Mission Possible

Uff da! Making movies can take a very long time!!!! I thought it would be kind of cute to respond with a video to an email I received from Matt Fort. Why? Because he was asking me if I was willing to accept a nomination. However he used the phrase "accept this mission" and I thought he signed it Agent Phelps.

Now mind you I am not an old Mission Impossible fanatik. So I had to look up Agent Phelps online. I had to find a female character name and everything! My friend looked up the exact wording the the missions Phelps would receive. I had a general idea but would have missed alot of it.

So there I was with all this information and I was going to reply to his email with a boring old email but now that darn theme song kept running through my head. So my first thought was to try and type out the theme song using some word and spaces to capture the rhythm. But I couldn't figure out the right word and then couldn't figure out how to do the rhythm. It just wasn't coming together. I mean what was it supposed to look like? "bum...bum...bum bum bum...bum...bum bum..." And then what about the "do do doooo.....do do dooo....do do dooooo....do do" part? It just looks stupid!

So I decided I should find the music and just add that to the email. Well, I had the music on youtube, but didn't know how to edit it down from over 3 minutes in length. So as my friend searched music files, I started on a video.

This is only the second time I've worked with the video editing. Unfortunately, I have alot of hours of tape to work with and little in actual completed projects when it comes to videos. My first attempt at editing videos was the great feature "Hissy Cat" which can also be found on my blog sites. This however, was a new adventure because it was the first time I added and played around with audio. That was something else!

First we put it on a flash drive from her computer and then tried to play it on my computer. That seemed to work. I even dragged it into movie maker and it seemed to play from there. Cool! So I started my slides and brought in some photos. Everything seemed to be going well until I tried to move the music and my computer crashed!!! Apparently the audio file was not saved in a workable format. So after I decided I had to just shut down and reboot, I was able to log on and luckily the project was saved in draft form. Yeah! So I put the flash drive in again, saved it directly to "my music files" and then uploaded it into the movie maker program. Once it was there I could drag it into the audio line of the timeline/storyboard. Phew!!

Then I started playing with the lengths of the clips, moved the sound so it came in at the right time and everything ended at the right time, added a few transitional effects and picture effects and voila! I had another movie. Oh, and I found a site with free sound effects which I was also able to take advantage of for my final clip on the storyboard. Here's the site: http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/mechanical_sounds.html There are 10 different categories and probably hundreds of free sound clips they've put out for anyone to use (appropriately of course).

So take a look at my not so impossible mission movie: