Editing Third Week

In this third week of editing I have been adding some examples of my work and then a sound track and effects to my video.

From my original pre-production I wanted to add some examples of my work into a scene where the camera zooms over my shoulder and then focuses on the screen. From this I wanted to make it look as if the images where actually being shown on the screen of the computer. After trying a few different ideas with this, such as resizing the images and changing the opacity of the top image to make it blend in to the screen I decided that the contrast between the original jpeg images and the video I am trying to blend them into was just too different and it couldn't be done well without major editing of the images before importing them. So as a new idea I cut from the video scene of the screen and then went to a slideshow of the images in a sequence, I then changed the opacity of the images a little to make them look less white and bright and go better in the sequence of the film. The files were originally brought into Final Cut Pro by saving them from Illustrator and Photoshop as jpeg files and them importing them in and finally placing them in the video timeline.

After that I wanted to add sound to the sections of my video without dialogue. Adding a music track for the non dialogue scenes and then sound effects to a scene in the video where I speed up my typing for comedy effect. The sound files I found as mp3 files from the internet, I then imported them into Final Cut Pro and placed them in a audio channel below the video, cutting the track where appropriate.