I have now made the video that will go into the ‘campsite’ part of my final piece. The video consists of still images that my friends and i have taken and collected over the past four years. I put them together using IMovie as i new it was a simple programme to use and it would save me time, without compromising the quality of the video. I simply uploaded the pictures to the computer, then IMovie and put the images in order of how i wanted them to go, finding a good establishing shot to set the piece up, as well as a good image to end on.
I chose images that i thought represented my experiences of Reading Festival outside of the music element. The images show me and my friends having fun, doing things you may not do in other parts of life and generally having a great experience.
I then uploaded a suitable song to have over the images on screen. I chose the song With You by The Subways. I chose this song because The Subways’ performances were always a highlight for me. The track is live, bringing across the element of live music at the festival. The only problem i thought i might run into with the track is that sometimes, YouTube block and delete certain tracks from videos if you don’t have the right authorisation to use the song, due to copyright. This happened with my derive walk piece, and if it was to happen with this video then i would have to resort to using something else. My idea would have been to make a montage of songs from Reading festival and put that over the images. Fortunately, this problem did not occur and YouTube has allowed the track to stay on the video.
