When I began this project I thought it was going to be fun and not very challenging. To my surprise it was not very easy none the less I thoroughly enjoyed it because I was able to work with iMovie which I have not had a reason to use since I got my Mac. Initially my partner had a few different ideas and we thought Mac v. PC would be an interesting topic for a few reasons. First off I have owned a PC and a Mac so I thought it would be interesting to find out what other people thought. Also I thought it would be relevant to this class because while most of our work is done on Mac’s some students still use PC’s for it. When it came time to do the interviews I decided to interview my roommates, because while most of them own PC’s they all like Mac’s. I also decided to have my roommate ask the questions so that I did not have to, because I hate hearing my voice.
Much to my surprise getting the filming started was a challenge in and of itself. When I gathered a few of my roommates to begin the interview I could not get any of them to take it seriously. After about three tries I gave up an doing an interview with all of them together, to avoid the jokes. I then decided to sit them down one at a time for the interviews. Once they were being interviewed solo they were much easier to deal with.
After I finished shooting I ran into a serious problem, when I uploaded my footage and my computer kept freezing because I do not have enough memory on it. After the program quitting on me 3 times I realized I had to go to the library to finish the project. I debated whether I should show each interview on its own or just use clips from each. Then I began to grab clips from each person’s response to specific questions, and I found that for each question one person led into the next question. After realizing this I thought it would be fun to use clips for each question. I was very impressed with how easy iMovie was to use, and with it I was able to edit my footage just like I wanted to and produce what I found to be a very good comparison between Mac’s and PC’s. Since I had the objective side I had free range to use most of the good footage I had. Furthermore I did not have to just use parts where people expressed interest in Mac’s or PC’s. There were definitely a few clips which I could have edited to mix peoples words around, but didn’t. However I think it would have been fun to see if I could successfully do so without making it obvious. In the end I was very happy with my video, I felt that it accurately captured the way most people would look at the argument. Especially because whether people use Mac’s or PC’s depends a lot on what industry people are in or are going to be in. So in the end I would say that my projects was very successful.
