Small Update

   Lately we have been putting out some videos of our experiments. No real purpose, just showing what I've learned in editing and where we are going.
   The first part of this (for the summer) was making a video with a ton of cuts. Now this video was to prove to Chase and Ethan that a lot of cuts is needed to make a film; they didn't believe me. Until they saw this video and I told them about the 3-4 sec cut rule. But now things are all in good order and we are taking this little concept to heart, which in and of itself will improve our videos drastically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXKAEPeU-g
   Another little video I made the other day was a quick 15 sec video (took me 15 hours to edit) that showed off some cool effects and explosions I made in After Effects. This video kinda blows you away, but more importantly the audio brings the piece together. I found every free explosion I could, and as many good explosion sounds as I could get, just for this video. But the reason it took so long to edit was due to me having never used AE before, so I had to watch tutorials and spend time learning the ways.

   As far as audio goes. So we've started using ADR, as you may know, and so far it is turning out really nice, and helpful. The chasing video with a lot of cuts was about 20% (extra audio/replaced). And this keeping in mind that most movies are 70%. But ADR does help out by making the scene a little more epic. Just stand somewhere, anywhere, for a minute and try to pick out as many different audio sources as possible. One day while doing that I picked up about 10 or so; wind, grill, people talking, birds chirping, ocean, cars driving by, people walking in the grass, and a bunch of others. But you can see the importance of fully creating that ambiance.
   Well that is all I will leave you with for now, head on over to the LO2 blog to check out what I said about the first filming (if it's not up yet it will be soon)

Thanks for reading,

Alex