As I said I am going to use Adobe Premier 6.0 that is installed on the machines in the games lab to edit my video footage. I got a firewire lead from the support office in order to transfer the footage across. I turned the camera on and turned it to the video mode to play the footage and in Premier I did capture, then capture movie. I selected the model of the camcorder, selected the highest data rate, also 25 fps and at the start of the project selected PAL for windows, as I am going to create the footage using PAL so it can be played. I then imported the footage and came to about 5 minutes, and taking up nearly a Gig space on the hard drive, quite a large file indeed.
Creating Project.
Capturing Video.
Now because I imported it as one complete clip, I dragged the file into the video1 in the timeline in order to start separating the footage into clips. Using the preview window and the razor tool I cropped the sections that I needed, sometimes having to zoom in on the timeline in order to get exact frames, copied and pasted them into the bins and named them. I organised and created bins and named them after the number shot and what the shot was. Because I had more then one take of a shot I placed the number of the same type of shot under the same bin, giving a sense of organisation. This made it very easy to find the shots I needed and drag them into the timeline.
Image of the cutting and organising process.
I removed the all the footage off the timeline so that I can now place the right shots in order. I found out that when I extended the footage by clicking and dragging It just played the next footage that followed, so by using the razor tool, the in and out points where automatically place and extending the footage just moved the out point which is useless to me. I used the help feature and the internet to look up, and found out how to change the duration and the speed of the footage, simply by right clicking on the clip in the timeline and changing the percentage of the speed and the time in the duration if I wanted to change this.
I used this feature for the first shot for the paper which will have the victims face on it as the target, and as it was only 2 frames long I simply changed the percentage of the shot a lot lower so it would last that much longer. I also increased the speed of the introduction of the hunter and decided on the pan shot as this looked the best, increased it by another 50% so it would not take up much time. I then clicked and dragged the rest of the shots in order from the bins and then noticed it was 4 seconds over the 10 seconds limit, so some major editing was in order to make it exactly 10 seconds. I decided to cut out the image of the victim on the piece of paper completely, speeded up the pan shot slightly.
As I have put several blank title shots in between the punch and the knee shot I just changed them to make them a little shorter. Some of the middle shorts of the sequence such as the hunter walking in, the point of view shot as well as the walking through the door shot slightly shorted. After this it actually came to 9.3 seconds, lower than I expected. To correct this I simply just modified the blank video at the end and extended it slightly to make it a 10 second piece.
Image of the editing so far, with the shots in order and reached 10 seconds.
I then added the credits at the end and a title page at the beginning showing the title of the piece, which is 'The Bounty Hunter', after all i did take a while to come up with one, simple but effective. At the end, who participated, filmed ,edited and the music track. The way I have gone is done the more of a serious route in which a voice over will be added saying “His Mission Is To Kill”, in a deep slow tone to add tension, while the soundtrack is playing not so loud o it can be heard, and then the music kicks in, as in fast paced, again to add the tension, keep the audience excited, a common technique used in the media, espically in films. For the music i took the first part of the music of the soundtrack, and at the end decided to put part of the sound, the ending where it says break and then the music cuts for the black screen at the end, to top of the tension when its at a high. I cut the music, imported it twice to modify both, the ending where it says 'Break', timed to when both of them hit each other, but at the same time is synchronised with the previous soundtrack that is playing, took a while but i think it came out very well. I edited the sound of both audio clips, so that the voice over is louder, i amplified it as well as the second part of the soundtrack, when the beats kicks in after the voiceover so it makes more of an impact.
Image of the music edited in and finished.
I didn't use many types of transitions, actually ust the one, a simple cut, as its a fast paced sequence and when seen in films they just use the cuts, as its quick and keeps the pace of the sequence the same, and to add to the speed a few quick shots in between the longer shots, such as that when the hunter walks into the room, which is just a split second. Now that the piece is finished all that is needed to be done is to show a few people the sequence and then get some opinions of what its like and then to finally export it into a format using different codecs etc so that it can be played of a DVD and a CD.
The opinions of my friends say it works well, the music is well timed and sounds correct. However the only problem some people said that it may be abit to much going on, but i think that even though alot is going on, i think its enough for the audience in general to take in and understand, as alot is said in the title of the piece and can be put together in how the piece unfolds.
