Production notes:
I started this project by surveying my room looking for things to make dance. My eyes fell on a Christmas present that my loving sister, Christina, gave me. I immediately knew that I wanted to animate words, but I was unsure if I should do a song or a speech. I looked up some speeches, but none of them felt right. Then I thought of movie quotes, which made me think of Hitchcock. I pulled the audio from his 1950s TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and compiled it in Audacity. After I had the audio I transcribed it so I knew what all the words were. Then I set up my camera rig on the side of my desk so that it looked down on a small nightstand. Then I filmed the animations you see above. After filming, I downloaded all the video and used iMovie to pull all of my images (I find it easier to pull images in iMovie than in AvidMC). While pulling my images I realized that I had actually forgotten a few words. Luckily, I had left my camera rig in place just in case I had to re-shoot. Thank goodness I did. Once I was finished re-shooting I got the final images I needed. I then exported the video to Avid where I went about syncing the animations to the audio, which was by far the most time intensive part of the project. Finally, I added some filters to make the video reflect the era and quality of the audio.
Ode to Hitchcock by the numbers:
- 760 unique images in the video.
- 20 hours of total production time
- 4 hours of finding and mixing audio
- 3 hours of set up and filming
- 12 hours of editing and syncing
- 4 different audio clips from 3 different episodes.
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