Developing a story using clips from existing videos in your collection is a great creative way to generate new material. Here is the process I used to create the video above.
1. Collecting Material
During my holiday in Wales, I recorded a whole series of shorter video scenes (over 30) with a wide variety of subjects, including some of the most dismal rainy day we encountered!
2. Looking for connecting threads
Reviewing the clips, I was struck by overlapping groups of clips that contained
- Walking/feet
- Water (rain, sea, rivers, faucets)
- Weather
3. First Story Board
Initially, I used a video editing program (Corel Video Studio 12) to simply arrange all the selected clips in these themes in chronological order, e.g.
- Standing in stream on Porthmadoc beach
- Walking out of stream into sea
- walking along in sea
- walking on dry sand
- Walking up to Watertank
- River Mawddach at Ty'n-yGroes
- Glaslyn River in Beddgelert gorge
- Walk in torrential rain back to cottage watertank
4. Edited Story Board
I then looked to see if I could rearrange the video clips to get a consistent story. The watercycle emerged as the main theme, walking as a connecting thread and the dripping water tank as the beginning and end. Superfluous clips were removed, resulting in:
- Walk in torrential rain back to cottage watertank
- Glaslyn River in Beddgelert gorge
- Walking out of stream into sea
- Walking up to dripping watertank
5. Completion
Trimming of final clips, insertion of transitions and addition of title and end.
Final run time 3 minutes and 29 seconds
Other combinations and different stories are possible from the original collection of 30+ video clips.
What's your story?
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