Multimedia Blog

After a lot of messing around and experimenting I have finished my final edit. I found that I had to do things the hard way on occasions because I'm not familiar with the software. I have basically imported my photos with the adjustments and filters I wanted and duplicated some frames to create a pause in the places where the character disappears. I did consider not using any filters as I think they usually damage the quality and the detail of the images but eventually I found one I liked and I thought it would be best to demonstrate that I had spent some time experimenting with photoshop. I took a small section of audio from an unnamed track I found on a promotional cd and sped it up very slightly to fit the tempo of my video. I tried to make the rhythm of the music fit the movement of the character and I think it worked quite well.

I also faded my music in at the beginning and out at the end using a sort of volume map in audio effects. I stuck with a basic title that overlaps very slightly into the opening frames of my video as I thought the templates and moving titles looked pretty tacky and powerpoint like.

I've exported my finished video and converted it from avi to mp4 and mpg. the avi file was too large to upload to youtube but the other two file formats have made my the quality of my video quite poor. I'm having some problems uploading my video to youtube now, even though i have reduced it to about 9mb and Andy wasn't here for the surgery today. I'm going to have another go uploading it tomorrow so it should be on my blog by the end of the week.

Labels: Narrative - Pixilation