This video was actually not my original idea. But I don’t know if anyone has every tried to do a photo shoot with their animals, they don’t cooperate very often. So I went with my next best idea. I have been in a relationship for 5 year, we all have partners that have little things that may drive us nuts. Then there are things that we absolutly love about that person. To incorporate 5 I listed obviously the 5 things i love and dislike about her… Also if you’re paying attention in each picture and video there are things in 5. Can you spot them?        That voice sounds awfully like a Gnat I used know:)

By Laura Hale

Here is my concept of five for this project, I originally intended for there to be a bit more of a story with this video but due to time constraints I had to cut all of my footage down to the stars shining moments. Filming with animals, especially multiple kinds is difficult and requires a lot of patience especially if you want something specific from them. So the best thing I can learn from this project is to plan out things ahead of time and a lot more carefully, perhaps choose what a single animal can do as far as the number five instead of five different animals in very different locations. Otherwise, filming and editing was a tremendous amount of fun even though it was a short video, I’d wanted more special affects like speech bubbles but a file had gotten corrupted that had that affect unfortunately. Lessoned learned: check your affects before planning to use them.

I am new to this multimedia world and I have learned to recognize when an idea is a little ambitious and that I need to work to my own skill set. I chose to do something rather simplistic but still working with the five concept. I did not get a chance to really work with Wondershare but I will start looking into beginner editing software to find the one that works for me. The five concept I came up with was to throw my five matching knives which produce that “thunk” sound five times while “Five Elements Ninjas” (an ol’ school kung fu flick) played in the background. I found an effect on my camera that produced a kind of painted/watercolored look and I went with it. It turned into a fun game to get all five knives to take without knocking others out or missing completely, all in one take. All in all it was super fun.

Had a lot of fun with this project, Celldweller is by far one of my favorite artists so working with his music was great, I did get permission from him before hand(thanks to him for that). Working on this project i learned i don’t like free editing software very much, not enough options for transitions and other things. I didn’t add effects to the video because it made the images look kinda weird, after all they are images of space and are already awesome enough as is.

I chose space because it fit the motif of the album i chose the song from, Wish Upon A Blackstar. 5 doesn’t really mean anything to me so i just tried to have fun with it and add in lots of hidden 5s in the video. Have fun finding them all .

By: EJ Olson

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kc75NCdU78I
For this project, I wanted to do something ambiguous so as to let the viewer interpret the video the way they saw fit—that’s always my goal when creating something. I want the audience to come away thinking about what they just consumed.

I especially wanted to emphasize the melancholy in this scene, thus the black and white footage and the mellow audio. I envisioned someone coming home late at night, depressed and turning to the only two things they think they have—bad habits and music. The effects used during the pan across the vinyl records are used to help establish a sense of the passage of time, as if this were taking place over the course of a whole evening.

This was my first time using Adobe Premiere, so it was a good learning experience for me. Premiere is not only deeper than the video editing software I’ve used in the past, but also exponentially more complex. Simple things, such as adding a title sequence and inserting the fade effects, were difficult to employ at first. It was gratifying, though, to learn the ins and outs and produce a piece of work, even if it’s only 40 seconds long!

Notice the volume of the stereo and the number of records listened to that evening.

Music
Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Album: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Song: What Do You Go Home To?