Jabberwocky

The special effect that we used the best was the lens flare because it was easy to master and manipulate. We were trying to convey the mood that all the evil things are over and that the days of the people are going to be bright. We were trying to present the idea that the river/town was safe and nothing bad will happen as long as the townspeople stick together.

Spider-Man Trailer

This video is a parody/spoof trailer about the Amazing Spider-Man. It stars Isaiah Sanchez as Peter Parker/Spidey and Ashley as Gwen Stacey.

Symphonic Action

1. The story we tried to envoke in this video is that a boy has a dream. At first it starts out calm and melancholy and then turns slightly happier. We chose to place some of the band clips in the video just to show who is playing. As the tension rises we showed more images abstractly to convey excitement. When the rhythm stops the music turned somber and sad. As the music builds into the same rhythm in the beginning it turns melancholy and decided to stop showing more images. 2. The sequence that I choose is from 1:15-1:45. We tried to show that the boy is dreaming of becoming a baseball player. There was no particular choice in color just that to make seem mysterious and full of wonder. Taking consideration of color I feel that we used soothing colors to show some peace and tranquility within the video. 3. I believe that at least 35% of the video is abstract. There was no consistency of color because we wanted to have all the colors of the spectrum, not just one. 4. What I remember of using abstract images in films is that it gets the audience thinking about a certain theme. 5. I learned that music has to properly interact with images because they need to work together to convey the right message towards the video 6. The most important contribution my partner made was consulting me in the arrangement of the images and clips. 7. The most important contribution I made was editing the video together and applying special effects.

Strobe Lights

                   To do this effect is both easy and dangerous (by dangerous I mean you can get a seizure while making this effect, well effective). You just drag the video and add the desired strobe effect to the clip. then you drop the folder down and click stylize and you will see the effect strobe light. Isaiah added two more strobe light effects to increase the overall strobe light effect. Then you see a way to change the color and Isaiah left it white but for the second one he changed it to a bright red because I felt it needed more emphasis on the strobing. Then he randomly played with the effects of the way to edit it and we got lucky with the effects and then boom! This video clip was transformed into a super crazy strobe light machine.

Effect Bend

                    In order to do the bend effect, first you have to drag a video clip into the time line, then you open the folder video effects, and you go down to the folder distort. Then you add bend to the video clip in your video timeline. After you do that, go to the project panel and change it so that the video will easily change the way the video bends and moves in the clip. After you change the effects you can put in keyframes to change the way that the bend affects the video and how crazy it moves. It's an enjoyable effect and we had fun playing with it.

Why We Do Not Have a Star Promo Video

The reason why Isaiah, Ashley, and I do not have a star promo video is because we had to work on our director's cut video. As you, Professor Achterman, stated we had to make a director's cut before we can work on a star promo video. As we have not started a director's cut, we had to open premier pro. Then we had to select the proper video settings which was ntsc-dv 48kw. The project is now setup and we began import all the necessary clips for the video. Meanwhile the files were being imported we deliberated on how we are going to arrange the clips. We then started to pull the imported clips into the project timeline. We previewed said clips and decided to add titles to categorize them in order to clarify the purpose of the clips. We previewed the video once more and we figured that we needed some voice overs. Thanks to my voice acting experience we were able to get the proper tone of the phrases on the titles. We previewed the video and thought it was excellent. We now started to export the video. While it was exporting we had a brief discussion about who's channel we should upload the video to. In the end we decided to upload it to Isaiah's channel. The video is now exported and we can now begin the process of uploading the video. Isaiah signed in to his channel and selected the director's cut video. After that we celebrated and ask you, Professor Achterman, on what to do with the uploaded video. At first you thought we were doing a star promo video and then we clarified that it was the director's cut video. You were all "Oh. Then just post it on your blogs" and we were all "Okay!" This process took the majority of the class. And that is why we do not have a star promo video.