Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Project Evaluation #6 - Found Footage

The Found Footage / Collage editing projects were all outstanding. I had a lot of fun working on this and finding the clips I was going to use. At 1st I had no idea what I was going to do so I went to archive.org and got myself lost inside their vast library of clips. i eventually came across this movie trailor from the 1940's for a film that I don't think ever existed. I thought it was hysterical the way the announcer in the clip was describing the movie so i decided to use that as my audio formy fake movie trailer. I had my idea so I was ready to roll. I eventually found this World War II documentary which had a plethera of amazing footage I could use. I began to match the keywords in the dialogue with clips to match. Once I had them together I came to the end and felt it needed something more. I looped the sound clip of "Doom" about 20 times and matched the word doom with a different clip. i was going to call the project "Doom" or "War Trailer" but the last clips i used had the text on screen saying Sabotage and then Strike so the project became known as "Sabotage Strike". I really like the reception it received in class and was happy that everyone liked it. I thought it was easy to do and I might do this on my own for fun because it was so easy and enjoyable. Great project. I was really impressed by "Iraq Attack" by Adrian. Bin laden didn't blow up the projects it was you....Well done by everybody in class.

Project Evaluation #5 - Project 3- Class Project

I was amazed how the strips came together so well. It seemed to have forward movement and I liked the theme of sports that we used. It worked well and I had a fun time working on it in class. My part of the project was to add sound using dialogue. With the theme of sports I knew I could find some interesting dialogue from movies. I went to moviesoundcentral.com and downloaded clips from Major League, Raging Bull, and Jerry Maguire. Unfortunately there weren't many sports movie sounds on the website so I had to dig deeper. i eventually found some interesting dialogue clips from Naked Gun, Predator, Dumb and Dumber and so on. All in all I really liked the work everyone did on this project and I think the end result was amazing. I liked the alterations done with color when that clip was changed to an orange hue. The sounds were excellent and the editing was spot on. Great job everybody.