Theresa Walker- Revision Plan

     I’m currently cutting music from Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette to make the soundtrack for my movie. I couldn’t find a direct clip that fits all the points of my story, so I’m cutting segments from different parts and stitching them together. This is very time consuming since I have to find breaks in the music that cut easily, but I think it will work out. I plan on putting longer breaks in the narration of my story, specifically at the beginning and the end to give the audience some time to focus on the music. After I have a good soundtrack, I will adjust the pictures to fit. Then I will rerecord myself reading the story while watching the video and the music track, so that the narration fits the music. I’m planning on trying to change up my reading style, and am going to experiment with more/less dry tones of speaking to see what works. I’ve been cleaning up the cropping I did for the different layers of the pictures in my rough cut. I am also probably going to put a white outline around the subject layers. I watched a documentary that used that technique with historical photos, and I liked the paper doll effect that it made. I am going to change some of my backgrounds for scenes like the pistols and the bullets. For the scene where Berlioz travels from Rome Genoa on the train, I am going to get a little picture of a train and have dashes trail it, with a picture of his lost disguise. I am still planning to make this in GIMP rather than premiere or aftereffects, since I am much more comfortable with GIMP, and it is not overly time consuming to work with individual images. I think adding an animation towards the end of the story would feel awkward, since I’m going for a bit of a stop-motion effect with still images.