I have made a mock trailer as a montage, using video provided for indi video development. I used audio ripped from the Team America clip of the very funny montage song, as the idea was to create a montage and the footage was not over exciting so I decided to make the opposite to most montages, a sequence of things not really happening.
First I simply used the song as is and created clips that best suited the verse playing, and the idea of the character going about his normal day at work. The clips were then placed on the sequence and adjusted for length. Transitions were then added to smooth the video.
The first transition is classic dip to black, a smooth transition that fades the whole scene to complete black and then back again, revealing the next clip. Very useful for a lot of transitions, especially if there is a difference in pace or time between the clips. The actor in the song says 'I know just what we need', the beat kicks in and the scene fades in.
The next is Dither Dissolve, essentially a grid of expanding circles revealing the next scene. Use to good effect here as the song goes 'show us the passage of time' the effect kicks in and the characters task blends into another.
The next is a peel where four corners of the next clip peel down. This works really well as it is timed with the drum beat.
An additive dissolve is used next, this adds the two images together in a way that is similar to normal translucency but in a way that the brightness of a pixel is not the average of the two but the sum. This is used to blend the two clips together so that two characters are scene as if over time, as in the played song lyric.
At the end of the montage song the Team America character sings 'always fade out in montage, if you fade out it looks like more time has passed in a montage'. Taking this advice, to comic effect, proved irresistible.
In the end the video did what it intended to do. However it doesn't look overly professional, some points are out of sync, and the effects need a lot polishing.
(zxxz996 2012. Team America Montage. [Video Online] Availble at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrMLRQIT_k>. [Accessed 11 May 2014])
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