Month: March 2015

For this sketch I’ve decided to experiment with how music changes how a vine is potrayed.

In this sketch I’ve placed music track over the original footage to see how it would affect the structure. Thankfully the music was provided freely iMovie. Rather than exploring how I can apply this to a Vine-like structure, I decided to see how music affects the footage.

First of all, the choice of music I made falls into an “action” sound effect as do many other action movie when running away from baddies, they play similar sounding music in them I believe this is because the music is fast tempo, general that really work well with the sudden change in content within the video. I’ve also learned that in order for a video like this to really work, you’ll need as much time as you can get which doesn’t really I find doesn’t really seem appropriate for a Vine. The reason for this is because footage like this takes time to build up so as to make a larger impact.

Music was taken from the playlist iMovie provides.

Sketch 3 Idea:

How would it look like if we were to record a simple 6 second video everyday for a couple of days combine them in the end?

For this video, i explored a little more on the aspect of “dragging out of content” from sketch 2 and try to work around my limitations, aka time. As you can see each scene is all very short in order to fit as much content within a short time frame.

What work for this video was that the narrative, even though random, the narrative that it is  video looking into the life of someone because of the many different content in the video. what did not work, i  feel was that each scene is too rushed, and in one part of the video i tried to do it several times to prolong the scene but it looks messy.

In this sketch, i’m attempting to essentially ‘drag out’ a Vine video, similar to the whole ‘micro-series’ concept however, rather than splitting it up, drag it out, extend the duration probably to a minute or more; this is done while keeping the whole format of how a typical Vine video is structured. 

Still working within a ‘short-video’ time frame, I’ve decided to drag out footage and see how I can work with more content in a Vine. Unfortunately, dragging out content means more time will go into each scene therefore it was impossible to do it on Vine itself due to the time limitation.

In terms of dragging out content, it was difficult to do it on vine as i mentioned above, vine does not allow me over 6 seconds. Hence, the program I’m used to film was Snapchat where you can record 10 sec micro videos and combine them into a long one with no limitation to time. And  to record this footage is on the Snapchat app – it’s video quality is the same as vine, and the file sizes are not too big so essentially it just a longer vine on a different software.

What I felt worked in this sketch was that by dragging out the content of the video, I was allowed much more time to work with because i do not have to limit myself with just a nanosecond of footage and it gives the video a different concept a little less rushed, so people can actually understand what they are watching. However, what could’ve made this piece work better is if i manage to do it on Vine instead of another software.

Sketch 1 Idea:

Specifically working with a microvideo, what if we combine a series of microvideos to create in a sense a ‘micro-series’?

In this video what i did was to combine three separate vine videos and join them together to form a “series” in the style of a Vine being mainly focused on expression and reaction cut together rapidly during editing. The only flawed area in this sketch is that, it has not met the duration of a Vine.

The individual vines were taken by phone, mainly because i needed the Vine app to produce a vine, specifically because if you take a normal video on your phone, it does not allow you to save after each small segment you made onto the device and continue when you want to.

The technical side of things were fairly easy to deal with, in order to get the simple close up i just had to bring my phone closer to the subject and as for pausing in between shots, Vine has a “save for later” function, so each time i’m done with a scene, i save the scene and continue after the necessary arrangements. as for combining the videos together, i used iMovie as i’m more familiar with it to just join the individual vines into a the video you seen above.

What I found could work better in this video was perhaps the duration of it. I’d either have to make the scenes a lot shorter and straight to the point and find a way to post it on vine rather than Youtube.