Project 4 was the final project of the semester and we used multiple applications, Premier by Adobe for Video Editing and Audacity to create a soundtrack. My emotion I was trying to invoke in this short video was peace. The shots are all of nature or familiar things to humans, such ads a corner store, a game of basketball, or biking. All of these things are where people blow off their stress and do something other than the usual grind of the day. I went to multiple parks, Yates Park and Chestnut Ridge Park where I shot the woods, the lake, and the gazebo. I was trying to show nature and the serenity that comes in a suburban town, which is especially quiet during quarantine. I worked hard on Audacity and created a soundtrack, but it somehow got deleted so I had to create another one. I have been using music software such as Fruity Loops for years before, and the layout is quite similar to Audacity, so I enjoyed creating a soundtrack as that is one of my strong suits on a computer. The videos were fun to edit and I especially liked the warp destabilizer that allowed the shots to look smoother than when I originally took them. Premier has a lot of cool effects such as fading and editing the sharpness of the clip. I experimented with them a lot, some I tried to give a vintage feel, well others I tried to create an abstract looking shot that was unique but still very much real. That’s why a lot of the videos look very different from each other as I could not stop testing out what looked best, which I think may have made the final product look messier than it could’ve been. However, overall this was a good experience and my favorite lab of the semester.
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