Lithium in process 5

After I felt I had acquired enough raw material (I felt I had enough stuff to play with), I began editing on iMovie. I liked how I started the piece in the second improv dancing clip, so I decided that was how I wanted it to start. But other than that I was just going to see as I went. I knew that would make the editing process longer, but it would also give me more opportunities to explore different possibilities.

I had all my raw materials laid out in the clip tab on iMovie. I went through the two dancing clips and cut out the snippets I liked. In addition to those, I had some clips on the drug bottle and Hershey Kisses as well as other pictures. The music had been imported from iTune. So I started puzzling the clips as if the music was the final picture (if that makes any sense).

At several different spots I switched different clips around to see what came out the most effective. That was really interesting because I got to see how a minute change could create an entirely different atmosphere. I also used some special effects that iMovie had, such as Earthquake, Aged Film, Speed, etc. I was careful about not overusing them because I thought it would make it look too much, or almost... um, cheesy.

Anyway, at first I didn't plan to play with the fast/slow motion function, but what happened was that I would find myself in a dilemma that the snippet I liked was shorter/longer than it needed to be to go with the music. When it was longer than the music, I didn't want to cut the snippet because I liked it so much; when it was shorter, I couldn't find anything else to extend it. So I "cheated" and adjusted the video's speed to make it match the music. It turned out looking nice, so I kept it. It was the biggest surprise coming out from my experiments, and I'm glad I tried that. I didn't play anything backwards, however, and it's something I'd like to try if I get to work on other projects in the future.

That's pretty much the editing process I went through... Took me a long time but I'm very glad that I spent time to gain that experience. Now, ladies and gentleman, proudly present the final product of our collaboration, Lithium.