Found Video Edits

All video used to make these 10, 30, and 60 second digital shorts was collected form the Prelinger Database, with the audio from free sound and free music websites. This project was very interesting. I think it made an excellent introduction to Adobe Premier. Had I not spent the time learning to use premier with freely available stock footage to get the desired effects, the final project video would have been very overwhelming. I'm not all that fond of the tone of videos stored on the Prelinger Database, so my mission from the start was to try and get out of that and achieve something that felt less dated. With each video I tried a different method for breaking out of the time period which was available. With Play street, I tried to flex the time and warp the images with waves. With Geoscope, I tried to reach as far back and as far forward in the timescale available on prelinger, which worked surprisingly well as I then had "cavemen" and skyscrapers in the same 30 second video. With We Wish You Only Good, I tried to break through most of the anti-pot propaganda on the database by turning it on it's ear a little. All in all I think this was actually my favorite project of the semester as it contained a good balance of freedom and limitation.

"Play Street": This 10 second video was an attempt to juxtapose fast moving, hyper playful energy with something that is normally slow, like budding flowers, which are also sped up. With the 10 second limitation I thought maybe sped up video would allow me to add more content.

"Geoscope":A 30 second video meant to say have fun with the scale of geologic time, which dwarfs our local sense of time. Hoped this would add a sense of chaos the atomic explosion observed by ancient human ancestors, but set against a backdrop of organized geometric city apartment grids.

"We Wish You Only Good": Wanted to play with the surprising nature of psychedelic experiences against their more tropey set ups, an unexpected surprise from an entity reaching through time to communicate with you. I really enjoy the feeling of a slower, stretched sound and music against a backdrop of fast moving images.