BACK TO PROJECTS
It would appear that every even numbered Uni Video isn�t as good as the odd numbered ones, I�ve got a bit of a Star Trek thing going on it would appear. Again, in the interest of giving each Uni Video its own flavour, I went in a somewhat horror direction. As a pre-video, crime-scene-esque �bit� of sorts, I explored our house by torchlight, getting abstract shots of our home. When edited together into a rough form, I proceeded to give a high contrast feel to the black and white footage to make it really look as if we are creeping around a crime-scene in the middle of the night. Over this, I placed a soundtrack of garbled radio noise which occasionally breaks into flurries of speech � at one point a woman�s voice declares �what is your position and nature of distress?�, which is quite creepy for the final edit of this little pre-video segment. This was a playground of sorts for experimenting with the aesthetic I wanted to achieve when I came to edit the crime-scene-esque exploration of our shed. Every student house has a shed, and many things go on in these sheds � unless they look like a disused slaughterhouse like ours does. As I was exploring our shed in detail (piles of rubbish, layers and layers of cobwebs and various dead things, broken bits and bobs and so on) I decided it would be a neat idea to make a Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003-inspired crime scene examination, perhaps using some music from the movie itself.
But anyway, onto the rest of the video. During the pre-title build up, I set audio of myself breathing along to two different tracks from Sam Raimi�s �The Evil Dead� (the resurrection passage recital and the �we�re gonna get you� song). The camera then rudely cuts to we the viewer trying to break out of the shed, kicking the door quite viciously, before a sudden cut in audio and video to �The Uni Video 5� and my favourite HIM track �Right Here In My Arms� before a music-video paced summary of some of the footage in the rest of the video. The title cards I made for this Uni Video were similar somewhat to those I made for �Experiment In Exposure�. In this instance it was double-vision text (as I called it anyway) and abstract shapes I took from screen captures of some of my previous work.
The segments for this video were often edited like music videos, the video itself reacting to the music. This time around, I wanted to make the video run all the way through as one whole piece, as opposed to clearly defined sections as in previous videos, which gave this 55 minute epic a meaty feel�I think only I will understand exactly what I mean by that�but never mind! Anyway, I used colour correction frequently throughout the video to make things look a bit meatier and interesting than just plain old colour footage all the way throughout � which would have looked incredibly boring! Add to the footage of stupid students doing stupid shit some interesting abstract imagery and we have ourselves a successful Uni Video (well, it�s a bit more complicated and long-winded than that, but I don�t want to talk you into your grave!)
