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Cyberpunk Movie Trailer

Character Movie Trailer Assignment for Week 6

Music by Benjamin Lazzarus on Bensound. License code: VOJ3IVQ4NZCVXVTG

Pond5 stock footage by CleverArts, Powel2097, victorfort, Frameangel, and TokyoVisionaryRoom. Adobe stock video by designprojects. Pexels videos by Yaroslav Shuraev, George Morina, Pixabay, Ricky Esquivel, Rostislav Uzunov, HumanoideVFX, Nathan J Hilton, MART PRODUCTION, Erik Mclean, IslandHopper X, Oleg Gamulinskii, Kelly, and Tom Fisk.

Special thanks to Mikhail Nilov, who made Close up of a Lighted Signage and A Woman Aiming a Weapon.

Extra special thanks to cottonbro studio, who made Two People in Black Clothing Standing in front of a Wall, A Woman Posing at the Camera, A Woman Wearing a VR Headset Sitting on the Floor, and A Human Hand Touching Prosthetic Arm.

I made this with the websites above and edited them in OpenShot. I manually clipped each shot and placed them together, sometimes changing the audio levels or frame. I tried to make a trailer that implies we are looking through a robot’s eyes and shows different levels of destruction that could occur throughout the city, particularly if people or robots began to riot. I would’ve liked more shots involving robots or androids, but beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to stock photos. I hope it encompasses the themes of both cyberpunk and tech noir.

Vee’s Top 10 Movies

When I saw the Top 10 assignment, I knew I wanted to do it, especially with movies. But, I thought I would make it for Veronica where she could share her Top 10 favorite movies.The genre tends to vary, but also falls under the same theme, with it being crime, thriller, action, or a murder mystery, but they differ in style and time periods. It did take some research in order to find the best rated movies under these genres. They range from Kill Bill Volume 1 to Miss Congeniality. In order to make the video, I used ClipChamp to edit the video and add the audio. I recorded the audio on the voice memos app on my phone, as well as made a script to stick to throughout the video. I tried (emphasis on tried) to act like Veronica would in the audio, but I did the best I could. I then found movie posters on google, and then created graphics on Canva to make a visual for the video, as well as found the background music on Pixabay.com. Overall, this was super fun as it allowed me to think outside the box, and imagine myself as Veronica in order to find her favorite movies.

Bethany in School

I opted to further engage with my course character by unearthing a video that she made during high school. Based on the information in my introduction post, Bethany would have been in school around 2012.

After deciding the perfect early-2010s track to play, I downloaded it using a YouTube to mp3 converter. I used the same converter to download a couple of videos of 2012 high schoolers, which I included in the final video. All of the images came from Pinterest, which I sourced primarily from a search asking for “2012 high school.” Bethany was a pretty mainstream, normal girl, so all of these pictures and videos may seem average but are perfectly her!

Everything was compiled using Microsoft ClipChamp

Zer0 CapCut Edit

Speed Up Transition Assignment for Week 6

I did something slightly different from what the assignment asked based on what was available to me. I downloaded CapCut and searched for a template that I thought would be fitting for my character. There were some issues moving things between the web browser and app, but it worked out in the end. I used a recent template made by lorelei.

All pictures of Zer0 are by me. They were a part of a photoshoot I did in Richmond in 2023. Photos of cityscapes were taken by Lennon Cheng, Josh Hild, Lerone Pieters, and Hin Bong Yeung on Unsplash. The song is a remixed version of Daft Punk’s Harder Better Faster Stronger. I was looking for a different Daft Punk song but found this one to be fitting enough. Fun fact, Daft Punk was part of my inspiration for Zer0!

To Bethany!

For this assignment, I decided to portray one of Bethany’s friends giving her a toast at her housewarming party. I fell curse to an echo-ey room, but it makes it feel like it really is an empty room! The assignment didn’t go into depth about how long the toast should be, so mine ended up being quite short. I recorded everything in ClipChamp and trimmed the beginning and end. I played around with adding crowd noises, but I felt like I couldn’t get it to properly layer with the audio from my video, so I left those out.

Veronica Malone’s Backstory

In order to flesh out Veronica, or as I like to call her Vee, as a character even more, I thought I would give a sort of backstory as to why she is in the field she is in now, or why she is the way she is. To give context (but not too much as you will have to watch the video to see), she starts off in the criminal justice system working as a detective, but realizes the corruption that comes with it, and decides to go rogue. This was a bit difficult, as I am not very good at drawing, so visualizing her as a character was hard. So, I decided to keep it ambiguous for now, but still include realistic images and videos in order to accurately recreate her backstory. I found most of these images and videos either from Pixabay.com or from Canva and downloading it. I edited on ClipChamp which is included on Microsoft 365. It is simple and gets the job done as far as completing this assignment. After, I was proud of what I made. It isn’t perfect, but I think it doesn’t look too amateur and gets the story across perfectly.

Become a Pinterest Plant Parent

For this video assignment, I decided to talk about the thing I can’t stop talking about: plants! All of the information included in this video is from my own experience becoming a plant parent this year. I included some pictures of my plants as a character witness.

To create this video, I used Microsoft ClipChamp and recorded everything directly in the software. Ideally, I would have been in a room that is not quite so echo-ey, but I didn’t have the ability to do that this week!

Midnight in February

It’s funny how perspective can change everything. From this video, it look cold but dry, nothing around except bushes and grass on the brink of death. But just outside of the reach of this video, there’s snow that had fallen the previous day. Shooting this video of the cold winter night was an assignment I didn’t think I would be doing, just me sitting in the cold. What it does though, is emphasize connecting with watchers without sound or a lot of background activity, just you, and the cold night sky. I think this assignment is a reminder that in a video, one can control what you can and cannot see, preventing crucial information that help help in understanding the surroundings and context.