This tutorial shows how to make a video clip black & white in Adobe Premiere.
For my final project, I want to do a video similar to the one we did for the first project that involves the remixing of different types of videos because I enjoyed doing that. Some of these videos will be creative commons videos and some will be from other sources.
I wanted to make a video that is based on a song, and after looking at creative commons videos I thought it would be a good idea to make this video about different events in history/a development of technology. I’m thinking about centering my video on the song “The Times They Are A-Changin'” by Bob Dylan. I want the video to start with really old archived videos and gradually travel forward in time to the present day. I’m not completely sure if I want to do this, but I am thinking about possibly filming some footage myself and using that at the end of the video to represent the present day.
Or, another idea I have is to use a remix this song called “One Day/Reckoning Song” by the Mojos which is a more upbeat song than the Bob Dylan one, and it deals with the topic of growing old one day. If I were to use this song, I would start the video with footage of babies and kids, and then slowly transition to footage of old people at the end of the video. I would focus on younger people and the video’s statement would be to enjoy life while you’re still young. I’m not sure which of these two songs I want to focus on yet, but I definitely want to work with remixing videos, including creative commons videos, and having my final video be based on one of these two songs.
For my twine game, I’m following the general story of Alice in Wonderland, but changing a few aspects of the plot to make it more concise. Instead of incorporating a lot of text, I want to focus on the aesthetics of the game. One design element I’m incorporating into my game is the use of images, gifs, and videos. For example, when Alice falls down the rabbit hole in the beginning of the game, I have a gif of someone falling down a hole and looking up at the light of the outside world. I think that moving images and videos make the game more interesting and interactive for the reader. Also, at another part of the game I added videos clips from “Alice in Wonderland” the movie. There’s been more than one version of Alice in Wonderland as a movie- an old animated Disney version and the newer Tim Burton version. I’m including clips from both movies; I know this may be confusing because I switch back and forth between animations and real people, but I think this adds to the disorienting feeling I want my game to have. I want the game to have a slightly dark, mysterious vibe similar to that of the Tim Burton movie.
My group project topic is South Oakland. We want to focus on a few different topics that effect South Oakland such as pollution, traffic issues, public safety, and slumlord housing. For our media project we want to make a video that showcases these issues. I think that an example of a solution that could be made to the pollution of South Oakland is the implementation of a city wide system of trashcans and recycling bins. In my hometown of Newark, Delaware this happened a few years ago, and I think it has helped people recycle more and helped clean up the city. This idea could be incorporated into our video on South Oakland through diagrams and pictures. Another issue, public safety, could be improved with the implementation of more street lights and security cameras. This is something that could also possibly be incorporated into the video with before and after photos made with a program like Photoshop. These issues, as well as other issues can be shown in our video using a combination of video footage, sound editing, and diagrams/text.
I played the Uncle who Works for Nintendo twice. The first time I played it I got out of the house safe but my friend did not. The second time I played it, I think I died. This game was really creepy because it was suspenseful. It used creepy sound effects the same way that horror movies use sound to be scary. A moment that I remember very clearly is when the uncle comes in the second time I played the game and the screen is taken over by red text. In this moment I lost control of the screen and couldn’t click on anything anymore. This made it seem like my character in the game was being attacked. Along with sound, this game also incorporates images. When the setting changes, so does the background image. This made the game scarier because I kept thinking a scary image was going to pop up on the screen.
Another game that I played was Capri Toot. I thought this game was a lot more boring than the Uncle who Works for Nintendo because there was a lot more text and there wasn’t any sound. Also there were no images, the color of the rectangular border of the text just changed. I played this game a couple times and both times nothing notable, like an image appearing or sound playing occurred at the end. With that said, something that makes this game interesting is that I keep wondering if there is a strategy to it and if the ultimate goal is to get to Zone Z because it’s at the end of the alphabet.
This is a tutorial that will teach you how to much a clip fade out.
For my preview, I’ve attached a clip of approximately 30 seconds of my soundscape. This clip is most likely going to be the very beginning of my soundscape. This clip consists of four layers of sound: 3 layers of city noises, and 1 keyboard typing noise. My soundscape is going to be set in a city and I’m going to have noises of a city subtly in the background during the whole duration of my soundscape. The premise of my soundscape is to incorporate both city noises and technological noises to create a stressful mood. Through this preview I’m attempting to create the environment of someone sitting their room in a city and frantically typing something.
After this moment, I’m going to include text message noises and the sound of someone texting on a phone. Then, I’m going to have a phone ring and go to voicemail after a few rings. After that someone’s going to knock on the door, and the main character of my soundscape is going to answer it. The person knocking (the main character’s friend) is going to ask the main character to hangout and the main character is going to say that they can’t because they have a huge paper due. I think the premise of my whole soundscape is just going to be someone attempting to write a paper and being really stressed out and facing many temptations that hinder them from successfully doing what they need to do. I know it’s a simple concept, but I want to focus more on making my sounds seem realistic than focusing on a really complicated plot.
The sound I’m choosing to use in my scene is the keyboard typing noise. I can picture this sound in a scene set in a big city. Someone is in a room typing rapidly. Text message noises are going off. Noises in the city are in the background, such as cars honking and people talking. A phone rings for a while, but after a few rings, it is greeted by someone’s voicemail. Because of the typing, it becomes obvious this person is actually available but chooses to avoid this phone call. The mood in the room is tense. Someone sighs loudly. Someone begins to play music through speakers. At this point you can still hear the sounds of the city outside.
I envision this scene as a bombardment of technological noises. I want it to use noises from computers and cellphones to highlight the fact that there is an overwhelming variety of technologies today. What inspired this soundscape idea is a commercial on TV about the “Amazon echo”, which is basically similar to Siri on an iPhone, but it’s a product on its own. This made me think about how we are constantly being introduced to new technologies and how some of them may be pretty unnecessary. Therefore I want my soundscape to show how overwhelming the noises of day to day life today can be. These technological noises mixed with cars honking outside and other busy noises like that create an environment with a stressful mood.
While listening to Limetown, it quickly became obvious that this podcast would not be the same without the use of sound effects. If it was just a person narrating the story, the effects and feel of this podcast would be very different. One particular moment where I thought the sound design was especially well done was the minute from 2:50 to 3:50. At around 2:50 the person speaking says “gone” and the word fades and echos into the distance. This is a very haunting moment followed by another well-done moment. After the narrator says, “The story exploded, gaining international attention”, there is a series of newscasts in different accents and different languages. I like the way these clips overlap with and fade into each other. There are English clips alternated with clips in different languages, because the podcast is in English and the intended audience understands English, this technique allows the listener to understand what is going on in these series of newscasts. After this, the narrator says, “It evaporated back into the 24 hour news cycle” and followed by this is a list of newscasts about different topics. This list is accompanied by background noises that relate with what the narrator is saying. For example, when she says “war in Iraq” there are gunshot noises in the background. After explaining what happened to the story of Limetown, there is complete silence. I think this silence is very powerful and it shows that silence can be as important as sounds. I think this minute as a whole is a great example of the use of sound design through voices, sound effects, and silence.
For my tutorial I will be focusing on how to increase or decrease the volume of a specific clip.
2. Double click on the clip you are trying to work with so that the clip shows up in the top left corner on the window,
3. Click on the “Clip” button at the navigation bar at the top of the screen. Then select “Audio Options”, then click on “Audio Gain”.
4. Either check “set gain to” to choose how loud you want the clip to be, or check “adjust gain by” to increase or decrease the volume by a certain amount. To make the clip louder make the number larger, to make the clip quieter, use negative numbers. Then click “ok” and your clip’s volume will be adjusted.
