Sunday, February 23, 2014

BGSU Class Project

I'm required to make a Holiday Card for my Video III class that is supposed to be "sent" to students from the university. It's due late Monday, February 24.

The only requirements is I have to use a camera layer, particles somehow, music, and voice over. I don't have voice over yet. Any suggestions? Any feedback from the video as it is? Thanks!


4 comments:

  1. There are a lot of good examples of American Independent films in here (and the American Independent movement of the 80s/90s -- good stuff). Is there a way you ordered the films or are they random? Also, for VO, does it have to be recorded by you or could you use dialogue from the films?

    Also:
    Sucess to Success
    Theater to Theatre (that's how the department spells it)
    Indy to Indie

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  2. That's what I'm talking about! The films were just laid in in no particular order, except for Apocalypse Now. I used that for a transition.

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  3. Did it need to be this long? I think you should focus on a smaller grouping of photos that screams "independence day" and really fine tune your photoshopping and motion for them. Not all the photos were that great for the effect.

    Also I felt like the particle effect was a little tossed in there in the end. I feel like if you are working with bringing still images to life then I think there is an opportunity to do something creative with particles inside that world. Like smoke rising or lights flickering.

    I also though the end titles looked like neon, so maybe you could do a particle effect where the neon pops and sparks fly and the scene goes dark and it transitions to the next group of text.

    Other than that I dig the idea man

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  4. The Jimi Hendrix song is over 4 minutes. I cut out most of his famous guitar rants to reduce the length to 2:22. There's more opportunities to reduce the length further, however. I agree that some photos are better than others and the Photoshopping is rough at times. I like your idea of bringing particles into the world that's created. I was thinking of doing the sparks off the neon sign idea, but I didn't know how that'd add value to the theme. Maybe I'll change the titles altogether. Thanks for the feedback!

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