Lily Fails At iMovie

Yeah, this was what I was going to blog about. I remembered it as I woke up this morning. I also remembered the 50 Nifty song. You know, the one that names every state? Yeah, that one.

Okay, back to what I was supposed to blog about.

I don't own a mac. I never have, I hopefully never will. I don't like macs, they're too confusing. And the only time I get a chance to use one is in Spanish class, when we use the macbooks. So on Thursday, we started using the macs to make a movie on an athlete that we wrote a paper thing on. And we used iMovie.

I have never used iMovie before. Ever. And I have to say, it's probably the most confusing thing I've ever tried to use. First of all, I had to get pictures, and with macs, you can't just copy and paste. No, you have to drag the picture that you want to use onto the screen. How messed up is that?

But being the genius I am, I figured it out relitively quickly. (You know, based on the fact that I had done that before.) It just looked weird on the screen like that. And I couldn't figure out how to deleate the ones I didn't like. But my teacher just said that we could take them off later. Somehow.

So after that, I actually had to open iMovie (which was hard too, because it wouldn't open after a few minutes, and I was wondering if it would work at all) and make it. So apparently, we had to get the pictures into the iMovie. My teacher told me to 'just drag it in'. How less specific could she get? Drag it where? But I tried it anyways. And nothing happened. This is where I became dependent on Jenn to help me with tecnical problems.

So I asked Jenn, "How do I get these pictures in?"
"Just drag it in like she [the teacher] told you to," she said.
"But I did that and nothing happened," I said and showed her what I had done.
"No, you have to drag it in here, that's where the pictures go," she said and showed me.
"Oh, okay," I said and went back to my work.

The one she had dragged in was looking all wrong, and only showed my athlete's chin, neck and shoulders. I wanted to deleate it, but when I hit the deleate button (There wasn't even a backspace button on the computer. Just a deleate) nothing happend.

"Jenn, how do I deleate this?" I asked her.
"Just click on the picture so that it turns yellow and hit deleate," she said.
"Okay," I said, and tried it. It worked.

I continued working on my project. I dragged my five required pictures in. I showed it to Jenn.
"Now what?" I asked.
"You need a title picture," she said.

I tried to add in a title picture, but it wouldn't work.
"How do I move it?" I asked.
By this point, she looked pretty annoyed with my asking her so many questions. I imagined she wanted to work on her own project instead of helping me. But oh-so-patienly, she said, "Click on it so it turns yellow and drag it to where you want it," she said.

I did it. "So now what?" I asked her.
"Now you put in the bullets," she said. We had a draft sheet with bullets that we needed to add in.
"How do I do that?" I asked.
"You click on the T button," she said.

I clicked on it and a bunch of fonts and ways they were displayed on the screen popped up. I clicked on the one I liked. I tried to type on it like I saw Jenn doing, but nothing happened.
"It didn't work," I said and tried to type again.
"No, you have to drag it to the picture," she said.
I did it and nothing happened. "It's still not working," I said.
"No, you need to drag it to the smaller picture," I said.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh," I said.
I did that and started typing my title. Then I decided I didn't like that style. I wanted to change it. I clicked on the other one and dragged it to the title. But then there were two of them, and I didn't want the old one. I tried to deleate the old one, and nothing happened.

"Jenn, how do you deleate this?" I asked.
"Click on it so that it turns yellow like the picture and press deleate," I said.
"Oh, alright," I said.

I deleated it. But then I realized that my white font didn't show against the white background.
"How do I change the color?" I asked.
"Click on the edit font* button" she said.
I clicked on it and changed the color. And then the bell rang.
"How do I save this?" I asked.
"You don't. It'll just be up when you come back to that computer tomorrow. Just x out," she said.
"Are you sure?" I asked. I needed to save all the work I had done that day.
"Yes," she said.
"Okay," I said and boldly did it.
Then we left.

 That's the end of the story.

*I don't know if that was it's actual name. Just if you were using this as directions or anything. But I suggest you don't.