Video Analyses 2

 

DUST

 
This is a short film called 'DUST' starring Alan Rickman, Jodie Whittaker  Lola Albert.
written and directed by Ben Ockrent & Jake Russell.

This film is about a man who seemed to be some sort of stalker following a young lady and a little girl who might have been the daughter, picking up the girl and walking home after school not knowing that there is this man following and having an eye on them. Yet to find out that he actually is some sort of tooth fairy?.

 These are some screenshots that i took of the film from the begining scene where the girl is waiting for her mother at school.

This is a good scene because it already lures us into thinking that this is going to be some sort of stalker film or something scary...

 wide shot showing the girl waiting, and it looks like its shot behind bars,  as if its the view of somebody watching her.

 shot from the back, girl in focus looking at some sort of ice cream truck shows how weak and vulnerable the little girl is as if shes being watched by something more powerful.

 close up shot of the truck driving away....

 And then takes us to a shot of a man standing on the other side of the road staring away at the little girl as she awaits her mother showing his surroundings and whats around him.

Then a more close up portrait shot of the man showing what type of emotion and facial expressions he has that would mean something to the audience after seing the little girl being vulnerable and then having someone staring at them with a creepy unhappy face would mean quiet a lot.

For me i these shots from the first scene was enough for me to assume that this man was a stalker and predicting that this film was going to be a creepy one, and i guess the director was trying to have that effect on the audience, luring them into thinking the worst and then breaking it down at some point.

What i really liked about this film is how it gives you the creeps, its weird and confusing but still has meaning to it. It may seem like a thriller or some kind of kidnapper/serial killer type of film but its not, it makes you think that way and a lot of the scenes and shots make us feel this way, and to make it worse is the music in the background.

Audio Mixing video

This is a video of an interview that we just had to use to mix the audio to make it in our own way by adding in music and changing the volume around to go with the interview itself and to make it look apart of the video.

And here is some screenshots of how i edited audio and a few cuts to the interview.

Here you see the yellow track keyframes i used to put points to mark the audio on how i want to transition the sound, changing the levels of the audio the way i want it to sound in the interview, not only that but to make the music flow with the person speaking without over taking the audio from the interview footage.

And here is where i have hidden the track keyframes and also have finished cutting and transitioning my footage and happy with where everything is.

And then finished exported and published it:

Video Analyses 1

 SPLIT SCREEN LOVE STORY 

By James W Griffiths

    

This film directed by James Griffiths is a short film about two different people meeting up with each other at the end, and the things they did to get to each other from the moment they wake up to when they are together.

The reason why i really i liked this film was because ive never seen a split screen film before and it was new to me and therefore i found it creative, seeing something different.

The  camera shots were great and the way the shots were both very similar and it makes me wonder how can you film something and then try find something that's happening the same to make it into a split screen film? like how can you do that? haha. 

 

The music also suits the film with the concept of love, its not like love and then have a hip-hop song playing in the background, its more of a calm and more on the romantic side and it went well with the scenes.

My favorite part of the film would be the begining of the film because i like how it starts off when the characters get out of bed and get ready to go because i found it easy to edit and throw in my own sound effects for it as i change the music in the background.

I really enjoyed the storyline and the style of the split screen idea and i downloaded it and then edited it myself and made it into my own by re-cutting it and changing transitions and so on for the class task.

Memory film 1

Memory Film

This is a short memory film i made for our class task where we had to make videos with the concept of memory and this is my first one that i made out of the two.

I simply just used old footage  i shot last term with a few friends and just thought that i could use it for my memory film.

 I added into it to make it a whole was to just shoot the begining and ending shots where im day dreaming and then snapping out of it.

Start daydreaming scene

After daydreaming scene

I also changed the color from normal to black and white to suit the idea of a memory and going back in time but in my mind and it also helps identify that this is actually a thought, not the time present.

Original

 Editied

For sound i also added in my own little background music which i did turn down a little bit so we can still hear whats going on still without totally cutting it out. Also i played around with the volume of the clips and you will probably notice the volume of people talking turned down a little bit.

With cutting the video i just played around with the shots and finding what was suitable to make the whole film easier to understand by picking out shots that that i thought would make the concept of memory complete.

When i finished i uploaded it to youtube.

This is the link to my video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDvtGrbuJ4&list=UUxgWPulPKG5xylNywF3uraw

Edited Video activity

Love Story Film

This is a short film edit i made for the class task that we had to do where we find ourselves a film that we like and re-edit it to make it our own, that means cutting it up and adding effects and music and all types of different techniques and transitions to change up the video the video we chose and the video you see above is the one i chose.

After looking around to find something that was catchy and a bit simple for me to edit i found this one, and its a simple love story where a boy meets a girl, its a split screen video showing the view and what is going on with each person till the end of the video where they meetup.

So as this screenshot that i took shows the process of how i edited this film and made it into my own little love story. You can see that i have cut up a lot of parts where i thought would be great to go along with the music i put into it as well and the green bar indicates the music i used for you to see.

After i finished editing my video, i uploaded it to youtube.

Heres the url :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgfJtrGvSEM&feature=youtu.be