Kicking it up a notch

Here it is, my final project. At first, I thought I wanted to make another Soundslides project. Then, since I really liked the way the other one turned out, I thought I would try my hand at a broadcast-style video piece. Then I had no idea what I wanted to do.

Because of this, I decided to combine everything we've done this year (audio, photography, slideshow-style storytelling and video) into one project to create the ultimate example of indecisiveness. When you can't decide which style to do, why not do them all?

I first imported my pictures and raw video into Movie Maker since Premiere was taking way too long to download. After I knew roughly the length I was looking at (1:20:20), I could edit the most relevant portions of the audio to fit accordingly. I had a lot of audio to work with (over 16 minutes) so I had to be very selective with all of his stories. I wanted to make something on the shorter side since my previous project was a little long.

The only thing I had to account for was some extra space for the title and intro slides, so I used my "silent" background noise - which I recorded before the interview - as filler for the beginning and end. I could have put audio of the practice I went to, or something else, but I there were spots where the wind kind of ruined the sound. I also did the white noise rather than music because I personally think putting music (especially something with lyrics) takes away from a story and gets old very fast.

The ambient sound at the beginning is a little long, and probably could be occupied by something else, but overall I think this works as a nice supplemental video to a print story that incorporates just about everything utilized in this class.

Here it is:
"Soccer player kicks the international flair at UNH up a notch"