For this "new thing to create or explore" through photography, I had to look up some interesting photography project ideas. A lot of them were what you might expect - 365 projects, working with black and white, etc., but I liked the ideas that had you work on a project by actually taking a picture of something. That's how I found this site that gives you plenty of ideas of things to take pictures of, especially things that you might not consider taking pictures of in the first place.
I especially liked the idea of taking pictures of doors and windows. Every door and every window is always different, always tells a different story, always leads to a new place (duh). I kind of fell for this idea of windows and doors being barriers we can easily take down, things that are easy to move to get the things we want. So, I went around and took pictures of different doors and windows in my house and other places around, and compiled this set of different doors, and windows.
I finally completed my final video! Such a relief to have all of them done, although I did have fun and learned a lot along the way. Most importantly, I learned that I love to edit videos...hopefully something I can/will keep doing in the future.
This video was not too difficult to make, but still had parts that were challenging, mainly with timing. I wanted the colors to fade and come back at certain times in the video according to the song, and since iMovie doesn't do a good job of letting you know what time you are selecting, this was a little difficult (if that makes any sense).
The first step in making this video was walking home and filming my route. This was probably the easiest part, aside from all the weird looks I got from holding my iPhone out in front of me all the way from the MLB to my house. After uploading, I realized that if I wanted to edit certain parts of the video I would have to split the clip, since I did the whole thing in one take. It took me a while to figure out how to do that, but I finally managed. After that I realized I had to speed up the video to about 300%, not only because a 6-minute video of my walk home would be awfully boring, but also because I liked the fast-paced and shaky motion of the video.
Next I played around with visual effects, changing the exposure, saturation, brightness and contrast to get the right filter. I wanted most of the video to look like some sort of a dream, so I used a filter with soft edges, upped the brightness and contrast, and boosted the color a little bit. I think I got a good end result. Figuring out the visual adjustments went along with timing the video to the song - I had to cut it up at just the right places (when certain beats drop) to add or take away the color of the clip. This was a tedious process, but I got the timing right where I wanted in the end. After adding in some title clips, slowing down the last part of the video and changing the color scheme for that part, I was done editing the video.
Let me know what you think!
PS. This is probably my favorite song right now...check out Summer Heart, they're great.
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