CTS Video Essay: Postproduction (Version 2 revision 2)
Process
Moving into post-production for the video essay, I had a decent amount of work to do. All of Tuesday I locked myself in my room to work on the sound for the video. Going into the structure of the sound, I had a vague idea but I did not fully know what I was going to do. Referencing the drug scene from ‘Requiem for a Dream” I was aiming for the stuttery and saturated noises of the drugs, I attempted to mimic this with the food we captured on film. Along with these sounds I constructed, I needed an underlying, melodic-ish piece to carry them through the video, this is where I was lost. Once I sat down to work, (using Ableton Live) I recorded a few chords, covered arpeggios, and other audio effects and somehow, in one take, I recorded the piece I needed.
Revisions
In our first turn in this video, we had good criticism from our instructor. When coming to turn this in, my group pushed to meet the 3-5 minute length requirement, meaning I had to space out the monologue to a much more boring extent. Come to the presentations, people had a significantly less amount of time to their videos too, one group’s only being only 1:50 mins long. With this, in our next revision, we are going to cut down the length, making everything much more concise and clean, matching the sound with it. In a way with all of it, making it more like ‘Requiem for a Dream’. Seeing the presentations of all the other groups too gave me the inspiration to push a little harder to a final product that I can be happy with to include in my portfolio. Below is the private link to this version of our video.
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