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Haunted Video

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The Assignment

The assignment Sound to Visual involved taking an audio assignment I had already done and adding a video over top of it. To this, I used my Haunted sound story. First, I placed the audio story into OpenShot. Next, I went to Pixabay to find some video clips I thought would go well with my sound story. I uploaded these videos to OpenShot. I had to slice some of the videos down and adjust their lengths. I dragged the videos into the order I wanted them and then, when I was done, I exported my video. Finally, I uploaded it to YouTube before posting it on my blog. I had a lot of fun making this, only wished I could have found some better stock footage to use for my video. This is especially true as I haven’t been able to leave campus in a while to film anything super exciting.

It was worth 3 stars.

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Commercial

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One of the assignments I did this week was to take the audio commercial I created a few weeks ago for the radio show and adding a visual element to it. This assignment allowed you to use still clips and arrange them to go along with the audio that was already created. The trick was that the audio could not be edited. This was a great assignment for using my host character since the audio commercial from the radio show was for Esmerelda’s fortune telling services.

Esmerelda was originally created using bitstrips.com where you can create a comic strip using their pre-loaded scenes, characters and props to build your own comic strip scenes. A neat feature of this site is the ability to layer up or down the characters and props you insert into the scene. For this one I was able to put the man seeking fortune telling service outside of the door looking in by picking the scene, inserting the character and dropping him in front of the door, then I selected “layer down” and it popped him just outside the door. To make my comic into a movie I created each comic scene and saved each image as a picture. Because the bitstrip picture had a title bar at top and bottom of the scene I opened each image using Microsoft Paint and then used the fill bucket to make the title bars a solid black. Then I uploaded each image into a movie strip using Windows Movie Maker and added some animation movement. After the movie clip was arranged I added the audio clip, a title and credits page and saved the movie. Again I uploaded the video to my flickr.com account before downloading into this blog. I think it turned out great! Take a look.

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Slow Subterranean Blues

Think that I might need some credits this week as I need some digging tools from the store. So I had a look through the assignment bank and found this:
ds106 Assignments: Sound to Visual with 3 credits.

Using creations you have already completed in #ds106 – select an audio project you were happy with and build upon it to create a video. Do not change or add any audio. Challenge yourself to create the images your sound story conveys. Use the sound effects story assignment or an audio commercial from your radio work. Use found or created video and stills that tell your story. Push it a step further and show how sound may not always convey the images you think it represents (extra stars).

The challenge is to use some audio already created to make a video. I decided to up the anti/or make it easier by using images I’d already made from The Prisoner too.

I’ve been weirdly captivated by both the stretched sounds and strange images I’ve found in The Prisoner. To an fevered imagination they might hint at the dark side of the shiny sixties exterior. Unless I am miss-remembering the TV of my youth The Prisoner explored some deeper territory than, say, The Man from Uncle. Perhaps this video hints at that.

I’d already got the audio and had generated a lot of images layering and mixing stills from some episodes. I decided on using Hammer into Anvil – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia as the psychological battle seemed fitting.

Creating the ‘movie’ was simply a matter of previewing the images and choosing some (from thousands). Dragging them into iMovie along with the MP3 and doing some editing.

I am not wholly convinced about the improvements in recent versions of iMovie. I like the move at around version 7 or 8 away from the original style but think my favourite was 9.

Anyway to edit I really only did a little rearranging, sped up the slowed down sound at some points changed the images order and Ken Burns panning and inserted some transitions. I’d say the end effect is reasonably disturbing is a slow sort of way. The effect I was hoping to make.

Lily-Dog Nightmare Take Two

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I was so happy with my recent audio assignment that I couldn’t resist trying Kathy Onarheim’s video assignment for ds106. I used the audio file below as the audio track for a video that would tell the story visually.

I wanted to preserve the pacing and spookiness and disorientation of the audio file, so I approached the video as I had done with the audio, repeating a number of small clips. I recorded a collection of short videos of Lily on my Surface tablet. Then I used VirtualDub to edit the clips. I extracted the parts I wanted, stripped out the audio, and made other adjustments. I assembled the clips into Windows Movie Maker, resized them, moved them around a lot, and added fade effects everywhere. I uploaded the final video to YouTube.

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hop in your doom buggies y’all

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So there’s this funny little assignment called sound to visual and I figured I’d try it using this audio assignment.

All images are of the haunted mansion, which is in disneyland and disney world. I tried to kind of have the pictures be related to what is going on with the audio. So I show in exterior of the house in the beginning, a few rooms as you enter, more ghostly images when the ghosts are mentioned or heard, a transition to match with a ghostly puff of air, an organ player when that is the focus of your listening and then the famous hitchhiking ghosts at the end because they’re at the end of the ride. I did it all in movie maker and it gave me some trouble at first. The audio would show that it was there and then not actually play. After fiddling with it for awhile I decided to work on transitions and go back to messing with the audio later, but it fixed itself somehow. It just randomly began playing along with the images. I guess it just needed to load or something. I don’t know movie maker always does weird things with audio for me.

And how does all that relate to Cleo Barrow? I figure she’d be a fan of scary stories, ad should the Barrow gang ever need to camp out in the woods for the night, she’d be the first to suggest telling ghost stories. That works, right?

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Nightmares (3 stars)

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So for another of my 15 stars, I chose to do the audio to visual assignment. Well I searched through Abigail Deaconson’s blog to find if I liked any of the work she did. Well I found something she calls Creep… and it peaked my interest so I clicked on it. Well after listening to … Continue reading Nightmares (3 stars) →

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What Makes a Good Story is the Rhyme

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This is the sound to visual assignment worth 3 points.

I was messing around with visualizing the collaboration I did with Spencer’s character, Donnie Rawley, and I really liked the calm, striking visual effect I was able to get with these filters on Movie Maker. I think it fits perfectly well with the “zen” feel of the music. The water drops in particular looks so damn cool; almost like a moving sketch.

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Sound to Visual

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Submitted by: Kathy Onarheim

Using creations you have already completed in #ds106 – select an audio project you were happy with and build upon it to create a video. Do not change or add any audio. Challenge yourself to create the images your sound story conveys. Use the sound effects story assignment or an audio commercial from your radio work. Use found or created video and stills that tell your story. Push it a step further and show how sound may not always convey the images you think it represents (extra stars).

In your blog wrtie up include your original SoundCloud creation and ember your video(s).