Video Creation – in the beginning…

Well, I have just created my first video and posted it to YouTube! I really could have taken the easier route and just spoken into my webcam, which at this point would have been challenging enough for me, but after seeing Alec’s video and how professional it looked, I wanted to push beyond the spoken word. I didn’t even know that I had Windows MovieMaker on my computer! It took a lot of time to get things just right (I have the huge flaw of being a perfectionist!), but I am satisfied with the finished product for my first attempt. MovieMaker is actually a pretty intuitive program and wasn’t too difficult to learn. I ended up having more difficulties with figuring out how to move audio capturing from my headset to my webcam when I did the last video clip. I even tried to get fancy with a few fade ins and an opening title slide. This is probably a program I will use in the future, especially since I now have the webcam.

The only thing that I am not so sure I like is posting it on YouTube for the world to see. Not that I put anything THAT personal on there, but it is something that sort of scares me about the Internet. Even on Facebook, I do not open my profile or pictures outside of people that are my friends. The privacy issues on the Internet are definitely a phenomenon which I am worried about in the wake of having my own child.