The tutorial is a description of one skill you learned or used in Premiere while making your remix, geared toward helping someone else learn it. The default format is step-by-step instructions and screenshots (like in the tutorial I made), but if you think something else would work better for your chosen skill feel free to experiment. Your tutorial is due on the blog before class Wednesday, 2/3. Tag it “tutorial.”
For my video i want to put together a history of car racing. I saw a lot of historical footage on the creative commons resources, and thought it would be an entertaining video. My goal is to make the video exciting and fast paced. I hope to focus on the other aspects of racing that happen behind the scenes, especially the pit crew. This is all dependent on the footage i am able to find online. I would like to focus more on F1 racing rather than Nascar, but this is also dependent on what footage is available. The reaction I am hoping to get from the viewers is a new appreciation for the complexity of car racing, especially for what happens behind the scenes.
I am going to use historical footage from archive.org to establish the background of car racing as a sport. For additional creative commons footage of more current races I will pull from pond5.com. To round out the video I will pull clips from Youtube that offer more exciting A-Roll footage of car racing.
In order to create the fast paced video I would like, I will need to have short clips and fast cuts between them. Another way to get the viewer excited is by setting the video to music, but also keeping the loud engine and tire noises. This helps make the viewer feel like they are in the car.
I already have a decent grasp on how to use Adobe Premiere, and should be able to do all the video editing things I would like in order to complete this project. One thing I am new to that I want to try is colorizing the completed video in order to make all the separate footage look uniform, enhancing the viewing experience.
links
https://archive.org/details/27EG-28-EG-58_HOTRODS
After looking at the different websites for source video I was inspired by the sports related video. Being an athlete, I’ve always enjoyed watching, attending and most importantly playing numerous different sports. Not only does the action captivate me but the risk and danger of professional sports in particular has always left a lasting impression. I feel as though the public views professional athletes as people who are rich for no reason, or have little to show for their wealth. But I tend to see this culture very differently.
Looking over these source files I saw many action based sports clips that grabbed my attention. I intend to use these as the basis of my project. But what I want to focus on is the risk and danger presented daily in these athletes “work.” Starting off with impressive plays and combinations I want to introduce the glorified side of the profession and let viewers be comfortable with my main ideas. But then I want to mix in certain sports accidents, wipe outs, tackles, illegal conduct and dangerous play. I will keep a consecutive order and only show the clips featuring the “risk and danger” for a sport after showing the clips featuring the “glorified actions” of that same sport. This will show the differentiation and the shocking truth of a sport that I’m trying to uncover quite clearly.
I’m not exactly positive what sports I will be including because it fully depends on what material I am able to find. That being said, I would like to focus on football for the effects on the head from tackling, soccer for the effects on the legs from tackling, race car driving for the effects on the entire body from crashing, and finally hockey for the effects on the entire body from both hits and fighting involved in the sport.
For my project proposal I have come up with the idea to make my video follow the life of a bunch of different under sea creatures onto some land creatures and back to undersea creatures. The video starts out zooming in on a herring coming into the water from on land. Then it cuts to a bunch of white birds swimming. Then they go under water and the video pans to fish just swimming around. Then then it goes into a coral reef. Then it goes to another fish eating a smaller fish. From there another fish that looks the same is eaten by a shark. Then the shark breaches and eats a seal. After the seal is eaten the video goes to a pod of dolphins jumping out of the water. Then the video goes from the dolphins to a killer whale. The killer whale goes and eats a penguin. I’m not exactly sure where it goes for a little while after that. But eventually a penguin goes in the water and sees a fish. The fish gets away though. Then it goes back onto fish. As the video goes the fish get bigger and bigger and scarier. At a point it is going to be obvious they are in another part of the ocean. The ocean goes to a river where an alligator or a crocodile mulls some kind of animal, then eats it. Then there is another video of an alligator or crocodile swimming away off into the distance. After that happens the video ends zooming in on an aye aye whose eyes get bigger and bigger as the video goes on. I liked this ending because it is almost like the aye aye is scared about what is happening in the eco system. He is afraid he is going to be next. I also thought he was really cute too so I want him to be a part of my video anyways.
One of today’s political issues is the rising cost of higher education. I will explore the topic from the perspective of greed from both sides of the argument, and leave the viewer with his/her own thoughts to churn through. My video will not take a particular side. Both are to be criticized through perspective. The goal will be to create a negative reaction, creating political tension out of an (hopefully) unbiased video. I see today how politics creates many negative emotions on social media. Users are all too ready to share a video or article supporting their views. I want to create something does not vouch for either side and see if viewers become more opened or closed minded.
I’ll be taking some footage from elementary school’s and overlaying them with political speeches over the last couple decades (or few if needed) and other commentary on the topic. My visuals will come from http://www.pond5.com/stock-video-footage/1/school.html#1 and https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rising+cost+of+education, but it’s too early to know exactly where I will be taking audio from.
The video will begin with commentary condemning rising costs of education, since this video will mostly be viewed by college students, and then alternate back and forth with the other side of the aisle.
I would like to make my video seem dark by adding color layers and visual effects to distort images. I do not know how to do this yet so it will be my goal of the project. This desired visual effect layered with commentary will emulate a political ad one might see during an election race to undermine the competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT-LN5-Edw The goal of these TV ads is to get the viewer to take the stance of the video by making the other side seem incompetent or evil. It usually comes off as cheesy, but I want my video to have the familiarity of a mainstream political ad.
When I was looking at creative commons videos on the Prelinger Archives there were a lot of videos about drug awareness. So for my video I decided to focus on the issue of drug addiction. I want to alternate these old videos on drug addiction (attached is an example of this type of video) with videos from more modern times that romanticize drugs/provide insight into views on drugs today. I’m considering using music videos as the modern videos in this project. I want to use the song “Heroin Music” by Grieves (attached), but I’m not sure if there are additional songs I want to use.
The point of this video is not to endorse drugs but to bring awareness to drug addiction. I want the viewer to see the different opinions people have on drugs and how views have changed over time because I want to focus on vintage videos from around 1950. I want the video evoke a somber feeling that makes the viewer think.
I don’t have any experience with video editing, so I want to keep this video simple. I will mostly use the techniques of cutting out short clips and as well as things such as repetiton, and slowing down and speeding up clips. A concern I have about my video is that I want to incorporate video clips with sound and also a song with lyrics. I don’t want either to distract from the other so I need to figure out how to do this in a smart way.
https://archive.org/details/DrugAddi1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVWbmVFUR0
In this project, I am attempting to create a short video of the city of Pittsburgh that showcases the history, scenery, and local flavor of the area. Most of the sources of the video that I will be using are Vimeo and Youtube sources (listed below) that were shot by either organizations around the area or people that live within the city’s vicinity. The challenge will be to put together both professional and amateur footage in a way that is cohesive and blended into a presentable product.
Using the source material that I gather from around the web, I plan to create a tourism advertisement. With additional effects such as title cards, overlays, and transitions between video scenes, opacity adjustments, and filters, I will attempt to capture the essence of what makes Pittsburgh special to its citizens — whether that is the environment, the food, the art, or the local culture. The end goal is to entice people to learn more about the city and coordinate a visit to see it in person and to express my own civic pride. That will be accomplished by the pastiche that I create with the materials and the call to action at the end of the clip (to visit the tourism bureau’s website/visit the city today).
Technically, the creation of the video will require the ability to slice segments out of pre-existing clips in multiple formats (downloaded and captured from their source), the addition of transitions and fades between those segments, the overlaying of title cards and descriptions, plus the layering or mixing of multiple audio tracks. I know how to do some of these things already, but will require additional research on text overlays and audio mixing within Adobe Premiere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXnoA5N859I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qri3VhRQA7Q
https://vimeo.com/121993211
https://vimeo.com/118258995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6OLkQQnG8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVK3cuxCU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VeET2xrOZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEv0WwRXyg
https://archive.org/details/SailingDowntoSteeltown
https://archive.org/details/Plant_Fueled
https://archive.org/details/Bus_Stops
Motivation is something that we all seek in order to give us the mentality to do something, or to accomplish our goals. In order to assist people in finding the motivation to complete tasks and reach their goals I will be taking footage and audio from athletes, scholars, and other individuals that many esteem to be like. I will obtain my footage from places like the following:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScQ-ad9gR9M
-http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2009/01/to_give_you_a_b.php
I would like to alter the footage in such a way so that the viewer feels empowered and confident after watching the finished product. I will arrange the footage and audio, so that there is some interplay between the speeches. In this I mean that the content of the speeches may run together in order to make them seem seamless and almost like it is one speech that is being read by many individuals. This audio will overlay footage of some great accomplishments that have been achieved over the course of time.
The reaction that I am looking to evoke from my audience is a sense of hopefulness and accomplishment. I’m hoping that every individual that views this remix will see it as an opportunity to better themselves and succeed in every facet of there lives.
In terms of video editing techniques I plan to use various transitions and filter on the footage in order to engage the viewer in an exciting and emotional manner. At the same time I plan to use audio as a very significant source of empowerment to compliment the theme of the overall production. I’ve have employed these techniques in my previous work in video editing and see no obstacle in path aside from learning the overall interface of Adobe Premier Pro in a Macintosh Operating System. I look forward to empowering individuals with my production.
For my video assignment, I’m going to keep chugging forward with the idea I had for the short video clips we made in our last class. I want to use robots and turntables to create some kind of remix, most likely a song of sorts. I will utilize the different sounds the robots make along with different music as the audio for my video. I hope to honor the late and great David Bowie in my video by using one of his songs, probably either Space Oddity or Under Pressure. I plan on using turntable footage I have already found that is creative commons and add in famous robot footage that I’ll most likely find on YouTube, like that of BB8, Robby the Robot, and Noo-noo (the Teletubbies robot). I’ll probably rip the audio tracks off of YouTube videos as well. The kind of reaction I’m looking for with this video is one of nostalgic joy and the usual amazement that accompanies someone watching something that seems out of this world. I want my video to take my viewers on an adventure where all their old robot buddies from their childhood and beyond get together and throw down a nasty beat. I still don’t know much about video editing techniques yet, but I know I’m going to need to learn how to lay a different audio track over a video track so that I can have the song in the background at all times. I plan on cutting up different scenes with robots in them to make it look like they’re all collaborating together to make a song. If I have enough time, I’ll try to have different video footage even for repeated parts of the song. I also hope to mess around in some of the after effects and see if I can find a way to fade my video in and out to go with the beat to my song. Hopefully it all works out for the best.
For my remix project, I would like to compile clips of old technology and create a song out of the sounds from those clips (or at least layer repeated video clips with other music to create a new song). While I was searching through the Creative Commons clips last week, I noticed how many videos seemed to be lost and forgotten. Many videos of technology are out of date but are time capsules to how technology was in the past. All of the beeps, switches, and typewriter clicks might make for a good song and an interesting way to revitalize unused video clips. Gathering inspiration from Daft Punk’s Technologic, I want to see how technology can be a new kind of instrument.
For that reason, I will mainly use very short clips (around one second each) together and in rapid repetition. I have some experience editing on Adobe Premiere, but I haven’t used it in a few years. Using the skills I do have in Premiere, I will take longer videos and find “gems” of sound and use the cut feature on Premiere to slice up the longer videos into tiny segments. I might also try to layer the sounds over one another by having more than one audio track on Premiere. The clips that I plan to use are mostly creative commons. The videos do not need to be perfect in how they were shot because they will be used in such short succession. The goal of my project is to create something that looks and sounds nothing like what the original videos present and, in a way, to make the old new again. This video will hopefully be catchy and evoke a reaction of excitement and enjoyment from its viewers.