This "dynamic picture slideshow" video is made as a tribute to my course mates in four years of degree. Pictures are composed of major events happened throughout 2008-2012, in which mostly around 2011 on wards as i only posses a camera and join in the big group afterwards.
A few motivation that drives the project =)
Suffering from leg injury thus having quite lot of free time.
At first just wanna go for some editing for gun firing sequence, but pointless as it serves no purpose, thought of using it as intro, but finally dropped out the un-related sequence.
Always wanted the people involved to view the videos they never seen, as it will be a waste if just keeping all of those to one self (It was quite pointless to share and watch only one main video randomly at a time, thus combining all highlights into one will be great.)
Guess it will be one of my hobby, found it quite entertaining when editing
Technical stuffs:
-Inspired from the moving newspapers and moving picture frames to the panning camera for the appearing credits roll of Harry Potter plus epic opening from bethesda (Skyrim), thus the video is produced with this theme. Music used is Charlie Brown from Coldplay as it was one of my favourite for the moment. Having a good intro and outro just make it perfect, a big "boom" when the book opens and close when the music is fading away =)
-Youtube version was blocked over 240 country -.- due to usage of coldplay song, thus uploading onto facebook is the option.
-The idea on compostion, instead of using the built in "page flip" transition, a manual approach is used as the "page flip" transition is only in 2D. Basically each page is a composition, just like each page is a video screen, which can rotate in 3d world.
-3d elements were used but i gave up on how to make it position correctly, thus all the pen and pencils are actually 2d footage of 3d items
-Every page is total random, not planned, just letting ideas flow out. Only guide is that the pics was filtered according to date, thus the composing is actually not consistent, as more ideas towards the end.
-Composing took around 12-14 days, even if doing it full time it will still take a week. Fully render takes up to 12 hours, might be due to HD definitions and the effect. It was the first time my laptop was in full fan speed mode for that long period ( luckily the render breaks into 8 hour and 6 hour due to error in between, giving the laptop time to rest ). If it was to count for the hours to render throughtout the project, it would add up to days, including drafts and first renders. Few hours to upload as the file is converted to a 720p (1280x720) H.264 video quality, 220mb in size, which was quite ok. Better than wmv which i was using it for online distribution last time.
