🃏3. Tricky Transitions 🃏

Whip Pan Shot:

 In the "Whip Pan Shot", I wanted to portray the passage of time in the school's garden. In the beginning of the shot, it can be seen that the main character is standing in the wooden arch that leads to the garden, which later turns into a fast whip pan. This whip pan then leads to a shot of the main character interacting with the nature by gently touching the flowers that grow from the trees. Editing the video was honestly quite fun, since I had to find the exact moment that would allow the transition to look smooth enough. During editing, I also had to tinker around with the speed of the videos, and in the final video, I had to speed up the shots to make the edit seem smooth enough.

Walking Jump Cuts:

    With the "Walking Jump Cuts", my idea was to create an interesting perspective of a student walking through the school, but I mainly wanted to capture the different lighting, textures, and colors that the school contains in different areas. I thought it was pretty fun to get down on the floor to capture the shots, which yes, may have been embarrassing, but I'm quite happy with the end result. It came out exactly how I wanted it to, and the editing was quite enjoyable since I had to match the walking speeds with each clip and shorten the duration of the videos to make the cuts somewhat seamless.

Iris Fade Shot:

    

    The "Iris Fade Shot" was quite a simple video, but I wanted to capture the beginning of a classic YouTube video of the stereotypical "focused, productive and academically talented" student that types all their notes in fancy MacBooks and spends their time studying aesthetically. Except, in this case, the student being captured is working in their normal school environment, rather than completing their work in their aesthetic desk with their aesthetic lights and aesthetic pens. I wouldn't say that I'm a pessimistic person or anything like that, I'm just a realistic person. I'm pretty sure every student knows that being the "picture perfect and ornamental" person is just not practical, and many times it's just finishing your work under fluorescent lighting. Anyways, the editing process was extremely simple, since I just had to shorten the clip slightly and include the "Iris" edit at the beginning of the clip. 

    I'm quite excited to continue learning to edit more intricate videos and progress further throughout the year in this class and can't wait to observe how different perspectives and moods can be created by different elements that I'll create!