Different Trains: Days 7, 8, and 9We are deep in final project production mode! Our first steps (on Day 7) included collecting video and recording ourselves playing on our instruments. Before we started shooting video footage we did a little planning based on all the different videos we have seen and talked about. We wrote down ideas for specific shots and for general moods we wanted to create in our pieces. We also re-listened to our audio pieces with shooting video in mind.
The we split into groups – one to do recording in the Media Lab with our instruments and the other to go outside and shoot video footage.
The next step has been to work on integrating our instrument recordings with our existing audio pieces and to import and sort through our video footage in preparation for editing everything. On Days 8 and 9 we did a lot of editing, taking breaks to look at each others’ work and offer feedback, and we focused on how to make editing choices about the relationship between our audio and video pieces. On Day 9 we also talked a lot about transitions, in video and audio. We watched a lot of videos to study the way other people have dealt with transitions as well as looked at some common transitions like match cuts, jump cuts, cross dissolves and how (and why) to fade in and out. We revisited videos we watched earlier to think about how they were edited, with special attention to the relationships between sound and image and to particular kinds of transitions. We also learned a few ways to create a few different kinds of fades in Logic (fade in, fade out, and crossfade).
We’d really like to thank volunteers David Lee, Lucia Lopez, and Justin Rosengarten for their wisdom and support! |
