Monday, 26 September 2016

Editing Project

During our first week of Film Production Technology, we have been tasked with taking stock footage of a windsurfer flipping his board on the water. The specific criteria for this production was to make it as interesting as possible throughout, and also make the video exactly 30 seconds long.

To start my video, I created my own title to introduce the video's content. I faded the title in and out for a seamless look, rather than making it look choppy with a basic cut.

Title on Timeline with music fading with it.

Title being edited on Title Window.

The final title in its final form.


Adding music was essential. because using just the camera's audio would have made for a messy audio mix in the final video. To remedy this, I edited some music into the timeline, and cut my videos to the beat of the song. This made it more interesting as connecting each beat to a new cut adds variation of shots and makes the video more rhythmic.

This is the audio on my timeline; no camera audio is included.

The cuts in my video are synchronous to the beats of the song.
Fades are included at the beginning and end to save abruptness.

I had to lower the volume on my music as it would have clipped
in its final version.

Adding so many quick cuts to the beat shortened my video to way below 30 seconds. This problem was solved by adding in the flip being performed in just one shot. To make it more interesting, I faded the flip to black and white/monochrome, then rewound the video to the beginning before introducing the slow motion effects that are seen throughout the quick cuts.

I used Calculations, then made its Second Layer
fully opaque to achieve a black and white video.

The black and white result.

Reverse Speed was used to rewind the video.
I sped it up to 250% to cut to the beat.

I slowed my quick-cut footage down to 20% to
make the shots more interesting to observe.

Final Video

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