Class assignment: narrative

Well, I had a very serious video about "adaptive reusue" (read that as selling out to crass comercialization and ruination by the National Park Service) at the Hook almost already to go Friday night (11/3) and was just fiddling with the final touches when, of course, iMovie crashed and the recorded soundtrack, along with 80% of the editing, was lost and gone forever (and I kept hearing myself saying to my students: "Remember to save often!"--if only I had followed my own advice!). I still had my original footage already imported into iMovie, and Diane, Michael and I redid the narration, but at 11:45 pm, it was way too late to start a re-edit... I went to bed totally bummed out, but woke up with a brilliant idea: I could do a quicke with my granddaughter just telling me a story using my "still" camera--except that at the last moment Miss Maisy decided she really didn't know any stories (it was then 7:15 am and the class was at 9:30 and I needed to leave at 8:10--I was quietly gnashing my teeth), but then she did allow that she could read a book to me. And that's how I ended up with this little video edited in minutes with QuickTime Pro..

Watch the video clip "Reading"