I felt the final product turned out well as the visuals themselves are really striking and go together with the song the edit itself can look a little rushed in parts and some of the cookie cutter effects don't work well in all cases and sometimes the frames can be a little too cluttered. However the way the edit is cut together to music I think fits good enough an the contrast between some foreground footage against the background imagery stands out and looks very nice.
I had some feedback form other people coming up to me saying they liked the way it was cut and found the imagery original enough and a nice change of pace compared to some of the other visuals that were on display in there show which is good to her as a lot of other peoples visuals were very good too. Despite my problems with some of the edit I think the visual worked well and has gotten me more interested in editing footage with overlays like some of the work I've done in this project.
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Due the fast approaching deadline our group decided to work independently on each of our projects so I decided to keep my visuals to highly edited footage from Beatles events and old USSR footage stringing together some visuals from that in a quick way effiecient edit that woul hopefully be to a high qualtiy for the music students event. ![]() Going through the lyrics I planned out what footage I would need for the visuals most of which would be retrieve from YouTube and edited together into a video collage type visual. For the very beginning due to the song starting out as the 'singer' is getting off a plane in Moscow I would go find some footage of the Beatles arriving at airports for their gigs and overlaying over the top of the footage some old USSR maps from some old propaganda films and also gathering footage of planes arriving. For the 'been away so long' part of the song I decided to go look for some shots of the USSR that show it off in a good light maybe of the Kremlin with fire works or bright imagery of sunny days in Russia due to the song being about how the USSR wasn't too different from other countries despite the stereotypes at the time suggesting otherwise as a cold desolate militant society. For the chorus I had the idea of animating the USSR flag to be peeling away and revealing the USA flag underneath this is just an image to suggest the tensions between the two countries at the time and also about how Paul McCartney's view of the song being about a Russian spy who has forgotten about his culture due to being in USA for so long. The Ukraine Girls segment of the song sounds very much like a beach boys song so I thought the visuals could homage this by introducing some old surfing footage as the beach boy's most iconic song is 'Surifn' USA'. The original idea for 'Georgia's always on my mind' was to have an animation of a woman which would transition to the flag of Georgia as a reference to it being a country and a woman but that didn't pan out because it would have been too difficult to do in the amount of time I had to edit the piece. The last part of the song I just decided I would find footage of whatever the lyrics would be talking about as it was Russian imagery, so I'd find vintage footage of people playing balalaikas nd russian skiers going down a mountain and also some old Russian farms as the final section of the song seems to be just a celebration of everything Russian. Editing the Visuals
Idea One: Stock Footage Edited Together
Idea Two: Stop Motion
Idea Three: Lyric Video
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Students in the Music Course in college are putting together an event in which they'll be performing various songs from the bands 'Pink Floyd' and 'The Beatles', us Media students were asked to create some background visuals for the bands as they perform the songs. Assigned to a group we were given three songs to create visuals for and in turn we have been given roles for each visual project, these are listed below... Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall: Director: Megan Telford Producer: Megan Telford Camera: Michael Holburt Editor: Ethan Walsh The Beatles: Back In The USSR: Director: Ethan Walsh Producer: Megan Telford Camera: Ethan Walsh Editor: Ethan Walsh Magical Mystery Tour: Director: Michael Holbert Producer: Megan Telford Camera: Ethan Walsh Editor: Michael Holburt I have taken most interest in the song 'Back in the USSR' as I find the song's subject matter the most interesting...
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