I had a lot of fun with this assignment.  We had to make a short 5 second video that told a story.  I decided to make a little gag joke out of my 5 second video.

It took a long time to figure something kind of clever out.  I took my inspiration when I was watching The Chronicles of Narnia and they entered Narnia through the closet.  I thought it would be funny to do the same thing including the meeting of Mr Tumnas.  Which was most of the joke.

My shooting was just a video of me in the beginning asking if you heard that.  It sets up the rest of the video and since I don’t have much time with 5 seconds I had to jam in as much as I could quickly.  Then I immediately jumped into a shot of moving into the closet, seeming like it’s from my eyes.  Then, I took my moving closet outside and put the same two shirts on the rack to match the shot as much as I could.  And then I peeped out of the walkable closet to see one of my roommates standing there.  Here’s a picture of the shooting.

I put everything together in iMovie, which again was very simple.  The only editing I needed to do was cut off the unnecessary fat from the clips and adding the opening cut and credits at the end.  Here’s my workspace:

And here’s my final movie:

One thing I wish I could have changed was matching the screenshot of walking into the closet more.  I think putting an arm in or something could have done that, but I separated my shoulder last night so I don’t have use of my left arm right now.

This assignment, called Where Are They Now??, called to create a video of movie character’s updated lives.  I chose Harry Potter, because there were so many character’s to update and it was a favourite movie of mine when I was a kid.  I grew up with these character’s , so it was funny to see where they’ve ended up presently.

I chose to do six characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville, and Ginny. I used bing to find images of them now and thought of a made-up update for them.  I used Powerpoint to create the title slide, which I screen captured and opened in Windows Movie Maker.  I then opened each of those images and added the text.  Finally, I used Audacity to trim the Harry Potter theme song and fade it in and out.  I put it all together in Movie Maker and published it on YouTube.

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For my last video assignment, I wanted to really challenge myself. I decided to do the Return to the Silent Era {*****} assignment.

Since we first heard about our final projects, I wanted to make my last video assignment so it could tie into my final project character. There was only one problem, I didn’t want to base my final project character off of one assignment. I wanted to base my assignments off my final project character.

I chose to do my silent movie trailer on the movie Now You See Me (2013). The reason I chose this movie trailer is because I am dying to go see this movie because of the trailer. Movie trailers are created so people will want to go see that movie. If a trailer is dull, it might deter people away from going to see it.

I converted the trailer from YouTube into an MP4 file via KeepVid. I searched for music that I wanted to include in it on Freesound.org. I downloaded this silent movie music clip and decided to repeat it over and over until I would play this haunting clip. I planned to play the haunting clip when the tension is rising in the trailer.

Here is a screen shot of my work of art:

I liked the idea of the cue cards when putting in some words to keep the viewer on the same page as the storyline. If there weren’t any cue cards, I think everyone’s creative minds would be going at the speed of sound!! I also thought the cue cards played an interesting role. Obviously in movie trailers, there is a lot of dialouge going on. Having cue cards for this assignment made me pick out what words were important enough to have their own cue card. I got my cue card image from Google and used the ‘Stencil’ font to make it look old.

Here is my silent movie trailer:

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So for this assignment, we had to show how changing a simple cut of a video could change the view of a character’s values, beliefs, etc.  The idea came from this Albert Hitchcock video where he changed the middle clip in between two others of a face and another face and some stuff happened…  This explains it better:

Anyway, I planned this one out last week and ended up bending the rules a bit for mine.  I did three different shots because they all demonstrated what I wanted to do and all had different effects.  I don’t think that any are better than the others, so that was part of the reasoning.  I think it ended up looking pretty good.  I ended up using the disgust face because it was different.  Here’s the final cut.

The first shot was a picture of my girlfriend making  a normal facial expression.  The third was a shot of her making a disgusted face.  I used these in all three clips.

The first clip has her making a face of disgust after looking at a bag of peas.  This gives the sense that she either does not like peas or does not like vegetables.  We would have to wait more shots to determine what was really true.  Or maybe both are true.  Who knows.

The second clip is where I cheated a little bit.  I used 2 clips in between the faces because it was hard to determine what was actually going on in the shot without the tin of Skoal being shown in a closeup.  But anyway, the whole shot gives the idea that chewing tobacco is disgusting, or maybe she was just disgusted at the person, the handlebar mustache–probably all of it.

The third shot is the ambiguous one, which makes it a lot of fun.  Here, we have a foreigner–my roommate–walking into the house as she looks on.  Is she a racist here?  Did he just fart as he walked by?  This one has a lot of interpretations that could be held, which is the fun of this shot.  Obviously I would have to get a lot more done or include some dialogue to reveal the true motivations.  Film is fun.

My only critique of this is that there is not any continuity of the shot.  It is just her in front of a door, and then I filmed everything else outside–but hey, it’s a nice day out.  Wouldn’t want to waste it inside doing this, would I?  I also made a mistake in the first clipping of this film, but it’s fixed

I think we’ve all heard of YOLO before, right? If not, it means Live Your Own Life. It’s also the name of the next video assignment I made.

Y.O.L.O Is the Motto is a 2 star assignment where you take videos, pictures, music and put it all together to show different ways people express YOLO. Some people love the word, others loathe it or you could care less about the term at all. I fall into the latter category. I don’t think I’ve ever used the word(!!) but I know when I’ve read things or seen the word, it does make me laugh.

For this video, I pulled pictures that represented each of these categories. I also took a video from Youtube to add in the video as well. After putting some music to it, I called it a day. But I’m going to share all the specifics after you watch the video, enjoy!

Normally I use Google Images to find my pictures, but this time around I went to Pinterest to find some inspiration. I am basically a Pinterest addict and I’d seen pictures on the website before with “YOLO” written on them, so I figured it was worth a shot. Also, I saw Kelsie’s video (which is amazing!) before choosing to do this assignment, so I tried to pick pictures that she had not already used. Once I found all my pictures, I then went in search of a video to add.

I orginially had two videos (one and two) and I clipped them in MPEG StreamClip, but when I went to put in the video with the girl, her lips and words wouldn’t match up and I couldn’t fix it So I decided to leave it out. Anyone know how to solve this issue? Thankfully, video two was good to go and I was able to use part of the video in my video.

After adding everything to iMovie I think had to edit each picture to make sure you could see the words. I ended up having to adjust the clip times as well. I added in a few transitions at places where I went into still frame pictures.

Working on the movie, still needs music and end credits.
For the song, I chose Young, Wild, and Free by Snoop Dog and Wiz Khalifa. I’d heard the song before, but I ended up googling “YOLO themed songs” and this is one of several that came up. I thought it was a good fit for the video and as an added bonus, there were “bleeps” every five seconds

I uploaded the video to audacity. I need 1:16 of music, I ended up taking 1:20 because 1:16 cuts off in the middle of the main course. So I faded out the last 4 seconds. It overlaps with the video just a little and I actually think it sounds good that way. After the Youtube Clip ends, I created another 8 second sound bite to finish off the video. Here’s my work in Audacity:

Here is the finished video in iMovie.

I hope you enjoyed the video, let me know what you think!