For our second film we have been given the topic of migration to study. Migration being the movement of people over long distances either for temporary or permanent relocation. When I first think about migration I think of animal migration or when birds migrate during the winter. However after searching migration on the internet nearly all of the results were referring to people migrating to different countries and refugees. This lead me to thinking about the difference between animal migration and human migration. I think the main difference between the two are that there is more freedom when it comes to animal migration as migration in animals is often instinctual and natural whereas human migration is due to circumstance. Migration is essentially moving from one place to another, getting from point A to point B. With this in mind I don't necessarily want to make my film about travelling, more looking into freedom or a theoretical journey.
After talking about my idea in class it was brought to my attention that it is natural for them to travel in certain cultures. This has given me the idea to make my film based around the freedom of travelling within cultures and travelling to experience culture. Using archive footage from the internet, I'm planning to show the link between people, animals, and birds through imagery of travelling and migration.
To make my film, I first found footage online that I thought showed natural scenery and people/animals travelling. I wanted to show the travelling in all different environments to show the connection between humans and animals from all different places. Most of my footage is from music videos and national geographic documentaries as I felt these would have the best visuals for what I wanted. I wanted to combine this with imagery of joy and bliss, to show how travelling can come naturally to people and animals. I thought the dancing at the beginning of the music video for Grimes - Genesis would work well, and because of the sunset background and silhouette dancer, I thought this could look pretty blended with the other footage. I liked the idea of overlaying the girl dancing as it introduced more colours to the film and brought a sense of celebration to the video much like how Piplotti Rist works.
While editing I cut the footage I liked and arranged it based on the setting in each clip. Then I cut up the shots I liked from the Grimes video and arranged them alongside the other footage, putting the clips underneath the original in the sequence. Then I turned down the opacity on the clips above to 55% so you could slightly see Grimes dancing and the background blended into the video. Lastly I altered the colour on some of the clips as the colours from both didn't blend well together. On the clips I did colour correct, I just made the scheme more purple or blue. Finally I added a soundtrack that I thought gave the film an adventurous, up-beat feel but didn't take away from the visual.
After talking about my idea in class it was brought to my attention that it is natural for them to travel in certain cultures. This has given me the idea to make my film based around the freedom of travelling within cultures and travelling to experience culture. Using archive footage from the internet, I'm planning to show the link between people, animals, and birds through imagery of travelling and migration.
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To make my film, I first found footage online that I thought showed natural scenery and people/animals travelling. I wanted to show the travelling in all different environments to show the connection between humans and animals from all different places. Most of my footage is from music videos and national geographic documentaries as I felt these would have the best visuals for what I wanted. I wanted to combine this with imagery of joy and bliss, to show how travelling can come naturally to people and animals. I thought the dancing at the beginning of the music video for Grimes - Genesis would work well, and because of the sunset background and silhouette dancer, I thought this could look pretty blended with the other footage. I liked the idea of overlaying the girl dancing as it introduced more colours to the film and brought a sense of celebration to the video much like how Piplotti Rist works.
While editing I cut the footage I liked and arranged it based on the setting in each clip. Then I cut up the shots I liked from the Grimes video and arranged them alongside the other footage, putting the clips underneath the original in the sequence. Then I turned down the opacity on the clips above to 55% so you could slightly see Grimes dancing and the background blended into the video. Lastly I altered the colour on some of the clips as the colours from both didn't blend well together. On the clips I did colour correct, I just made the scheme more purple or blue. Finally I added a soundtrack that I thought gave the film an adventurous, up-beat feel but didn't take away from the visual.
After posting the first version, I realised that the quality of the video was not what I wanted because the videos I used were smaller than 1920 x 1080 so I downloaded the videos again and quickly remade the film. I found it a quick process as I had already made the film once and I knew the sequence. This also gave me the opportunity to make some little changes to the visual. This is the finished video.
