Uganda Water Well Video
I loved getting a chance to make this video. It is celebrating 2 of the water wells that CBC funded through Living Waters International in Gulu, Uganda. All of the footage was gathered by the Outbound team at CBC. Amazingly a lot of the footage was shot on a Canon SD800 point and shoot camera. I decided to use the old film look to cover up the low resolution and the shakiness of the shots, and to give it a gritty look. The voice on the video is David Mann, the leader of Outbound at CBC, speaking to the CBC staff at our Monday praise and prayer meeting. I loved searching through the long audio clip to find the perfect sound bytes to tell the story. This video will show this coming weekend at church, so you are getting a little sneak peak. Let me know what you think.
Uganda Water Well from Kyle Isenhower on Vimeo.
As a little extra, here is a little glimpse of what the After Effects composition looked like:
Very cool. I love the film treatment and the framing.
Question, as I’ve been working with AE over the last couple of months, Ive noticed that I have a really hard time creating edits that are more audio intensive. Did you build this whole piece in AE? Or did you take the AE elements into something else and layover audio? If it was all in AE, how did you do all the audio layovers and timing, cause I haven’t found a good real time way to preview audio with video.
I built the audio before I even began on the video (say dog see dog…thanks Dr. Hadley). I used my video editor of choice (Avid on Mac) to lay down the music and voice sound bytes first, and then exported the audio into After Effects. It is really hard to edit to the audio in AE because of how slow watching RAM previous can be sometimes, so I hand wrote out the timings of where I wanted specific shots or text. Then when I went into the AE comp I knew where to lay down what. Then I only had to do small tweaks to match it up with the audio. Maybe not the best workflow, but it worked for me.
Ok, this sounds similar to what I do. I thought I was a bit crazy, but it’s nice to know that it is difficult to edit to audio in AE.
Cool stuff!