Get an account and use it. Probably not for Film, but for everything else.

Then plug a camera/phone+camera into your Macbook Air and say “yes” to automatic uploads of photos. Dropbox will add 3 GB of photos to your 2 GB free account if you eventually add that many photos. (You can delete the photos later, disallow automatic uploading of photos, and still get to keep the 3 GB, for a functioning total of 5.)

Assignment: Read three reviews/critical pieces on Ghost Dog (Top Critics at Rotten Tomatoes is always a good place to start when you’re trying to find out how a film was received; try Ebert, McCarthy, Hoberman, Zacharek), then pull out one interesting sentence or phrase from one of the pieces, paste it into a comment below (with your first name), and be ready to bounce off of the idea by

• agreeing with it,
• disagreeing with it, or
• tweaking it so that you can agree with it

with a couple examples you remember from the film. Goal — Be interesting.

It should look like this:

Jessica Student

“The film implies that we’re all in tribes, following codes that lead to destruction.”

— Jake Critic, New York Times

No need to sign in or fill out anything except the comment box.

“Build an apparatus that produces videos the world has never seen before.”

Three Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew

Here an article summarizing the video below. Read the article and then watch. First trick is best: the swipe.

If you want to mess around with Trick 3, the split screen trick, and you’re willing to take advice from somebody who may be in middle school, here’s how to do it in iMovie.

Well, “two cam,” anyway.

iMovie makes this basic postproduction technique — cutting back and forth between two or more cameras shooting the same scene at the same time — anything but easy. A guy on YouTube tries to show a way to do it, but I didn’t find his video half as helpful as the written instructions he put in the comments. The instructions assume you have basic skills doing cutaways:

1. Drag the clip from Camera 1 (“clip 1”) into the Project area.
2. Trim the head and tail of that clip to precisely what you want to publish.
3. Drag the Camera 2 clip (“clip 2/overlay clip”) into the Project area, dropping it on top of and at the beginning of the first clip.
4. Choose “Cutaway.” This clip will lay overtop of clip 1.
5. Trim the head and tail of clip 2.
6. Drag it left or right until the audio is synched.
7. Once the audio between the two clips is synched, never drag the overlay clip again, or they’ll become unsynced.

As it stands, you only see the video from clip 2. Here’s how to cut between them:

1. In the Project area, click on the overlay clip to select it.
2. Point your mouse to position the red playhead at a time where you want to cut to clip 1.
3. With the overlay clip still selected, press Command-Shift-S on the keyboard. This is the Clip > Split Clip command. The overlay clip is now split in two.
4. Drag the beginning of the second overlay clip to the right. This opens a gap between the two overlay clips, revealing clip 1 beneath them.
5. Repeat steps 1 – 4 as often as needed to cut back to clip 1.
6. As long as you only shorten or lengthen an overlay clip and never drag it from its middle, which moves it, your audio will stay in sync.

When you’re done

1. Drop the volume of the overlay clip to 0.
2. Double-click the overlay clip and turn on the Cutaway Fade.

but best practice would be to use a third track, audio only, recorded at the same time as the two cameras, as your audio track.

Sample of the assignment is here.

At Wired.com.