As some people know, I’m flying out to Hawaii tomorrow and I’ll be away for a week. I know, bad timing in the middle of the semester but don’t worry, I don’t plan on sleeping that much and I have been ploughing through the work assigned to me this past week. I even shot most of my shots for my Project Brief 3 and I plan to do them in the week it is due. (Thank god the deadline got pushed back). Anyway I have edited the skeleton of the interview that I have recorded and now all I have to do is find clips, music and/or images from Archive.org to edit into the video as per criteria.
I find this process to be very long but not tedious, it feels like I am learning lots of things along the way as I’m editing. Getting more used to the program is always good. I am constantly experimenting with clips and transition effects to see what is the best fit for my video. I was introduced via lynda.com to use something called ‘morph cut’ which morphs two similar shots, like interview shots, so the transition seems more seamless and doesn’t seem tacked on to each other.
Right now, the current sequence I have I’m happy with and I’m gonna spend the free time I have in Hawaii finding clips to add to the sequence on top. As for the style of video I’m going with, it just fell into place to be a very relaxed interview/show-reel type of video, so I think an acoustic soundtrack would fit.
In Hawaii, I’ll keep the blog posted with updates daily (?) on what I did that day.
Well, I’m off to finish off some work, do some extra blog posting and pack (I haven’t started).
