Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Child Soldier Documentary (Not Real)

This is a documentary about child soldiers in America.
I ran into a lot of problems:
First I didn't realize that iMovie cant rotate video filmed vertically to horizontally. I ended up with most of my video saved vertically. I only included some parts of what I shot and intend to re-shoot a lot of the different scenes for the final project. I also had a tough time editing out background noise in the sound. I did my best to eliminate the sound, yet I think nothing can substitute using a professional microphone.
I enjoyed doing the video because I got to do some creative writing and some voice over. This video is satire of the real issues facing the world. I tried to add some humor, yet many humorous scenes had to be taken out because of the vertical shots. If you find yourself leaning over during many parts of the video, look at the bright side, at least you get to streatch your neck.

1 comment:

camccune said...

OK, now I get it! This is going to be fun!

Obviously, there's a learning curve on shooting this stuff...sometimes resulting in a neck curve, among other things. (Yes, I watched it sideways; my neck is stretched!)

But I think your video and voiceover approach is going to work well for this project.

B