Editing Practical Task: Different Perceptions

For this practical task we were asked to take a video clip and edit it. I chose to take a video clip of a moon rising and then add different non-diegetic music on top of the video to change the perception of the video.

'Scary' Moon Edit

First of all, I imported the video of the moon onto iMovie.

The next step was to remove the sound that already existed in the video. To do this, I clicked on the video in the bottom screen and then clicked on the option to 'detach audio'.

Once the audio was detached, I then highlighted the sound and then deleted it. The original video now had no sound.

Next, I added in the sound effect 'Mystery'. Due to the sound effect being too short for the video, I slowed the sound down. This worked out well as the sound then sounded sinister and dramatic, which was the effect that I was aiming for.

The final step was to upload the video to YouTube.

Here is the final video:

'Casual' Moon Edit

My next video was changing the theme of the video clip from scary to a more casual/everyday theme. I did this by importing the original video into iMovie again. 

I then removed the original sound and deleted it the same way I did for the first video. 

Next I added in the 'Crickets' sound effect to give a more casual and normal theme for my video. 

Due to the sound effect being a lot shorter than the video, I added in duplicates of the sound effect so that the crickets ran throughout the entire video. 

The final stage was to upload the video to YouTube.

Here is the final video: