Lina Lee
Time: Metropolis
Video+Sound
When I first got started on the video and the sound portion of the project it was a bit daunting. When I was creating the video, instead of working on top of the audio and muting, I started a new project. This is because when I was working on top of the audio, even though it was muted, I kept trying to sync the video to the audio. The format of the audio is in a dream, waking up; thus, the video followed that.
I copied and pasted the audio to the video file, and listened to it with our editing it first. I realized that even though they were created separately, when put together, it worked. Not a lot of things need to be changed. The best part of, the firstness and secondness, and the modes of listening didn’t need to be compromised as much as I feared. In the bed, neither the video nor the sound changed much when it was combined.
Of course certain parts need to be cut and re-transitioned. Such as the audio’s breathing, it was much too long for the video, and the figure in the video wasn’t trembling as much as the sound was implying. Instead of a long audio bite of breathing, I broke it up to match the figure when on the bed and when the figure first got off. I also had to sync when the person woke up in the video to the audio. It was evident that the audio had a larger emphasis on the nightmare and the video had a larger emphasis on the conscious stage. Which all in all helped the final product to feel more balanced between the waking and the dreaming states together.