Experimenting with filming and editing 'The Door'

Below is an experimental project that we produced to practice continuity filming and editing. For the project we had to film somebody opening a door and walking through but when we film them coming out the other side of the door they appear at another location. So our main task for this was to make the transition as natural looking as possible and to keep the pace constant. We also had to investigate how the track on the filming would affect the way in which we view the video. For example a slower paced track would completely change the way we would have to film the video as we would have to try and edit the shots to the rhythm of the music. For our video we picked a fast paced track as we felt like this would make the video more interesting to watch and it would match the speed of the walking and the quick cuts. The techniques that we learned to use while editing the video will come in extremely useful when we are editing the real thing.

                             

I decided to speed up this clip (0:17-0:19) as I felt that this clip was slower than I would of liked it to be and this ruined the pace of the video as it didn't match the pace of the music we picked. I did this because I wanted to keep the sequence at a consistent pace throughout the whole of the video.

I right clicked on my piece of footage that I wanted to speed up and went into Speed/Duration

                                                 
                                               I then changed the speed from 100% to 
                                               150% so it would speed up the clip a tiny 
                                               bit so it would flow better with the rest of 
                                               the video.

Turning the video Black and White

To turn my video into black and white I went to Effect which is in the bottom left hand side box. 

I then scrolled down to image control and selected the option of black and white.

 I then dragged the black and white feature over onto my video footage which successfully turned my video B&W.

  To make sure that this would work when I uploaded it to YouTube I rendered my video.

Adding a title to my video

To add a title to my video I went to title on the top bar.

I then went down to New Title and went across to Default Still.

A small window then pops up where you can decide what height and width etc. you want things to be. Also I entered in the Name box what I want my title to say.

I then typed in the name of my title.

To save the title I just clicked the red X in the top corner.

Then I went over to the project page where all my videos are imported to and dragged my title to sequence and placed it at the beginning of my video.