Hello! I'm back, and this months blog post is about our new project that is called "Retiming Nature". Nature can impact your life in a few ways whether you realize it or not. Nature keeps you alive. All plants like trees, and flowers give off oxygen, and us humans cant live without oxygen. nature can also impact your life by making you happy. If you are having a hard day, and you go outside and look at how beautiful the day is, it might be able to cheer you up a bit.
Time-lapses and slow-mo's are basically complete opposites. A time-lapse is created when you take a video of something for a long period of time and then later in an editing program you sped it up so that all of the action that was taking place in the shot is now happening really fast. With slow-motion it is the complete opposite. To make a slow-motion, you need to get extremely close to the subject, and take a video of fast actions/movements. And when you edit it later instead of speeding it up, you are gonna slow it down, so the actions that were happening really fast are now happening really slowly.
While creating this project I had my ups and downs, and some things were easier to do then others. I would say the absolute hardest thing was probably writing my poem. It took lots of thought, and time. It had to be a 45-55 second poem when it was read, so I needed to write a 22 line poem. It took a good 2 weeks to completely finish writing it since wanted it to rhyme, but once it was finished it sounded good. Working on this project was fun for a few different reasons. I got to get out of the house and film in nature. I even went hiking up the sleeping giant mountain with two of my friends. It was a lot of fun, a great experience, and it made for a great time lapse. Besides all of that, I really enjoyed the whole editing process in FCPX I love to just sit for a wile and edit a project. I love to see all of my hard work finally come together as one final finished project.
Time-lapses and slow-mo's are basically complete opposites. A time-lapse is created when you take a video of something for a long period of time and then later in an editing program you sped it up so that all of the action that was taking place in the shot is now happening really fast. With slow-motion it is the complete opposite. To make a slow-motion, you need to get extremely close to the subject, and take a video of fast actions/movements. And when you edit it later instead of speeding it up, you are gonna slow it down, so the actions that were happening really fast are now happening really slowly.
While creating this project I had my ups and downs, and some things were easier to do then others. I would say the absolute hardest thing was probably writing my poem. It took lots of thought, and time. It had to be a 45-55 second poem when it was read, so I needed to write a 22 line poem. It took a good 2 weeks to completely finish writing it since wanted it to rhyme, but once it was finished it sounded good. Working on this project was fun for a few different reasons. I got to get out of the house and film in nature. I even went hiking up the sleeping giant mountain with two of my friends. It was a lot of fun, a great experience, and it made for a great time lapse. Besides all of that, I really enjoyed the whole editing process in FCPX I love to just sit for a wile and edit a project. I love to see all of my hard work finally come together as one final finished project.
Critique Reflection
I agree with the results I got from the class critique. I completed all of the requirements, but there was still lots of things I could of done. I could of rerecorded my voice over so that there weren't little spots in my recording where it was louder then others.
I agree with the results I got from the class critique. I completed all of the requirements, but there was still lots of things I could of done. I could of rerecorded my voice over so that there weren't little spots in my recording where it was louder then others.