A step toward education

This video is a redub project; indicating the women’s important step toward education. The goal of this assignment was to take a movie and rescript the audio of a key scene.

Women in my country have been strongly discouraged from gaining an education; even they were legally banned from attending any kind of schooling during Taliban’s invasion. But Afghan women never give up despite of the harsh situations.  Therefore I considered to create a video indicating the women‘s enthusiasm for gaining education and standing for their right.

To achieve my goal I downloaded Raajneeti, an Indian political movie from YouTube, using PwnYouTube. Then I used MPEG StreamClip to trim the scene I wanted. After getting my desired scene I used Video Pad and AVS video editors, for editing my project.

On the other hand, besides recording my voice; I added a cheering sound effect at the beginning and at the end of my project. The sound effects were downloaded from freesound.org. Similarly, I used an Afghani music track as background music.

For this assignment I reviewed two previously done examples; which I found very helpful. The first example that I reviewed was called redub of dance scene ; I really liked this example because I found its concept very unique. Secondly, the process of doing this assignment was well explained; therefore I chose to review this example.

The second example that I reviewed was notebook redub ; I found it interesting because the concept was similar to what I considered to do. Secondly, I considered this example because it was very clear and well explained.

Here is my project-Enjoy

Even though, Redubbing was not an easy task; because there were many elements to consider such a script, use of certain software, dialogues and sound effects. But it was very interesting to redub a movie scene; I really enjoyed creating this video. It is a huge personal success to me.

 My story through words & pictures 

The purpose of this assignment was to tell a story using 5 to 10 randomly selected words; with the images found in Google.

I have always wished for peace, love, justice and equality in my country. Therefore, when I saw this assignment I instantly considered doing it. Afghanistan has been in war for decades now, I do not remember any single time when Afghanistan was not in war. Growing in a war torn country is very hard therefore I have always wished for a peaceful and equal Afghanistan.

I chose 10 words randomly; the words were In, Wish, For, Justice, Love, Peace, And, My, Country, and Equality. Then for each word, through Google search, I chose one of the first visible photos for the word. I put them together in Windows Live Movie Maker; and arranged them in a way to make a meaningful sentence. On the other hand, for each image I chose different animations from Windows Live Movie Maker. Similarly, I downloaded a tune called Peaceful music meditation from YouTube; I then used that tune as background music. I also added a title sequence and a closing credit screen to make it more attractive to the eyes.

The first previously done example that I reviewed was Story de Words; I found the example very helpful because the process of doing this assignment was well explained. Secondly, the comments on that example were very helpful; since I learned through them how to make this assignment more effectively. I could not find any other example for this assignment but I gained a lot from the example that I reviewed.

I really enjoyed creating this assignment, because through this assignment I have been able to put my dream into a visual form.

Here is the final project:

11 Responses to My story through words & pictures

 

The Hand

The purpose of this assignment was to either create a horror scene or re-create a scene from a horror movie. I wanted to be creative therefore; I considered creating a horror scene of my own. Thus, the first thing I did was writing the script for this assignment. The movie I created was 45 minutes long but I selected 17 scenes from the movie.

The reason I considered this video assignment was that we had Halloween recently; thus, I can use some Halloween costumes to make this video. Secondly, I chose to do this assignment because there were many examples and tutorials available for this assignment.

For this assignment I reviewed some previously done examples; I really liked looking at what people did for this assignment. Seeing their examples was a great help for me; because I got some ideas that helped me in creating mine.

The first example I reviewed was The Closet ; I found this example very helpful because there was a great tutorial available for it. Secondly, the process of doing a horror movie was well explained.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t open any other example ‘s video for this assignment; because it showed an error on those blog pages which did not allow me to open the video. Fortunately, the first example I reviewed was very clear that I did not find the need for reviewing any other. but  even though I couldn’t  open any other example’s video but still I found the explanations of the process very helpful.

I selected my desired scenes, from the movie I created, with the MPEG StreamClip and I put them together. I then downloaded Columbia Pictures logo from YouTube to begin my movie with. Since the title of my movie is The hand thus, I considered a hand‘s wallpaper; to represent the title of my movie. I used Windows live movie maker to put the intro and the title of my movie together. I then used AVS Video Editor for putting the sound tracks and background music to my movie. For each scary scene I put a horror sound effect such as Aahat, Creepy sound, ripping-paper sound, The grudge-croak-sound and the night sound as a background music; the sound effects were downloaded from free sounds.org .

Here is The hand, enjoy:

The process of creating this movie was a little challenging; because it is important to consider the Light, sound, speed, angles, and camera positions to create a good movie.  But it was fun creating because I think this was a great personal success for me. I really enjoyed making this movie and I hope you all enjoyed it- will really appreciate any feedback

 

 The Silence of Fast Five  

The purpose of this assignment was to take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form of the silent era; by converting it to black and white and replacing the audio with a musical sound track. On the other hand, use of title cards was recommended for this assignment as well.

The reason I considered to do this assignment was to experience what a modern movie sound like; if it was in the silent era.  Secondly, there were many tutorials and examples available for this assignment; which was a great help for me to do this task.

For this assignment I reviewed Silent she’s the man , which I found very helpful since the process of doing this assignment was well explained; secondly, the example fulfilled most of the requirements for this assignment.

The other example that I review was Finding Neemo in Silence ; I found this example very interesting. I really liked the music track she used because it was going very well with the scene.

I also reviewed Martha Goes to Camp , which really gave me idea about my own project. I really liked how she used the cue cards to communicate the dialogues.

For this assignment I first downloaded Fast Five’s trailer using PwnYouTube , I then downloaded five Armies,  which is a rock musical sound track, from Incompetech .  On the other hand, I downloaded the cue cards from a google image search.

I then imported the Fast Five trailer  video to Windows live movie maker for editing. I used the cue cards for telling the story in general; instead of using them for each dialogue.  In addition, I muted the original audio of the movie and imported the Fast Armies musical sound track. after editing I uploaded to YouTube.

Here is The Silence of Fast Five:

 

Fast Five is one of my all -time favorite movie therefore, I considered this movie for this assignment. Because I wanted to know how it would sound if it was in silent era. I really enjoyed creating this assignment because I found it very interesting and fun to do.

 

 

Over all reflection

I really enjoy telling stories with video; therefore I found week 11-12 very interesting. Creating the videos required a lot of time; but having two weeks was a great opportunity for completing the video assignments. In addition, Tools for the Trade was very helpful reference for the use of software for video editing; at the beginning I was confuse what software to use for editing my videos. But with the help of Tools for the Trade my confusion was solved because there were different links for different software with different functionalities.

For weeks 11 and 12 we were supposed to complete a 16 worth star assignment. the assignments that I created were:

A step toward education worth of 4 star

My story through words & Picture worth of 3 star

The Hand worth of 4 star

The Silence of Fast Five worth of 5 star