IST 646 Midterm Story Project
The creation of my first ever audiovisual project is akin to birthing a child. I have three so I can say this with some confidence. The final product is out now and I can’t change it. And it will probably take on a life of its own. But all the work that went into creating this product should be evident in the whole.
Once I got over the fear and overwhelm of seeing multiple timelines, and once I understood a bit of how the lines work in conjunction with each other, the rest became a matter of choosing the right images, transition, and sound effects to go with the narration. It is true what they say that there are several hours behind every minute of video. In my case, this was especially magnified because I have never created a video storyboard that incorporated music, audio transitions as well as visual transitions with the pictures/visuals and my narration. I have done many screencasts in the past for other courses but those were very straightforward, linear slides that didn’t need any transitions or music or any sound except my own narrating voice.
For this project, I am most proud of figuring out the transitions between images and finding just the right sound effects and music to go with the narration. It is not an exaggeration to say that I have devoted over twenty hours just for this under 3-minute video production. But those hours flew by as I would find myself several hours later still trying to fix transitions to match my narration. Then I would get engrossed in getting the sound just right or matching the narration with the visuals. There were also practical considerations of what type of visual would be most effective with the narrative? Cartoons, whimsical drawings, photographs? In the end I chose to splice multiple short videos from WeVideo’s collection and that in itself was a cumbersome process that forced me to think about every choice I made. But I learned how to find just the right slice and used transitions to meld them where it was most useful and effective.
Storytelling has taken on a new and different dimension for me.
Revised 4/4/2021 to 2 minutes 30 seconds length:
The creation of my first ever audiovisual project is akin to birthing a child. I have three so I can say this with some confidence. The final product is out now and I can’t change it. And it will probably take on a life of its own. But all the work that went into creating this product should be evident in the whole.
Once I got over the fear and overwhelm of seeing multiple timelines, and once I understood a bit of how the lines work in conjunction with each other, the rest became a matter of choosing the right images, transition, and sound effects to go with the narration. It is true what they say that there are several hours behind every minute of video. In my case, this was especially magnified because I have never created a video storyboard that incorporated music, audio transitions as well as visual transitions with the pictures/visuals and my narration. I have done many screencasts in the past for other courses but those were very straightforward, linear slides that didn’t need any transitions or music or any sound except my own narrating voice.
For this project, I am most proud of figuring out the transitions between images and finding just the right sound effects and music to go with the narration. It is not an exaggeration to say that I have devoted over twenty hours just for this under 3-minute video production. But those hours flew by as I would find myself several hours later still trying to fix transitions to match my narration. Then I would get engrossed in getting the sound just right or matching the narration with the visuals. There were also practical considerations of what type of visual would be most effective with the narrative? Cartoons, whimsical drawings, photographs? In the end I chose to splice multiple short videos from WeVideo’s collection and that in itself was a cumbersome process that forced me to think about every choice I made. But I learned how to find just the right slice and used transitions to meld them where it was most useful and effective.
Storytelling has taken on a new and different dimension for me.
Revised 4/4/2021 to 2 minutes 30 seconds length:
Well-done, Karina. This is a delightful story and it is not surprising that it took 20 hours for a well-executed 3-minute production.
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