So over the past few days, I had to go back to record more footage and shots for my project brief. I feel that at my first shoot I had a lot of usable material in terms of an ‘interview’ but I didn’t actually shoot a lot of usable ‘slice of life’ shots which I could use. I did have some that I used from the first shoot but I didn’t have an intro or outro or anything that had a bit of ‘randomness’ to it. So I just shot a lot of random stuff, I told my interviewee to just do random stuff.
As I was editing the tone of my video was lighthearted, just talking about the good things in life sort of thing. So I figured I needed a light hearted, soft soundtrack. Which I found after about an hour of ploughing through youtube commons. The video itself felt very raw and closer to home I feel, as it showed just everyday things and reflecting on what everyday things makes us happy. So I tried my best to find the best soundtrack for this feeling and edited in such a way.
Some parts I wasn’t proud of when I was first editing today, some transitions were awkward, the music wasn’t flowing etc. So I decided to ‘bunch up’ the footage a bit more so it flows on a bit more according to the music, and it did flow a lot better than it did before.
Then I played around with the titles and transition effects for them, I had a play around, adjusting the time for the transition effect and found the right time for the effects corresponding to the video.
I looked at the middle of video and I felt something was missing, like the interview was playing but there wasn’t much happening on the screen, it was the ‘split personality’ part. Which I couldn’t really find any found footage corresponding to a split personality, so I looked up on wikimedia commons transparent smiley and sad faces and just tried to use them at an attempt at humour.
Then it came to he ending, I decided to go with a soundclip I recorded which gives an overall touch to the video, like the cherry on top and combined it with random footage I shot along with some found footage in an attempt at humour.
Overall, I am pretty happy with the product, a few things I’m not too fond of, but it’s all bout the experience. I think overall out of any project I have spent the most time doing this, which is good; the more I do things the more I get used to it.
