I had planned to rework my original Bersih rally video. That was my very first iMovie project and it wasn’t very good. I love the music though, but I couldn’t figure out the Ken Burns effect or the transitions then, so the video consisted of mostly static still photos. Somewhere along the way of editing it, it morphed into a totally new video with new music and mostly new photos.

My brother was telling me that, since I’m such an expert now, I should start a tips and hints category for iMovie enthusiasts…hahaha. I don’t know about hints and tips for iMovie but I definitely have some ideas about the way I will capture photos in the future:
1. The higher the resolution the better. That will optimize the use of the Ken Burns effects. And with a high resolution photo, the overall photo composition does not really matter, because I can zoom in wherever I want for the video.
2. Macro (close-up) photos are no good. Because there’s no way to work around something that takes up the whole photo.
3. Large landscape photos are good. Nice “oh wow” effects.
4. People photos are good, especially photos where the people’s expressions can be seen.
5. Photos of people in action are good (e.g., walking, working, getting hit by water cannon and tear gas).