Assessment 2.
When this assignment was first set I read the brief and immediately had many ideas about what I wanted to do. I had many ideas that would have been very difficult to do with my basic video editing skills and the time and cost involved. I had many ideas that would have been better with a larger time limit as ten seconds is a very short amount of time for any sort of story to evolve. This meant that I had to focus in my ideas on shorter events or situations.
Some of my discarded ideas included a split screen video of a band where each player is the same individual. This could be achieved using one camera with four shots, one of each player. These four would then be put together to make one shot where all four were playing along to the same song together. This sounded like a fun idea, but with more thought I decided that ten seconds was not enough time to play a song or a chorus and so the idea was scrapped.
One of my other ideas was to do some time lapse video of either a sky (i.e. clouds or sunset etc.) or a street scene. I had seen many of these before on television and the internet and a few fellow students I spoke to had already decided upon this. I decided that maybe this was an area I could explore further and could bring my own element to.
I decided that the passing of time could be represented by a clock. I put this together with the time lapse and decided to film a clock for some time and then speed this up to show a large passing of time. I gathered the materials I needed for this which included a clock and the camera. I sat and recorded myself holding the actual clock for a long period of time and let the clock just rotate whilst I tried to sit still. This is all that was required for this filming. I also decided that as a back up plan I would record a clock by itself turning for large amount of time. This idea however, I found to be less interesting and so did not continue any further with.
I took my recorded material to the computer lab at the university. Here I found the instructions for uploading my material. I had many problems with this until I used windows movie marker to upload the file and then saved it as an .AVI file. This then meant I could use it on Adobe premier to edit. The editing process was not too tricky. I had to isolate the part of my material I wanted using the cutting tool to leave me with only the main part of the time lapse footage. I then use the ‘speed’ and ‘duration’ controls on what I had to speed it up and crop it down to ten seconds worth of film. At first I cut too much and spread it over too short amount of time. I then corrected both these values and was left with the main part of the film. To add extra effect I added a sequence of colour filters over the footage to give it a psychedelic feel.
I then added an intro and title to my work and the credits at the end. I made sure to acknowledge what was done and the music I used behind the film. The music I used was topical and also fitted in with the psychedelic theme I added. Time by Pink Floyd is from the 1973 album dark side of the moon. I edited the track down from its 7 minute length to a track long enough to fit the film and credit length and faded it towards the end.
Some of my discarded ideas included a split screen video of a band where each player is the same individual. This could be achieved using one camera with four shots, one of each player. These four would then be put together to make one shot where all four were playing along to the same song together. This sounded like a fun idea, but with more thought I decided that ten seconds was not enough time to play a song or a chorus and so the idea was scrapped.
One of my other ideas was to do some time lapse video of either a sky (i.e. clouds or sunset etc.) or a street scene. I had seen many of these before on television and the internet and a few fellow students I spoke to had already decided upon this. I decided that maybe this was an area I could explore further and could bring my own element to.
I decided that the passing of time could be represented by a clock. I put this together with the time lapse and decided to film a clock for some time and then speed this up to show a large passing of time. I gathered the materials I needed for this which included a clock and the camera. I sat and recorded myself holding the actual clock for a long period of time and let the clock just rotate whilst I tried to sit still. This is all that was required for this filming. I also decided that as a back up plan I would record a clock by itself turning for large amount of time. This idea however, I found to be less interesting and so did not continue any further with.
I took my recorded material to the computer lab at the university. Here I found the instructions for uploading my material. I had many problems with this until I used windows movie marker to upload the file and then saved it as an .AVI file. This then meant I could use it on Adobe premier to edit. The editing process was not too tricky. I had to isolate the part of my material I wanted using the cutting tool to leave me with only the main part of the time lapse footage. I then use the ‘speed’ and ‘duration’ controls on what I had to speed it up and crop it down to ten seconds worth of film. At first I cut too much and spread it over too short amount of time. I then corrected both these values and was left with the main part of the film. To add extra effect I added a sequence of colour filters over the footage to give it a psychedelic feel.
I then added an intro and title to my work and the credits at the end. I made sure to acknowledge what was done and the music I used behind the film. The music I used was topical and also fitted in with the psychedelic theme I added. Time by Pink Floyd is from the 1973 album dark side of the moon. I edited the track down from its 7 minute length to a track long enough to fit the film and credit length and faded it towards the end.
