Assignment 8

This past week we were tasked with creating a desktop movie/digital story and upload it to TeacherTube. I really enjoyed creating this as I had never before used Windows Movie Maker. But it seems my computer wasn't so keen on cooperating with me.

While creating the movie, my computer would freeze at various points causing me to have to reboot....and my computer takes FOREVER to reboot. So this was really frustrating. Then while trying to save my movie maker file as a movie file, my computer froze a total of 6 times. Again, I had to reboot. After the sixth time of freezing, I was finally able to save the file and upload to TeacherTube...only to find that the video was uploaded but could not be viewed.

It was 2:30ish in the morning at this point so I had missed the assignment due date (Monday at midnight) which really angered me. I went to bed and when I got up in the morning, I checked TeacherTube. Still no active video. AGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! So, I uploaded my video to YouTube instead and submitted the URL for grading. When I viewed my uploaded movie, I realized that some of the last changes I had made to the video had not been saved.

So, I had to go back to the original movie maker file and make those changes, re-save as a movie file (as you can guess...my computer froze two more times) and uploaded again to YouTube.

GEEEESSSSHHHH!!!!

Despite my computer troubles, I still enjoyed creating this digital movie and can't wait to make more...although I will not attempt to create such a movie again on my current computer...unless I absolutely have no choice!