Reviewing edit /evaluation
Local tour – Vimeo – unit 22
Day 1 September - September 19th 2011
During day 1 I captured all the footage/footage of my card.
I then opened up Final Cut Studio and tested out a few pieces of music to a rough edit. I then began to put my footage into the timeline and edit, i found that allot of the footage i filmed was not going to be used so i went through and chose the footage with the most meaning. I.e.: the boy looking over the wall at the water fall, i thought it was great how people come to look over at the waterfall and relax. i kept the sound of the water rather loud to represent a persons problems being cleansed or washed away.
Another shot i chose to keep becuase of meaning was the very first "Derby wheel shot" i like to think it represented the cycle of a daily night in Derby i tried to make this clear throughout the video by using 'Derby big wheel' shots continuous as the video progressed as if the video was the entire length of the night.
During the production my only memory card fast enough for recording footage filled up and i wanted to go out and get some last minute shots. i then came across this video
and thought how brilliant light-drawing looks as video and how interesting it is to show people around a location, i then got my camera and took multiple long exposures from the same position to create 'moving image'.
whilst editing i used two of these types of video-drawings. the first one was to introduce people into the city as the lines of the road represent travelling, entering / the fast paced blurry lines made the shot look calm and exciting as people are when going out during the night. The second use of this technique was to show people being unaware of things around them [being drunk] or the night has gone so fast and they've enjoyed it so much it's all been a blur, i added sound effects of traffic to represent people going home and getting in other peoples way after a night out.
The final shots are time-lapse of the main intercity-traffic junction represent people coming and going into the city as if it happened so quickly, i also used ramping [gradually slowing and speeding up footage] to give the shot a very unusual look and make out that things are very unique during night time.
The final shot of the Taxi's is to exit the video as people genuinely use this mode of transport to get back home and i felt was a good way to show this as there was more than one taxi as if the drivers are waiting as it's there normal daily routine.
Music
i chose a mixed beat piece of music as it was made by a documentary composer called Simon Wilkinson - this particular piece of music has very Blade Runner Type dramatic beats and ambient hums which i think is perfect for a night time based exterior video as it gives the calm but mildly dramatic ambience which is usually the connotations with night time based films.
i also like how the song has beats which happen only now and again as i gives the video suspense and randomness which lines up with how a persons night out may happen.
The use of slow cuts and slow music is to allow people who have never seen the city before get and understanding of where things are, this is why i used the 'Big wheel' as a symbolic icon of central and allow people to reference how far or close they are away from shot locations.
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