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Last
week we uploaded the video clips we had and started putting them in
order. This week you should have all the video clips you need. You should have been thinking about background music, voice overs, and words you might want to add to your video.
Music:
First
of all, let’s be clear about the role of music in documentary
film-making - Essentially its primary role is storytelling. Driving the
narrative along
through a variety of moods. Scene setting. Building bridges
between interviews,
stock footage or animated sequences. In fact, for the majority
of the
programme, the music is playing a secondary role to the voice
over. Only
taking centre stage for brief moments before the voice returns
to the
forefront.
Therefore it’s important that your music creates the required mood
within around 4 to 8 bars (perhaps 8 to 10 seconds) as the scene is set
and the narrative prepares for the change of pace. This is not necessarily
the first 4 bars of the composition. You may choose to use a section from
another part of the tune when the instrumentation has built in pitch or
reached a crescendo. Therefore it’s always good to listen through
a track you think may be suitable to make sure you are utilizing it to
its full potential.
Of course, because it will often be playing under the voice it is good
to choose music that suits this role. Certain instruments include frequencies
that clash with the human voice whereas others enhance it. A lead instrument
often jars with speech whereas rhythmic passages with no lead instrumentation
will flow along with it.
Technically, you
can't use any music that an artist owns without their express written
consent - You are supposed to ask the artist's permission and pay them
for the use of their song. I doubt any of you have Rihanna or Katy Perry
on speed-dial, so you should try to use songs that are "royalty free"
which means you don't have to ask for permission or pay for them. Here
are a few sites to find music like that:
http://www.hibou-music.com/accueil.php?id=0&gclid=CMSrwZvIvbACFW1U4godwCabmA
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
http://www.stockmusicsite.com/default.cfm/agent.109929?gclid=CPjQm6XIvbACFcmi4godI0eOow
Okay, now how do you add music to your MovieMaker Project? The same way you add a voice over.
Voice Overs:
A voice over is when the sound/speech you are listening to is not from the video footage being shown at that moment.
The
simple way to do that in Movie Maker is to just add music or add an
already recorded audio clip by clicking on "import audio." Then drag it
down into the timeline below.
There are two kinds of voice overs we will talk about. One is when you
add your voice over the top of existing footage. The other is when you
keep the voice from one video clip while switching the image to other
footage or still photos. Let's look at examples of both in the "Bully"
trailer we watched a few weeks ago.
If you want to
overlay video and voice and music etc. it is more complicated. Windows
Movie Maker does not support multi-layered video/audio editing. But if
you have a video with a sound attached to it, you can add the movie to
project along with a music track.
So if have a video, the audio, and the music track separately, do this:
1) Open a new Movie Maker Project
2) Add your Videos to the timeline/storyboard
3) Add the audio recordings in the timeline
4) Make adjustments to video and sound track
5) Export the Video file
Now you have a video file with audio recordings together.
6) Open up a new a Movie maker project
7) Import the Exported Video
8) Add the music to the timeline
9) Adjust the volume control on the left side of the timeline to pan to audio or music
10) Export the video
If you have more questions as you are working, just let me know.
Words on the screen:
Go to Edit Movie. Add Titles or Credits. Add them. Put them in the right place. Done.
Fast Forward:
One
group specifically asked for me to teach how to speed up some footage,
so here we go. The easiest way is to go to View Video Effects and select
Speed Up, Double. That will only double the speed though. So if you
need it to go even faster, you have to do something similar to what we
did for adding a voice over and music. Speed it up once, export it,
import it into a new project and speed it up again. Repeat until it's
fast enough. I hope that made sense.
Today's assignment:
- In your group, upload the rest of your video clips into your Windows Movie Maker Project
- Edit the clips by putting them in the correct order from beginning
to end - you should now have all the clips you are going to use and they
should be in the right order
- Decide what kind of music would be best, and where it should go - download it and add it in
- Decide where you will use a voice over and do it
- Save your work - next week we add transitions and credits, then we're almost done!!!
Good Luck!
-k
