For this assignment, for 4 and 1/2 stars, I created a story with no dialogue. I thought of it when I was getting out of bed and I was like I really don’t wanna leave to go to class, so I thought, hell, this is going to be my story. I filmed all the way from waking up, to walking to class, while I was in class, when I left class, and I couldn’t film myself back in my bed cause I had to make this, so I pretended the couch in jepson was my destination. When I really thought about it, the couch was the same thing cause i’ve slept on the jepson couch plenty of times.
I filmed with my iPhone again, and used IMovie to edit it all together. Also, I downloaded the song of of mp3juices.cc and put it all the way through the clip. I picked Be Together by Major Lazer because all I wanted to do was be together with my bed!!
For one of this week’s Video Assignments, I chose to Tell a Story without Dialogue. The title of the story is “It’s not you, it’s me” named after the dreaded line that any guy or gal loathes to hear on the other end of a phone line or an awkward coffee table. A more recent encounter with this phrase inspired the video and the story is about a person who starts of his day like normal, assuming all is well and continuous until he checks his mail and receives “the line.” The world turns to grey and through body gestures, pauses, perspective, he comes to a realization that he shouldn’t worry and that there are others around to support him. He loosens the constraints of his work attire, representing the confines of emotion to which he has resigned himself and finds new friends in strangers in the park who support him on a slack line, a metaphor for balancing life and how we can’t do it alone.
I used the B/W and “Happy” (color) settings on my Panasonic DMC-TS20 to record the video. I used a tripod to take the shots in my apartment and recruited a friend to take footage of my walk through “days” (title of the song playing during the black & white footage). When I read Ebert’s points on reading movies, what stood out to me was the notion that a rightward direction represented the future, so most of the footage of me walking is forward and to the right, to represent forward motion, versus the helplessness, sadness, and resignation that Ebert associated with tilting the left. The idea of the upward angle to the right with most of the the initial walking was to suggest moving forward, moving on.
The color scheme was pretty simple. Whenever Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor” played, there was color, life, and joy, be it in the daily process or the ending scenes. When the character receives the note, he enters into a black and white world where the joy of color is almost removed by a shift in mood. Throughout the video, split segments into pieces deleting every other slice to create a jumping effect which I smoothed with crossfade transitions. This served the purpose of trimming down total time of footage, but also created the effect of time passing as the subject remained still while people and things around him moved. At one point near the end, I slowed down the video as the character paused to look at roses. This effect was to provide a hint to the viewer as to what might be going on in the character’s mind. All these effects, coupled with the tempo, tone, and message of the song played well together.
One other aspect of the film that I tried to include was that you couldn’t see the character’s face for most of the video until the 2nd half when he comes to his realization and sees the color in the world around him. The intent was to allow the audience to try and guess what was on his mind based on everything else BUT his face. Him scratching his head, pausing for the roses, putting his hands in his pockets, looking down to the ground…what does these things say about his thoughts and his feelings. Towards the end, we see him on the park bench, arms open, comfortable and happy in the sun and around people. An unintentional aspect of the ending of the Coldplay song, he sings “…no my feet won’t touch the ground…” which matched up with the character slack-lining above the ground with help from a new friend.
I created a video that tells a story where there is no dialogue or narration- only the camera, movement, and at most, a musical soundtrack, tell the story. For this assignment I chose to make a video with the 4th of july fireworks.
Process: I took the video I took during fourth of july, uploaded it onto iMovie, picked a theme, then added the national anthem on the background, then exported it into mp4 so I can upload it onto youtube.
How it was created…
1. I collected some of my favorite songs that spoke the words I NEVER could say.
2. I edited the parts of the songs I wanted and simply placed them in the selected boxes.
3. I then uploaded the pictures where my facial expressions or body language reinforced the words of the song.
4. I put those images into the images box
5. I edited the music so that it the pictures and lyrics matched and my video was created.
6. Uploaded it to Youtube and embedded the code onto my blogging site.
Before I had told you all that I love music. Sometimes instead of me telling someone exactly how I feel, I’d just tell them to listen to a song. I am a very open person, but if I feel as if someone does not understanding me, I become discouraged. Music is my outlet. Listen to the songs and pay attention to the pictures, it tells you A LOT about me.
Here’s the track list(in order) and the YouTube link , if you hear a song that you like and you want to listen.. Cry – Tynisha Keli
This video was relatively simple, it kinda goes back to what Dr. Groom was saying about images telling us more then direct exposition. Also it helps that I am using part of this video in my story with no dialogue post. For this I basically planned to have certain windows open in my comp to indicate what I was doing and I told my friends what to do during the recording. I then transferred the video to my laptop whereby I cut the audio.
Motivation
This story is about what to do when you have work to do. What should one do when they have something due by the end of the day? Should they fall into temptation and play video games with his friends or should he be a good student?
For this assignment I had to create a video that tells a story where there is no dialogue or narration- only the camera, movement, and at most, a musical soundtrack, tell the story. This was pretty easy for me to do mostly because I already had an idea of the story I wanted to tell way ahead of time. So i just searched on google for the pictures and imported them into one true media which was another creation application from my YouTube account like stupeflix, and from there I edited my video and rearranged the photos in chronological order so my audience could know what I was trying to ell them based on the pictures and the way I organized them, as for the music i just used a instrumental from one true media.
Create a video that tells a story where there is no dialogue or narration- only the camera, movement, and at most, a musical soundtrack, tell the story. Consider as the reference the opening and closing sequences of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
