iMovie: An introduction

A basic look at composing a movie in iMovie

If you don't have a mac, its still worth a look as principles apply to 'movie maker' for windows.
I have put chapters with timings so that you can skip to specific chapters as required.

Please note I am not expecting a really polished film, but I am expecting a good sketch up model with an excellent fly through, three pauses for a photoshopped rendered scene showing each of the three principles of design (annotated as 'Ice cold in Balham' video) that you have used for your design. A title and end credits also required.

The rest is for you to use your creativity and skill to get what you can out of the  movie programmes for each of the operating systems, though only a small percentage will be on your ability to operate a movie app. The benefit of a movie is to break the ice and conquer the fear, plus have a Vimeo account for future use.

I have put the chapter page for reference

DL imovie instructions from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.


Windows Movie Maker

Instructional video for the Windows user's.Not that different from iMovie.

CS6 Photoshop: Trees,Grass and Reflection

Instruction and example

Four videos working through the time spent in class. The final one different from the example shown in class as the refection scenes are more dramatic.


Well done to all on the watercolour and sponge exercise. Just goes to show that  with practice, thoughts and tips shared have helped us all (thanks to Sid for the blotting technique). After the lesson I suspect many of us have conquered yet another fear and are curious as to what can be achieved with more practice (google 'how to paint in watercolours' and 'painting trees in watercolour').




CS6 photoshop plan from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.



CS6 Photoshop plan grass from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.




CS6 Photoshop Grass perspective from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.



An old video showing trees in plan

Photoshop CS5 Graphic Trees from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.



An overview of reflections and the build up of an image.

CS6 Photoshop reflection image from Grant Beerling on Vimeo.