Editing/ Research & Planning: Slow as a Snail (or so we thought)

We wanted to create a shot that involved slowing down our smashed glass. This means the impact, glass falling, the scattering of glass, everything, is going to be as slow as a snail. We wanted to create an impact so forceful and, well of course slow, that we would refer back to the forever smashing glass throughout the music video. Although the smashed glass we had used before was an experimental one, testing the slow motion effect, we still wanted to see what it looked like despite the not so good shot.

So when it was down to the four of us sitting in front of the mac, having no clue whatsoever of how we were going to achieve this effect. We resulted in the aid of my old friend. Google. Google helped me through a lot and I was 99.9% sure it would help us through this, and it did.

We found a YouTube website displaying a step by step guide on how to establish the slow motion effect, so as each step was displayed we mimicked that same step on the Mac. The guide involved opening the clip in Cinema Tools and increasing the frame rate, to the maximum, which in our case was 30fps. However (yes there is a however), the slow motion effect was not as slow as we wanted it to be and the reason for that was because the frame rate had to be increased, when I suggested this to a teacher it was discovered that by doing this majority of the shot would be out of focus and disillusioned.







Slow Motion effect using Cinema Tools





YouTube Video