Some sample midterm videos from last year's INQ classes

Here are a few videos that I thought you might benefit from looking over. Last year's classes had a slightly different assignment than you, so the topic is different from what you are working on. These videos are not at all perfect, but they all have some strengths and they all are different and therefore represent a range of what you might do with your own videos.

The first is done using iMovie which makes it flow nicely. She has too many words on some slides and some of her interviewees don't always know what to say, but it shows you some of the things you can do with iMovie:

"Critical Thinking in College"

The second uses Windows Movie Maker. This one does a great job with Movie Maker even though it doesn't have a pre-formatted template to plug into like in iMovie. Some parts are hard to hear, though:

"The Art of Critical Thinking"

This one is different because it doesn't use music. Notice the different feel to it (she wanted it to be less chaotic, more formal and informative) and think about the feel/tone you want your video to have:

"Midterm Project"

This last one makes a point of being funny, and the video maker also draws some of his own comics and includes them in the video, so it's very creative. In some places the audio is hard to hear, but he does a nice job of supplying text (like subtitles) to help us along):

"INQ 101 Critical Thinking Video"

Enjoy!!