Google and Windows Movie Maker

Google Earth may be fun and innovative and it allows us to fly the skies and sail the seas to any destination that we desire...but nonetheless it could also be the perfect search scope for terrorists to plan any infalliable attacks.

So I've just installed Google Earth and realised that it even allows me to not only explore the surface of the Earth but under the seas too. In addition to that, we are able to access images of how places used to look like and compare these historical imagery to present times and also study how it has changed over time. Undoubtly, Google Earth has given us insightful knowledge about our world that we probably wouldn't have known about.

Without Google Earth, I might never discover that a place like Upernik existed...or the fact that it's a small town located on the West Coast of Greenland with a population of only 3000.

Besides Google Earth, Google has tons of other useful applications like Google Image, Groups, News, YouTube, and of course Blogger.

This video is a list of top 10 horror films according to ME. [Viewer discretion is advised; so people like Fel, avoid clicking on the play button =) ]

The last time I made a video was probably 5 or more years ago. Making one for this blog certainly brought a sense of nostalgia and it also took me longer than I normally would have taken then since I've grown to be unfamiliar to most of the tools.

For starters, I had to search for pictures to add to my video, limiting myself to 3 pictures per movie and thanks to Google Image, I was easily able to come up with the 30 necessary movie screenshots. Since I already had the music file of the song I had in mind for my video, my work was further simplified as I imported the mp3 into my window movie maker project.

Next, I had to rank the movies in order and then insert the titles into the appropriate parts of the clip. The Storyboard allowed the arrangement to be done easily. Most of the effort went into making sure the clips would fit into the time range of the song and that was easily settled in the 'Timeline' mode of WMM.

Overall, this exercise reminded me of how fun and useful the Windows Movie Maker application is and in terms of user friendliness, I'll probably give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars. =)