This was necessitated after our family trip to South Africa last October. Durban was one of the places we visited. Predictably, lots of photos and videos were taken that were to be sifted later for final inclusion in the video you see alongside.
The selection of the pieces was not easy. Personal choices part, the ones that were to be considered should be brief, shot well, and relevant.
Why relevant? Relevance here meant that the pieces could be stuck together to tell a story.
I feel this is important. A video without a story robs it of all the charm. Viewers quickly lose interest, which means all the work to make the video go waste. Above all, lack of a sticky story also means an opportunity lost.
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I hardly feel my video has a good story, but I’ve tried my earnest.
Coming to its making, the final video is a conglomerate of 6 mini videocam movies and 22 static images. 14 of the latter have been converted into moving image as if those too were videos.
There are 4 background scores and 3 narrations. Of these the first background score in course of our travel by car was recorded automatically from the car’s audio system. The other 6 audio pieces have been added separately.
2 background scores are taken from Kevin MacLeod’s collections.
To put in a nutshell, here is the breakup of 34 different video, image, and audio elements that have been assembled to make the end video.
- Mini video: 6
- Static image: 8
- Static image converted to motion: 14
- Audio: 6 +1 (with first mini video)
The purpose of this video here is to show how indeed it is possible to put together a seemingly wide variety of media pieces to make a single video.
Having done such work a number of times, I feel there are 2 things that require attention.
The first is that you need to know which are the software that can enable you do it. The second is of course that you have to learn those software.
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 This article of May 29th, 2009 is authored by Partha Bhattacharya, who runs this website. Catering to the clients' video needs aside, Partha also writes guest articles for other web publications. |
