This project is a montage of different video taken from a moving car of the damage from Hurricane Sandy. The video was taken in different shore towns of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Some towns include Sea Bright, Highlands, and Union Beach. All of these towns were devastated from the storm and many families lost their homes and belongings. The video is set to the song "Hallelujah" done by Rufus Wainwright.
Production Log
23 November 2012: First video taken in Union Beach and surrounding towns
25 November 2012: Second video taken in Highlands and Sea Bright
26 November 2012: First edit done of video, set to song "Home" by Phillip Phillips
1 December 2012: Second edit done of video, now set to the song "Dark Road" by Annie Lennox
6 December 2012: Video edit lost from Final Cut Pro X
6 December 2012: First edit redone in iMovie, set to song "Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright
11 December 2012: Second edit done, brightness and saturation changed for different clips, video finalized, blog updated
Self Evaluation
For this final project, I put in a lot of time and effort. I originally was going to do a montage of videos that I had taken throughout the semester of the friends I had made at TCNJ. However, after Hurricane Sandy hit and severely damaged the area by hometown I decided to change my idea. During Thanksgiving Break when I was home, I drove around with my friends and family taking different video of the damage done to the places I used to spend my time all throughout my life. It really made me think of how lucky I was to still have a home and I wanted to create this video to educate others on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
After I had taken all of the video, I started my first edit with Final Cut Pro X. A few weeks later I decided to back up the file to an external hard drive and when I tried to recover the file I found out that it was not going to be able to be recovered. I then decided to redo my final in iMovie. This time I changed the song. I edited the video in a way that enabled it to flow with the song and I changed some settings with levels, brightness, contrast and saturation. Overall, I think that the second final I created came out much better than the first one and I am extremely pleased with how it came out.
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