So, while I was over at Gawyn’s house, beating him effortlessly at Fifa 13, a game that I haven’t planned in 4 years by the way. He was showing me his vinyl collection and he produced a pink Drive soundtrack vinyl, which I was in ore of. I figured why not make a short film documentary type thing to get some extra practise in before we start filming our full documentaries in a couple of weeks. This is the result of what we produced. Leave feedback on Vimeo or YouTube if you don’t have a wordpress account it would be appreciated. This was recorded on a Canon 550d (T2i) with a 50mm f/1.8 lens and I shot in 1280×720 @ 59.94 fps so I could get some smooth slow motion. I used an after effect plugin called twixtor to slow down some of the footage to ½ speed.
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So, on our final day of college we were all given free tickets to the London Olympics being held over summer. This was due to us doing crappy stop frame animations that I won’t do you the displeasure of sharing. The upside to the project is obviously getting the tickets and an all day travel card but also the opportunity to do some filming. I decided to take my 50mm f/1.8 lens, which in hindsight wasn’t the best idea. Even though with was brilliant at getting good night shots a lot of the shoots were out of focus. Also a lot of the footage was shot while we were walking around the Olympic park / village area which made it quite shaky which I tried to fix in post. Speaking if editing even though it’s a modern time and video, I wanted to create a retro feel. I did this by using an old school song and adding some purple vibrant but washed out colour grading as well as some film grain for good measure. A big feature is I synced the footage the soundtracks snare drum with jump cuts. I think it keeps the visuals interesting and flow better. I did this mainly for the memories.
So, because I made my own logo and people of the Internet were intrigued by this they constantly asked me to make them intros. For the longest time I was reluctant because I’m lazy but I thought a good incentive for me would be money. I started charging people for a simple logo and a quick intro animation for £10. I think this little side project was successful. I was able to get some logo and graphics design practise as well as earn some quick cash.
I also made some speed arts of me working on the logos and intro which can be seen below. Message me on YouTube or Twitter if you want your own.
So, I made it. Literally woke and started making this. This video was really fun to make not only because of the stylish cinematography but also because I made the soundtrack using my limited logic pro 9 skills. I feel more proud of the video because all of it is my work. Originally I wanted this to have a mix of normal shots and slow motion shots but the shots I have aren’t the best and I would like to get better ones with a tripod maybe. I going home for Easter and I will be using my camera a lot during that time because I’m making a documentary, so I will squeeze in some cat time 😉 I will hopefully make a more developed version of the soundtrack for kitten cc’ed 3 once I learn a bit more about logic.
Just some general info about the video and equipment used for those who will ask. I used a Canon 550d (T2i) with a 50mm f/1.8 lens and I shot in both 1280×720 @ 59.94 fps and 1920×1080 @ 29.97 fps.
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Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed and part 3 after I do my documentary!
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