricky to work, but I think I’ve got the hang of the basics. I am going with my original idea of making a slide show in iMovie. I’ve already started on this but I'm not done yet. The cool thing that I didn’t know before Jessica told me was that you can save text typed in PowerPoint as a picture and then insert just text into iMovie. So instead of recording my voice, I have captions. I am thinking I will play my own music instead of what comes with this program though. So far it has been difficult making a simple trailer, mostly because even this second program has been touchy and doing strange things (not as bad as the other version though!) Also, because I wanted it to be cooler than it is, but I just can't do cool stuff with it yet. So for now, it is very bland, but it’s done. Long story short, for me this is a good video. I have never used iMovie before or anything like it. I was unsure how to formulate it content-wise too, but I’m just going to go with what I like and what would make this slide show look most like a real move trailer: pictures! (And maybe animations and film off of the Internet if it’s not too hard.) I’m studying Medievalism, meaning how we use medieval ideas and stuff in pop culture today especially, but also how other time periods did this too. Everyone has always loved the Middle Ages! But it is a chicken-and-the-egg thing: do we love the Middle Ages because of pop culture? Or do we love it so we put it into pop culture? (Or does it even matter?) For me, I went into medieval studies because of the books and movies I had as a kid, namely J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Stephen R. Lawhead. I love this study because I love history and pop culture and learning the history of pop culture and how pop culture uses history. But enough about that. You will see the trailer on Friday!