Here is what I made in class with my wise and wonderful partner Gail, yesterday and today. While the movie is less than 3 minutes long, it still took about 3 hours for the two of us to produce. So I think the rule of thumb for time allowance should be:
- For each minute of finished project you require, allow 2 man-hours of time. (one for me and one for Gail). So for Gail and I to produce the less than 3 minutes, it took less than 6 man hours.
- If you are inexperienced and working alone, as I often am, double the above. So without Gail's valuable knowledge and experience, if I were doing this alone, it may have taken 12 hours.
We used many iMovie features for this, including voiceover, clip editing, importing wordles from downloads. We used my MacBook Pro to record the video because I forgot my iPad yesterday. I know that we could have done so much more with this concept; adding words individually, recording and inserting student practice, improving and repeating pronunciation etc.
This was a very valuable exercise. Thanks for teaching us how to use this tool and for giving us the time to get it done.
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