Video Editing

wylie: I’ve always been interested by the hidden infrastructure...

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:36:38 -0900

I’ve always been interested by the hidden infrastructure of everyday life. This New York Times article, and before it one in the Washington Post, stand out as some the few stories that manage to capture this fascination.

my blog my blog my blog my blog

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:52:59 -0800

my blog my blog my blog my blog

jumpingkangeroos: My three things I chose to print out.

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:54:36 -0800

jumpingkangeroos:

My three things I chose to print out.

Evaluation

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:53:00 -0800

For this project the aim was to create a 1 minute video from one of the four themes on the project brief that I was given, these were, Friends of the Earth, Professional, Time & Place and Rant.

We created a new blog and the first task we had to do on the brief was to research into different uses of video. I had to put up examples onto my blog of these. I had to have a wide variety of examples from short films to virtual reality tours. I also had to find definitions and their meanings from different words related to videos. I posted a lot of different definitions onto my blog so that I fully understood each words meanings.

After I had done this I had to choose from one of the four themes on the project brief. I decided to find various videos online of the different subjects to go into more depth for each one before I made up my mind. I also annotated these as I went along before I made any decision of what Idea and theme I wanted to do.

I created a brainstorm for each of the different themes to go into more depth and I started to decide on some ideas that I got from them. I decided to go to various websites and produce various idea generating techniques as well. I think by doing this it gave me a more clear idea on what I wanted to do as well as pick a theme to base my video on. After doing this I decided I wanted to either do a Rant or Time Lapse.

I researched into Time lapses and also Rants of various subjects. I was leaning more towards rants but I didn’t have a topic to rant about. After a lot of thought I decided to go with the subject of Bullying. Bullying is a important issue and is experienced by nearly everyone at some stage in their lives especially school children.

Basing my bullying video on a younger generation I wanted to create something a bit more fun to watch but still carry what I wanted to put across in a serious was. So I chose Lego to show bullying.

I researched lego animations on youtube and put some of the best ones I liked onto my blog as research. I wanted to do a stop-motion animation to convey bullying and this was the Idea I was going to do. I started to research into bullying and produce brainstorms to choose other words other than just bullying. I think by doing this it gave me a clearer idea on what to choose to be part of my idea and what not to choose. I think the research really helped me this way.

When I started to create my video I knew I needed an iMac, a video camera, tripod and possibly a spotlight. I also needed the software on the computer to be able to create my video. I produced a schedule and sketched of what I wanted it to look like.

My sketch shows that I wanted to have it in a plain room style like a canteen and have different lego men sat down at tables and just a girl on her own at a table. It also showed how I was going to create these tables out of paper.

I produced a story board to give me a better understanding of the different shots I wanted to have in my video - Where I needed close-ups etc.

Once I had done this I had to start to create my video. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would. I knew I had to capture about 35-40 Seconds of footages and the other sections would either be text or a voice over. I think my video started out okay. It wasn’t great at the start but I knew I needed to do editing to make it all come together. I think to improve I could of done a lot more shots to make it less jumpy in the final version. But I do like the way it turned out anyways.

I used final cut to edit my video. I learned a lot from final cut because I had only used this a few times so I didn’t know an awful lot about it. But I didn’t really have any problems and I thought editing my video wasn’t a hard task to do. I knew I had to export my video so that I could upload it to various video hosting websites to gain as much feedback as I could, I uploaded an unfinished video onto youtube and checked a few days later to find someone had commented on my video which I thought was great. I also uploaded the video and the final video on to Vimeo and Youtube again. I hope to try and uplaod my video to as many video hosting websites as possible to see if I gain any feedback from people who watched my animation video.

Overall I think this project was a good project, I liked creating my own video, I found it interesting and editing it was probably the best part. I liked the topic I decided to do because I felt it was an important topic and I liked the way I showed it in a different way - using lego. To improve I could of captured more film so that I had a lot more to edit and then maybe the final version wouldn’t of been so jumpy. But I liked my final video as it was and I thought it conveyed bullying in a different approach - which I liked best.

The codec for my final movie was in .mov which is the file extension for quicktime.

The frame rate I used for my movie was 12 fps (Frames per second)

Final Video - This is my final video uploaded on Vimeo.

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:04:00 -0800

Final Video - This is my final video uploaded on Vimeo.

Feedback - We had to swap computers with someone else and look...

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:14:00 -0800

Feedback - We had to swap computers with someone else and look at their work and answer questions on it. This is Jamie’s Feedback for my video.

These are some of the ideas I thought of. I wrote them up in...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:02:00 -0800

These are some of the ideas I thought of. I wrote them up in photoshop and collected some pictures that I thought would help me develop these ideas further If i chose one of them. I thought by doing this I have explored a few different themes on the brief.

Bullying Mind Map - I did this because I thought it might give...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:30:00 -0800

Bullying Mind Map - I did this because I thought it might give me a different approach to using different words other than just Bullying. After I did this it gave me a wide range of words that I could potentially use. I think by doing this it has developed my idea further and widened the word choices I could use and also other topics related.

This is my uploaded video on youtube that I posted just before...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:49:00 -0800

This is my uploaded video on youtube that I posted just before the easter break. I left it to see if anyone would leave feedback. It is uncompleted at the moment, but I’ll upload the video to different video hosting sites when I’ve finished so that It is up on various video websites.

This is the feedback so far after about two weeks on youtube for my unfinished video.

It shows the main target audience and where the video is most popular etc.

Editing in Final Cut - These are some of the screenshots I took...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:58:00 -0800

Editing in Final Cut - These are some of the screenshots I took when I was editing my footage that I took. I took various screenshots because it showed the making of my film in its progress. After I had done most of it I decided to upload it to youtube to see what feedback I could get.

Images of Lego Video - I took shots of the video at different...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:55:00 -0800

Images of Lego Video - I took shots of the video at different times. I took these because They showed the development of it. I like how the video is progressing.

I think so far the video is coming along great. I like how the shots are, I think it could improve by not being as less jumpy. But I like the effect of it being like that non the less.

Images in I-Stop Motion - I took these when I was creating the...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:49:00 -0800

Images in I-Stop Motion - I took these when I was creating the video. I had it all set up and I wanted to take screenshots to document of what was going on and how I created my movie from the beginning.

The Target audience for my video will be aimed at probably a younger generation because of the way I have created this video - which is a lego animation, I hope this is a different way to show bullying and is easier to watch rather than watching graphic images or stories about the topic I have chosen. I like the way I have used lego because it shows a different approach, which is a fun way to do but yet still shows a serious side to the video as well.

To set up this equipment, I used:

A Tripod

A Video Camera

iMac

iStop-Motion

& A Spot Light

I plugged in the Video camera into the iMac and opened iStop-Motion & selected the device and it connected them.

I then used the computer to take the shots that I wanted. For e.g. if I pressed ‘2’, two shots would be taken.

Sketch for idea - This is a sketch idea for the bullying video...

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:47:00 -0800

Sketch for idea - This is a sketch idea for the bullying video of what I wanted to do.

I thought about having it in a popular place like the canteen so I drew people and tables to represent this. I labelled the men as being lego men so I knew what I wanted to do.

I also thought about creating lego tables as well or using other materials instead of lego to combine in the video. I thought about using paper and drew how I would create these paper tables in the sketch idea as well.

I also created a few other sketches for some other Ideas I thought of but for a Time Lapse I thought embedding videos on the theme Would be good enough as there is not much to really sketch.

StoryBoards

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:57:00 -0800

Schedule & Production Plan

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:56:00 -0800

Shooting Schedule:

Location Participants What’s Happening

10:00am - College Lego, Nat, Lee Taking Shots of First Few scenes

11:00am - College Lego, Nat, Lee Sets up the close-ups of lego faces

12:00pm - College Lego, Nat, Lee Filming up to about 10 Secs footage

1:00pm - College —————- Lunch

2:00pm - College Lego, Nat Filming the main bulk of video

3:00pm - College Lego, Nat, Lee 20+ Seconds Footage

4:00pm - College Lego, Nat Finalizing Footage up to 35-40 Secs

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Location Recce

Production Name: N. Thompson

Date of Recce: 17/03/2010

Production Team Members:

1 Natalie Thompson

2 Lee Evans

3…………………………………………

4…………………………………………

Remember to take digital photos of the location for reference

When are you filming? Will the location be available?

College - Will Be Available. Monday - College Day.

Where are you filming?

Mid-Cheshire College

Hartford

Cheshire

Get a printout of the location from www.multimap.com

Are you filming indoors or outdoors?

Indoors inside College

Who has the keys to the location? (name and phone number)

Mike Goddard

Sketch out the layout of the location:

Will you need camcorder batteries? How many?

Is the location bright or dark? Will you need to take lights/reflectors?

Bright

How noisy is the location? What Microphones will you need?

Doesn’t Matter.

Any other notes:

Stop-Motion Animation. NEED iMac~

Anti-Bullying Lego Animation Video I chose this video because it...

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:24:31 -0800

Anti-Bullying Lego Animation Video

I chose this video because it was a video to base my ideas that I had brainstormed on.

I like the theme of bullying and thought I could use the idea as a theme for my own.

After researching into lego animations and stop-motion techniques I decided to create my own storyboard of what I would do, and Plan out my video.

I think that I will research into bullying some more before I choose what Idea I am going to continue with.

Lego - Video. I took this video because it was lego created...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:00 -0800

Lego - Video. I took this video because it was lego created arcade games. It gave me a whole new idea on what to do in my lego video and topics that I could debate about. I liked this video because of the creativity in it. I also liked the different arcade games created. I think the target audience is aimed at teenagers because of the arcade games. I also think it could be adults as well as these games are classics.

Lego Video - 1800 Hours to Create. Below is the screenshot of...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:38:00 -0800

Lego Video - 1800 Hours to Create. Below is the screenshot of when I searched youtube for Lego Videos to research into my idea further & to get some ideas on topics to use. I took this video because it was created professionally and I liked the outcome and how it was designed. I think the target audience is aimed at teenagers because of the content in the video. This video gave me some ideas for my own lego video because I liked how the objects were built up and then back down again.

The Black Hole on Youtube. - Longer Version.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:57:53 -0900

The Black Hole on Youtube. - Longer Version.

How long is the sequence? 1 Minute Long How many separate shots are in it? about 11 different shots...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:47:00 -0900

How long is the sequence?

1 Minute Long

How many separate shots are in it?

about 11 different shots are in the short film.

Individual shots:

Panning close up.

High Angle

Close Up

High Angle

Straight On

Profile - Sideways

Low Angle

3/4 Shot

Single

Zoom

Static Shot

Why has the shot been filmed in this way?

I think it has been shot in this way because these angles are the most effective. There are a lot of angles in this video and I think it is needed because of how much goes on in it. The camera position is always in a good place and keeps the video interesting by the different shots.

What does it tell us about?

- It tells us about the character in the film & what the person is like. It shows his boring job and how his Greed gets the better of him when he finds a black hole.

- The setting tells us that it is a dull work place, and isn’t very interesting.

- The story tells us about how greed gets the better of a office worker.

How are the shots connected together?

- The editing is quite face, there are a lot of different shots and angles.

- The shots are joined together by a lot of cuts.

Effects, Are there any special effects?

There is a lot of special effects because of the black hole, and it works.

Titles & Text Are there any words on the screen?

Yes there is a title at the start of the video “The Black Hole”

Sound

The sound on this video is just typical effects.

The sound of the photocopier and the sound the black hole makes then he enters it everytime.

If I just heard the soundtrack first, I would expect to see some office themed video because of the Photocopier.

There were no voices in this video. Just sound effects.

Characters

- He’s wearing a shirt, tie and trousers

- He is quite tall and thin.

- No speaking.

- They are photocopying at the beginning.

- No other people in the video.

- They are in some kind of office.