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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!!!
-k
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