On this project I used Windows Movie Maker for editing the video and Goldwave for editing the sound.
For this I went for a sadder sort of video, with loneliness as the main theme. It was inspired when I saw the opening shot of the movie, with the cameraman staring at this lonely swan. Initially I wanted to try to make something dramatic and dark about this swan, but didn't believe that would pan out. Using that clip as the starting point, I looked through other parts of the raw footage to see if I could find other shots of this solitary swan. Rather fitting how in one shot the swan lowers its head while stepping forward, such a depressed little fowl.
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| The pitch editor. This can be found by opening the Effects menu and selecting Pitch |
Now, none of the music as it was would certainly fit this theme, so I needed to edit it. I listened through the music samples to pick on any part of the music that I thought would sound good after shifting the pitch down a few semitones. Think I found a rather fitting piece, though I can't help but feel I could have made it fit the video more through editing. In particular the music seems to kind of wander off the end of the clip, but I couldn't work out a good way of cutting the music without altering the rhythm.
The final shot is a complete coincidence. While looking through this clip of ducks quacking away, only to go to deadly silence as soon as the swam came into the shot was too perfect to miss. A fitting ending I thought, seeing the ducks all swimming away from the Swan, poor thing is so lonely. This is why I left the sound in for this portion and I think it fits.
Conclusion
What can be taken away from this exercise is that from footage like this, where there may not really be a whole lot going on, narrative and meaning can be created through selective editing and with the right audio track.
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