History Video - Draft 2

After receiving feedback for my first video, I made some required changes in order to improve upon my work.

The first change that I made to my video was to improve upon my pacing within the sense of cutting the images to the beat. I have now made it so the images change on every beat, rather than on every new bar. Some sections were also sped up so that they change in eighth note, adding more pace and tension throughout.

Sound effects were also added into this video, and they range from speeches by Hitler and Roosevelt to various battleground sound effects like gunfire and explosions. In addition, I added different film grain and damage effects as using the same overlay all the way through looked monotonous; variation made the video more interesting.

Images were also rearranged in order to make them look more like they're a sequence of events within the space of so many seconds. This made video flow much better as a better sense of coherence was added to the video's events.

History Video - Draft 1

Our new assignment is to create a 2 minute long video using images from the internet, as well as sound effects and music of your choosing. The topic is entirely up to you, so I went and chose to do the history of WW2.

This chain of historical events starts from Hitler's rise to Power, all the way to the end of the war in 1945. Events in between include the Invasion of Poland, Pearl Harbour, the Battle of the Bulge and most of the Pacific Campaign.

Editing to the beat is key in this video, so I counted the beat in each song that I used and cut the images to them as precisely as I could. There are no sound effects within my first draft, only accompanying music.

I've also decided to use a film grain, dust and scratches effect throughout the video to make it look more vintage and akin to the motion pictures of WW2. Some images are in colour, so I applied an adjustment layer to make everything black and white.