Interactive Video: The Alternate Story-Snow White
Link: https://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~ys3041/videoproject/index1.html
Overview: In this video project, I will be working with Anica and Susie to accomplish an interactive video web page. We followed Susie’s proposal to take on a twist and alternative story of the original Snow White storyline. We thought of several different scenarios and each function either as a trigger to another plot or just the ending. After we settled on this proposal, we immediately went into recording on the 15th floor.
Process: While I’m the video editor for this project, Susie and Anica will be in charge of the creation of the web, its interface, and interaction. We first recorded most of our scene on the 15th floor. Each of our group members will take a role in the acting. Susie as the evil Queen, Anica as the princess and I’m the Huntsman. The whole recording part was rather quick and only took us two afternoons to finish. Since the plot was proposed mainly by Susie, I will be following a script that Susie wrote about the various visual effects and music that I will need to add. In this project, I will be using Sony Vegas Pro for the editing because that’s what I’m most comfortable with. Also, I added my own taste to the video by adding different templates of popular Youtube videos and memes like the Illuminati and Minecraft death screen. Some templates are on green screen so I added them by using Chroma Keyer. To move images around, I used the crop to move the position as well as changing its size. Moreover, the masking of the face with another image can be done with both the crop and mask, like it is shown below.
Crop and masking is a main component to the video because there are lots of involvement of moving particle and images like the Miley Cyrus with the wrecking ball appearing in the mirror. To make the audio louder, I simply change the volume (dB) option higher. Here’s some photo of the video editing process on Vegas Pro.
Reflection: Overall, this project didn’t meet my expectation and I was a little unfortunate that the team was unable to put everything together well. I hope that each member can work on all task and equally so that the project is cohesive. The user testing was important and it is what we missed out of. The interface of the project was not cohesive with the video and I wish that the video was more integrated into the video. We could of make the video full screen and as the interface where the buttons will appear in the video. The background was an indecisive choice that did not fit well into our project. The video, however, needed some improvement too like the synchronization of the video and the audio. That is a problem mainly due to that we recorded a separate soundtrack for some video which they are not synced together in the first place.