1.29.20
I thought I had everything to start assembling the actual video, but I was wrong. I have a large folder chock full of footage. For some reason, I overlooked this in the organization that I did a couple of days ago. I sorted the footage into 4 or 5 categories. Some of it was just regular B-Roll of the outside of the Tower Theatre. A lot were speeches, and some was the after-party. It took me a good 20 minutes to sort all that footage. After that, I felt better and got to work. I started with the intro. It has the cool old school footage that I mentioned before. After a lot of reiteration, trial, and error, I found a sequence that flowed well. I took some scrap from the end of another old video that I had downloaded, added a score that built, and a bass drop at the end that would have a cut to black effect into the old-school footage I found earlier. There was some drone footage that I stumbled upon and decided to use that for the opening title. After poking around for a while in my plugins, I found an effect that would make the drone footage flow well out of the old film. Now, all the festival footage is on a standard digital camera, so I needed a way to transition from the film look to the modern era. I decided to do the painstaking process of keyframing the old film effect out of the drone shot while the score builds, and the title appears. The effect isn't set up in a way where I can easily do this. I have to keyframe each sub effect out manually. Doing this wouldn't be a problem if the effect weren't so dense. Each time I changed something, I had to render out the footage, which would take a second to make sure that is what I wanted to do. Every time I changed a number, my computer would seize up. So it took a second to get it where I wanted. After I was happy, I started to skeleton some footage. I believe I made a lot of progress today, and I am pleased with how it has turned out so far.
