Thomas' Blog

When looking over my peer reviews, there was one common change that I was requested to make, I needed to increase the volume on my voice over. I returned to my editing and increased it, and also the volume of the youtube video capture because I feel that was a bit challenging to understand and is a key part of my story. I was also told by a couple of my peers that the protagonist's storyline was a bit unclear. I understood where they were coming from, however, this was intentional. I feel that the beginning of the movie should leave out key parts of information like that, leaving the viewer to figure out who someone is and why they fit into story themselves, as the movie goes along. My Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_x5xTf7Wwk&feature=youtu.be

This is the first draft of the opening to my movie, "The Untold Story Of Simon Taylor".

One part of the editing process that I knew would be a challenge was syncing up the fake youtube video with the actual youtube video, so I wanted to get that done first. As can be seen, by the clip itself, there are some hiccups that need to be worked out. Two things, in particular, are that there is a part where you can see the original video (Which is a video game clip) and it randomly switches over to the new video. I also need to add subtitles to the video to help the viewer understand the subject better. The original video is already hard enough to hear, so with the distortion, and not being able to make out his words by looking at his lips, I even need subtitles to understand him. Here is the rough draft of that section. This part alone took me almost an entire class period to complete because of how tough it was.

When I heard that we would be using premiere pro for this project I was super excited because I have previous experience with the program and I like it a lot. My first batch of editing mostly included organizing my clips and re-learning the program because I haven't used it in a little while.

There is another type of filming I needed to do for this project, and that is the type of filming that doesn't involve a camera at all. I had to use a program called Open Broadcast Service to record my computer screen to gather the footage from youtube videos. I needed to get a clip, but change the title, since I don't have access to the original uploaders content, I had to upload my own random video with my desired title, and overlay his video, here is the original clip with no overlays. There is another kind of filming that I needed to do for this project, and that is audio. Since I will be using a voiceover for most of the duration of this video, I needed to write and record my voice with my Blue Yeti Microphone.

I started out this project with the full intent of doing a mysterious/ scary film opening with a comedic undertone, but as I had longer to process the idea, it sounded less and less interesting. Scrambling to find a new idea, I thought of so many different things, but my final choice, pretty much just landed in my lap. My new film will be an intro to a documentary about a former friend of mine that had a pretty dark secret about himself uncovered. Some of the footage that will be apart of my film will be from the actual video exposing said secrets. All names and faces of real people will be changed and or blurred. The first batch of footage I filmed myself during the drive to one of my actually rehearsals and shows clips of my actual routine that I go through every day before a rehearsal or show. These are some of the raw clips that I filmed, some of which I will be using in the real video, and some of which I will need to get rid of or change heavily due to poor produ...