#30, Sunny Day Released

Joy At Sunny Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, September ‘07, artistic view.

After almost two days of editing, a Sunny Day video is released on YouTube. This is my very first iMovie ’08 video. Actually after an initial bad publicity, I delayed using iMovie ’08 for quite a while; now consider it to be entirely unwise. Lesson learned from "experienced" YouTube members who are quick to review and judge: forget about their opinions related to everything. The new version of iMovie is indeed easier to use than the old one.
Now back to the video. Spent about a week composing music for it, only two longer pieces and a short one for the closing scene. You may wonder why it takes so long, if you write music a note at a time, this is how long it takes. I did not use loops so far, not sure if I like the idea enough to try. Need to look around, read on the subject of composing, how others approach this subject. I do know that some people essentially hear the music, then sit down and "simply type it". I am far from that stage.
Shooting at the location is quite short, a matter of hours. Then editing, adding audio, and rearranging things around, takes quite a bit of time. I noticed that there is no easy way to find where the middle of the video is for the purpose of the middle image that YouTube uses. Is this true, or I have missed something so far?
Like more and more natural sounds that are recorded at locations. There is so much more going on around the scenes that are shot. Careful editing adds a new dimension to the final edited outcome. Next time I may try to shoot some scenes with a shotgun mike, and some with a broader pattern mike, and then compare those two methods together. Will I like the narrow pattern of the shotgun?
Lots of organic Oolong tea, and jasmine tea during editing, with some ascorbic acid added (that is vitamin C, if you wonder), not much more. A large green Granny Smith apple, sorry, almost forgot about it.