“Open doors and see where they take you.
Edited with iMovie. Filmed at UBC and on the Canada Line.
Compared to a mute video, turns out that sound makes all the difference in the pace and atmosphere of the video. Sound may even be as important as visuals.”
That’s the tag line for the final project. I had a lot of fun with this filming and Continue reading
The second time filming and editing was so much easier. This time I…
-Made a list of where I wanted to film
-Had an idea of how each scene was going to be filmed (panning of the camera, angle)
-Made an outline of the order of scenes
-As I watched the draft videos, I made a list of things to change and checked it off.
Of course, some strokes of luck also helps.
– Had the inspiration to use ‘fade to black’ transition to imitate somebody blinking
– Found out dragging a scene from the Event box to overlap a Project scene allows quick selection of effects (Insert the scene, overlay, just overlay the audio…!)
– I happened to be filming during golden hour (1 hour before sunset) and that time of day gives videos a warm glow! Hurray for daylight savings.
Total footage time: 15 minutes
Final video time: 4 minutes
Approximate timeline for film #2
Filming: 1.5 hours
Editing scenes/transitions: 3 hours
Adding sound effects: 45 min
Publishing and uploading: 45 min
It’s Saturday, Nov. 24th, and I shot completely new footage and edited it today. At least for this concept of ‘doors opening to unexpected places’, I am getting the hang of filming and editing it to be closer to what I imagined.
Even added some sound effects from the iLife package. Continue reading
The idea: I wanted to play with our perceptions of what is behind doors. What if, when we open a door inside a building, it actually takes us, not to a classroom, but outside?
Major warning: First completed video on iMovie is EXTREMELY shaky.
It might give you motion sickness! (It certainly happened to me.) Continue reading
Editing is taking a LOT more time than expected.
I know; it’s something people always say but to experience is a different thing altogether.
That’s because editing is not just trimming video clips or adding effects, but also the whole process of deciding which clips are suitable and watching the result to see what works and what doesn’t work. Plus, stabilizing each video clip takes so much time.
Editing is a very ‘real time’ project. It’s not like studying, where it can sometimes be crammed into a short amount of time. Editing is more like exercising. You can’t really rush it and doing more in one day is just going to be painful.
Total video filmed: 25 minutes
Current project: 7 minutes
Conclusion: Still need cut down the video time and only use really good video clips.
Progress report
Isn’t it meta to write about WordPress on WordPress?
Just needed to log in a progress report on learning how to use WordPress:
– Few weeks ago, learned how to embed videos into my posts. Most websites, especially YouTube, have an ’embed’ code from their ‘share’ feature. Paste the embed code into the post after changing the post into an ‘HTML’ view, rather than a ‘Visual’ view. This can be found in the top-right-hand corner when writing a new post.
– You can add subscribers to your WordPress site by going to the Dashboard –> Users –> input emails. Subscribers can be changed to ‘Contributors’, etc.
– You can change the ‘publish date’ of your posts. You can even set it to be published in the future!
The ocarina is an ancient woodwind (Wiki source). Materials for ocarinas are usually ceramic, and may include plastic, wood, glass, clay, metal, and even vegetables. It has a smooth, high-pitched sound which is slightly less shrill than the flute.
Did you know you could play the ocarina in your iPhone?? Continue reading
Our midterm presentation was a pair-work project. Recently, my partner and I learned how to use iPhoto then led the class through a tutorial. At first, it was intimidating because we originally wanted to make a business card tutorial through Photoshop and iPhoto was a completely different tool. Overall, I enjoyed working on this project and teaching it with my partner.
See the final product after the break! Continue reading
As an HP user, I don’t use iMovie so it was interesting with experiment with its features. As a group of 4, we had 20 minutes in class to film some video and then a little more time to edit it using iMovie. We had many laughs during the filming and editing process and we learned to use many iMovie features despite the short time span.
Some things we used were… Continue reading