Final Version Of Lost

While I liked the experimental version of 'Lost', I felt like it could use some work, particularly on the sound front and also trying to make the video flow more in time with the soundscape. There were a couple of things I wanted to change especially.

In the experimental piece, I deliberately left in a cough on one of the sat nav instructions. The effect it created was one of annoyance, you wanted the person to shuttup and it got more annoying as the video went on. While I was going for being annoying and building up that level of tension, the cough began to annoy me and so taking that out or only using it very sporadically was important.

Sound isn't my strongest point on video and so it was important to really try and work on the soundscape since in this video, it's as important as the visuals. It was decided that building up the tension and gradually increasing the different instructions going on as well as the volume would help build that tension and get more annoying and overwhelming as the video progresses. I think this final version achieves that and to check it did what I wanted, I had my house mates watch it.

Now when watching it, the video isn't edited down to a tee to go in time with the sound, but it does have more of a rhythm and does fit more in time with it than the experimental version. To try and reflect the confused, frustrated feel of being lost, I upped the pace of the cuts, so the scene changes more. I also tried to blend in more road signs that add to the confusion and went through all my footage to find two more sat nav sounds that I had used to give the video a better beginning and an ending that resolves the issue of being lost.

I'm very happy with this video because by the time it was done, I'd got up to 20 sounds layers on several parts and it was getting rather confusing for someone not used to editing video. I don't think I need to touch anything up on this video and so I have one of my final pieces.