Week 8: Video Lab 2

Week 8: Video Lab 2

A short film is to be used to promote the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow (GOMA). A TV company can only show 1 minute of footage. The original footage obtained (in the supplied file) is unfortunately too long and must be edited to be only 60s in length. Using Moviemaker or another video editor of your choice, perform edits to show a smooth walk-through of the gallery.

Your final film should demonstrate insightful editing of video and many replace some or all of the audio track with a new track. The new audio track should be composed of carefully chosen and edited from sounds from freesound.org. The audio track should match the mood of the video edits that are performed on the original footage.

There is no especially wrong way to perform this task. The task is an opportunity to integrate audio and video editing skills together. The task will run for the remaining lab session.

Upload you final video to YouTube creating an account as necessary.

Answer the following
- Please write a few paragraphs explaining why you made the edit cuts in the footage that you did?
- What emotional effect did you intend to create by making each edit?
- What features of the Video editor and audio editor did you find particularly challenging to use?
- If you were to perform this task again what would you do differently and why?

Firstly I'll talk about what cuts I made. Initially I started with removing the intro title card as I planned to replace it with my own at the end. Next I thought it would be a good move to try and cut out most of the parts where the camera was transitioning from piece to piece. I replaced these cut parts with fade ins between each piece of art to create the idea of having moved between them. One or two points of interest in the video weren't actually all that important for getting an idea about the museum and as such were cut to bring down the time and allow focus on the other pieces.

I tried to make the video into a calming view of the different pieces. I focused exclusively on any scene that involved a detailed look at the pieces of art. I found that the parts of the video where the camera was moving through the museum were actually somewhat boring and distracted a lot from what could be seen. For the music I used I implemented two tracks to play through the full length of the video. One was ambient museum noise with it's volume reduced so as to not over power the music I added afterwards. This ambient noise was purely for immersion. The music I used was a slow, electronic number that remained at a constant pace with some calming tones. Something I thought was very fitting for the museum.

In case this turned out to be too little to keep someones interest I used a track of a bottle smashing for the adjacent clip. This unedited track would loudly play not once, but twice. I used this to try and snap attention back to the video. At the end as the title card appears I use a small laugh track to convey the humor of the statue that stands out the front of the building.

The only parts I found any difficulty in was trying to keep the clip to the length allocated and fitting the two bottle smashes in perfectly with the video. I managed to work out how to correctly use the trim tool in the video editor and made use of the ability to generate silences to match up the bottle smashes with the video. If I had to do this again I might record my own background music, or even some dialogue to explain the pieces you can see. Possibly turning the video into a small documentary.
A LINK TO THE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoHFluyUFMY&feature=youtu.be