Final Project

https://youtu.be/tl6vF98auMk

CCR

https://youtu.be/9zOgMUIcs2M

Music... part 2

Today I am really excited since I got the email response I was so patiently waiting for. The rights of the song I wanted to use are owned by the songwriter's (Simon Diaz) daughter. Luckily, my dad was able to help me with this. He works in the television industry and had worked before with his music, so he was able to give me the email of his daughter, Bettsimar Diaz. I emailed explaining my project and that it would be such an honor to use her father's song. She politely responded and told me to send her the credits and purpose of my video. I did and today i got this:

I already put the music into my video and it was definitely the last detail it needed. It brings the purpose together. I think I am finally done with the editing par, I am just going to take a few days away from it so I can come back and see it with fresh eyes and see if I want to change anything.

Editing

For editing I had first planned to use Imovie for organizing and cutting my shots, and for any effects I wanted to add I would download a free 7-day trial of Adobe's After Effects CC program. This is not what happened.
First, I downloaded all the videos from my camera to my Macbook, I opened Imovie and started organizing the scenes. When I arrange the sequence that I liked, I started to edit and cut the minor details until I liked it. Then, I wanted to insert and Island into the scene so for that I knew I would have to use After Effects. I opened the program and realized I could not transfer the video from Imovie to After Effects. This was extremely frustrating. In order to solve this I had to download a different program called Premier Pro. So I had to start all over again, but at least I already had an idea of what it should look like. I did it again, and then transferred the video to After Effects. In order to do the insertion of the Island I had to find a photograph from my picture library of my trip to Exumas of an island and then Photoshop it to match the background of the video and also edit it so it would look sort of like fake, creating an effect that is clearly exaggerated.

When I had the picture ready, I then searched a tutorial on youtube how to insert an image in my video. It was very helpful.

When I had my insert ready, I proceeded to work with the Premier Pro program. I had never used it before, but I watched the tutorial that comes with the program and learned pretty quickly. I made the decision to make few cuts and have continuos scenes to show the passing of time. When I finally finished editing the only thing I was missing was the permission in order to incorporate the music and the voiceover. 

The narration was one of the hardest for me since I had to figure out what parts of the "legend" where going to be said and how much was going to be said. I kept rewriting over and over again, and trying different audios using my voice as an example until I finally had it. I was unsatisfied with the amount being said but it was what would make sense.

I asked my friend, Cristobal, to record those lines and then send them to me. I only took him a couple of minutes and a few retries to get it right, so I inserted it not the audio. Now the only thing I am missing is the rights of the song I want to use, which I am waiting on an email response. Hope I get it soon!