Trainspotting Mood Board

Every Picture Tells A Story

For this task we were sent off with a camera to experiment with different camera angles and come up with six images that told a short but clear story.

CityScape Practice Piece

CityScape Editing Sequence Evaluation

In this editing sequence different shots of London were used to make up the video. I broke up the scenes using the razor tool and moving them around, making the clips more interesting and putting them into, what I thought was a better order. Some parts of the video I sped up by changing the speed/duration of that particular clip. I felt certain parts had to be either sped up or cut as they were too long or showed too much of the same scenes, I changed them so that the video wasn’t repetitive or dragging on. I also slowed certain parts down, so that they almost look like they’re in slow motion. I also did this by changing the speed/duration of the clip.
My edited ‘CityScape’ video is approximately 30 seconds long, which I think is long enough to get many scenes of London included. Some of the clips I chose to use, showed the scene from different angles. In these scenes I chose to split it up where it changed the angle, again using the razor tool. I broke up these scenes so that it wasn’t the same thing being shown all at once and it made it look like there was more to see.

Transitions

I used quite a few transitions between the different scenes. These include; Cross Dissolve, Centre Split, Wipe and Cube Spin. I think the Cross Dissolve was the most effective transition that I used because it slowly fades into the next scene, making it clear that we are being shown another part of London. I also thought that the Cube Spin was good and I chose to use it between two different scenes of two different crowds. I did this to make it clear that this was a new scene.

Music

The piece of music that I chose to use is called ‘Modern Jazz Samba’. The main reason I used this is because I think it ties the different scenes in together well. I also think it goes with it well because it is quite upbeat and relaxing at the same time. I slowed down the music slightly and made the duration longer so that it would fit in better with the pace of the video.
I chose to add a title in at the beginning of the video.

Title

I named the video ‘CityScape’ and chose a font and colour that could clearly be seen over the background of the video going on behind it. The font is quite large and in the top middle of the frame so that it easily catches your eye but doesn’t draw your whole attention away from the video which is already playing. I put the title over the video instead of showing it before the video had started playing because I thought it was important that the title wasn’t made to be more important than the actual scenes of London City.

How I Would Improve The Video

If I was to re-do this task I would make the music slightly longer so that it carried on a little after the video had finished, as I think this would make the whole video seem more effective overall and at the moment I think the music ends very abruptly. I would also make the scene of ‘Commuter shot of feet’ shorter as I think it goes on for a little bit too long.

Katie Media