Video Techniques

This is  a two minute video on death.  The intention is to be thought with the concept of death. The title of the move is Death: The Karmic Effects on the Afterlife.
The camera that I used was a MiniDV camcorder and the software was Final Cut Pro 7.

Another project that was required in this class was a music video. The video, of course, had to be as long as the song chosen. I  chose the Eurhytmics song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". For this video I made a stop motion pac-man theme using construction paper and hole-punchers. Naturally, not all of the characters (the evil, pac-man hunting ghosts) that I used were cut out by a hole- puncher. This video took me, over all, 48 hours to create. Now, it does have a very homemade "feel" to it. Basically because...well... it is homemade. I didn't have the tools to create a type of tripod or device that would hold my camera at a 90° angle to capture images on a flat surface. And being a poor, graphic design student that was on a ramen noodle budget, I didn't have the money to buy any equipment necessary for my idea. So, I had to make do with what I had. What's that saying our parents teach us when we are young? "When life throws you lemons...." Yeah it was kind of like that.

I honestly think all the work put in to making this video was well worth the effort! But of course maybe I'm just being a little bias.  :)

The software used to make this video was Microsoft Movie Maker and Final Cut Pro 7.