Week 9+10 - Five Edits w/ Sound

This is an edit of my 5 Master Edits, this time with music and sound effects.

I wanted to make a somewhat upbeat feel while preserving the original idea, and so when I found the stock music I would end up using, I saw it as a perfect fit. It felt like something you'd hear in a old edutainment game from the 90s. The sound effects were to add a slightly quirky feeling to the video as a whole, as well as to tie in with what the viewer physically was seeing in the video (i.e. the pixellated whoosh to match the fire transition). I kept most, if not all, of the non-diegetic sound in there - if you listen closely, especially in the part with the pouring water, you should be able to hear it. The sound effect in between the two fan shots was to bridge them together, with the effect implying acceleration. The sounds in between the numbers on the Leitmotif part was to create a feeling that they were changing abruptly.

Week 5 + 6 - Five Master Edits

I sincerely apologize for my lack of recent activity - I was having a lot of trouble getting Premiere Pro to install properly. Here are my Five Master Edits!

I decided to use mathematics, numbers, and physics as themes in this video. My Contrast shots show one fan as moving slowly, and the other moving quickly. This was in reference to the concept of velocity in physics, the speed and direction of an object's motion. By doing two shots of the same type of object, I feel that I was able to create a more cohesive feel as well as convey feelings of stillness and tranquility.
My Symbolism shots are next. I used the pencil as a symbol of mathematics, specifically how it relates to the pencil itself - it is used to solve math problems, and math is nothing if it can't be solved. The GIF in the background was mainly to hint at the symbolism to make it easier to understand, as well as provide an interesting background.
With my Simultaneity shots, I made another reference to motion in the form of water pouring from a faucet. In them, the water coming out was happening exactly as it was going down the drain. With the soft sounds of the water, I was able to contribute to the feeling of peace and quiet.
Next are my Leitmotifs, the theme being numbers. I used apartment number signs from my apartment complex walls to film them. I attempted to make the shots as equal in length as possible in order to create a feeling of a steady flow of the numbers counting up.
Finally, the Parallelism shots were to make i and π similar. I wanted to highlight that the two numbers were both 'imaginary' in that they are numbers that people can't really wrap their heads around. i is the square root of -1, and π goes on forever.