For my second assignment i chose to do a short youtube video which analyses an aspect of youtube. I thought of doing this after see’ing a video Nathan showed us in class which used just paper cut outs then editing it to fit. My video is called “The Success Of Trent” it is meant to represent how in only the space of a couple weeks the “Trent from Punchy” video shot right up to about a million and a half views. Now it has more 2 million views.
I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to do it. In the end I decided with paper and cutting out characters and sets. I wanted it show how the word about the video spread and then how everyone you knew would use quotes from the video that became ever so popular. I ran into so many ridiculous problems with this assignment when i probably showed of just done it at Uni and it could of looked alot better. These problems being my Mac not recognising my video camera.
It needed to be as simple and straight forwards as possible to get what exactly was going on. I had to write down a sort of script for when i did the voice over in order for it to all fit in time. I could always go back and cut and edit it togethor but the problem with audio is that you don’t actually have a image to look at to know where on the track you are. All the little characters i drew and cut out myself. I taped them to straws so i could move them around on screen. Another problem with this was that the camera had trouble focusing them on the backdrop.
I used the actual “Trent from Punchy” video and keyed it into my video to make it look like the kids are actually watching it. Then I cut and edit the audio to use his voice for his little character. The final product could have looked at lot better if i did something as simple as using a texter to colour the characters and the backdrop. I didn’t have time to redo it all.
It did all the fit togethor and all in time exactly as i planned. The voice overs all fit in pretty well too.
