The last few weeks of class have been spent working on our final projects. The instructor gave us plenty of lea way on what to choose here. For me this was a slight problem, I have a hard time making choices. At first I had decided to go with the more structured option 2 for the final but then changed my mind after having a photo shoot and editing several gifs for the project. I felt like my original idea might have been too provocative to use in any other context and I wanted to be able to use it again if needed.
So I then went back to square one. I was editing some concert videos I had recently taken one evening and had an idea to edit them together into a slide show of all the concerts I had attended this year for my final. I had also missed the mini documentary so I considered doing this for my final as well. In the end there just was not enough time for me to complete the mini documentary (both me and my subjects schedules where to busy).
Editing my concert photos and videos into a sort of slide show proved to be harder then I originally expected it to be. I am using the Openshot Video Editor software that I have downloaded on to my computer for free to edit the video and Audacity to edit the sound. But to edit any of the sound quality I had to first remove the sound from the videos and then use VLC Media Editor that I had to download to save the sound from the video as an mp3 file so that I could edit it in Audacity.
I edited the videos in Openshot (with some complications) and used Youtube to help look up instruction videos when I was not sure of how I wanted to do certain things. Turning videos the right direction was extremely difficult. The transitions are a little rough I had a hard time with getting them to flow right and Turning videos lead to all kinds of fun new things that didnt always turn out.
I had to pick and choose select videos and photos from the concerts as there was just too much content to add it all. The first concert I went to was a 3 day long festival and could have made its own slide show in all honesty. But I had a lot of fun completing this project. Even with the complications and the fact that Openshot saves extremely slow. And got a chance to reflect on a fun year.
My final product was uploaded to youtube. Here it is :