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=Digital Story Week 1, EDLD 5363. The Adventures of Mutton Busting Jay=

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Making this video was a lot of fun. I had never heard of mutton busting until this camping trip. One of the key shots of my daughter falling off the sheep almost didn't happen. I was behind the scenes back in the chutes were the cowboys get on the animals; taking photos and supervising Jennai. My wife had our other camera and was going to shoot the actual ride. Luckily she took a picture as soon as the gate flew open, because the entire ride took about 1 second!! So to prolong the moment I went with a crop and a zoom on her fall.

One of the things I really like about a Mac is how all the programs are integrated and it is easy (mostly) to move files around between iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, etc. The crowd noises were also part of iMovie as was the background music. It was a kick to use my grizzled cowboy voice for the narration. I used the Ken Burns effect in iMovie on the photos. That makes it so the photos are not static, but rather zoom in and out and move around the image. The titles were also very easy to use.

The hardest part as usual was exporting the file and uploading it. Teachertube didn't like the m4v format that is the default for iMovie. I had to re-save it a .mov file so I could upload it. Uploading to wikispaces was a bit easier as I could use the m4v format.