The Lion King Rises

The Lion King Rises

The assignment given to us this weekend was simple and helped us break in our video editing skills. We were given 4 total trailers in a zip folder by our professor. 2 trailers from Disney's Lion King and the other 2 trailers were from the prequel of the Batman series, The Dark Night Rises. With this video and audio, our professor challenged us to combine this content to create one trailer. I wanted to approach this project as if the trailer was for one movie and only use video from one movie.

Brainstorming:

I used the video from the Lion King trailers for the audience to view along with the audio to one of the more dramatic Batman trailers. The idea behind it was that I could make a child's movie into an intense and action packed film. Rating a child's movie PG-13 and almost scaring the audience, using the black screen and dramatic music to make the trailer suspenseful with a little bit of humor. Thinking about a movie almost any kid my age grew up with, and transforming it to a violent high explosive movie will bring a smile to anyone who enjoyed it.

Putting it all together:

I took what I though was the best video from the 2 Lion King trailers and put them on my new project, completely taking out its own audio. Then I took the entire audio from one of the Dark Knight trailers and compared the trailer to shots I could use in my own creation. When it comes to a shot over Gotham I would use a panning shot of Pride Rock. Every time a main character would be brought up in the Dark Knight trailer I would use a character such as Scar with Bane and Simba with Batman. 

Once I had the original audio and the desired shots from the Lion King I then tweaked the audio a bit more. The ending for the original audio I used ended too slowly for me, so I took the upbeat and dramatic ending of the other trailer and implanted to my own project to hype the video up and allow me to use more shots that I could not fit with the original audio. I used the official titles of Disney and directors along with quotes such as "coming soon" and "this summer" to create a type of realism to the video. To make it more official. 

Story Time

Story Time: 

The assignment given to us for the week was to record one of our friends telling a story. We then take the recorded audio and edit it down to one minute. Using Adobe Audition we are able to place the audio on a multitrack so that we can edit multiple audio recordings at one time. Once we have recorded our friend telling their story, we then must edit it down to a one minute recording with all of the important information so that the listener can fully understand the story. We then place our own introduction to the video and also a closing identifying who the speaker is and concluding the moral of the story at the end. Below is the original audio recording that I took of my friend talking completely unedited. 

In Abobe Audition I then put the recording on a mix track where I was able to place the original audio on the first track and the introduction along with the conclusion on track 2. Using the razor tool I was able to edit down the story to about 1:03. I found it very hard since Josh told so many stories in such a short time, so editing it down so that it was not only easy to follow along but so it was short enough and made sense. I found that by magnifying the track and being able to see the levels of audio it was easier to know where Josh would pause and be able to use the razor tool and trim the overall audio.