Tuesday 15 September 2009

The After Math /Organising and Re-arranging

Organising the photographs.



After taking the photographs, i flicked through them holding down the right button on the camera this gave me an almost quick incentive in to what the video was going to look like, i was really happy with the effect of the outcome, i really felt i had captured the right footage for my video and i was almost certain this would be enough footage for the 3 minute production. I took 1034 pictures in two hours, merly just keeping the shutter on continuous. I made sure i charged my camera on full the night before so that no camera delay would interrupt the amount of seconds, i need the amount of seconds between each picture to be the same so that the stop motion is able to run correctly without odd delays or blackouts, blackouts being when the amount of seconds between each picture is to long causing a shutter delay/pause.


this is not to do with my music video but i thought it would be cool to post it on here:
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/pigeonsandpeacocks/2009/09/jade-danielle-smith/


Anyway organising and arranging is something that is fairly important if i am to create to this music video effectively, i deleted unnecessary pictures and placed them into a separate folder just in case i needed to go back to them.
After removing all the randoms, i made sure all the photos were organised.

Organising the photographs was a nightmare, sorting one thousand and something pictures so that they fitted accordingly with there continued series is something that takes allot of time.

Sorting the photographs so that there ready for overall editing for the music video.
So that the music video flows correctly without any delay i have sorted all the 1000 pictures into separate folders, all together 48 different folders, this has made it much easier to organise/ edit/ arrange and create the separate videos.
To make the video i am going to create separate videos with each collection of frames, then once i have got a collection of several stop motion videos, 48 in this case due to that's how many folders it took to sort out the pictures in to groups, i will use windows movie maker to put together the different videos, adjust the speed, the time delay how they fit in terms of order, whether to copy and paste particular frames to repeat motions, on going backwards, say like could speed up someone walking fast to one tempo and then repeat the frame only doing it backwards, so that it looks as if the person is walking really fast forward and backwards, this could be particular effective with the high tempo that comes with this song.

Anyway before i do that i need to make sure all the photos that i have separated into 48 different folders are sharp/focus enough for the video to be watched clearly. Also i am to edit photos indivually and in batch, considering the contrast the hues ect.


EDITING.

Photoscape

I am to begin to edit my photos via the program 'Photoscape' its a copy of 'Photoshop' though free from the Internet and with allot less editing software, its basic, but i can use it too its best. I suppose doing with what you've got to the best you can do. I have decided to use this software as i am familiar with it and i don't actually own Photoshop nor does the school, though they too have something else that is similar i am not familiar with the editing so i am to use 'PHOTO SCAPE', something that is wicked and easy to use and i think will be well suited in getting the overall outcome that i want from my video.

I had to sort the photographs into 48 different folders as when i uploaded the 1000 and something pictures, they uploaded or mixed and rambled this was annoying as this meant that i could'nt just copy and paste particular orders of photos they were all mixed. And so this took allot of time and effect to sort out.
I uploaded them into one massive folder and started at the stop clicking on each picture with Windows picture viewer, then sorting out which photographs went after that particular picture, dragging them into the first folder, i would scan down the folder looking for photographs that matched (say like the first twenty) and with stop motion videos needing a long line of pictures to make it work, i would say there was about 60 photographs per one stop motion sync. Its a bit like creating an animation making sure they all flow and are connected in sync with each other, this is very important if i am to make this video work.
I can't have rambles and mixtures of order, say like ten pictures of a person walking into the sea and then randomly it jumps to a surfer capturing a wave, it just looks messy. So before i was to edit the photos for contrast and hues i made sure that the order was in sync.
Now i am left with a large folder which inside contains the 48 folders of now sorted and syncing photographs that make separate stop motion videos which by the end of this long long process will all flow together nicely. As you can see this has taken allot of time, if this was to be done professionally I'm sure they would have some kind of specif software for this, or just a dozen different people to do different jobs, i suppose this occurs with any music video.










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