Audio Overlays: I'm Diggsin' It

For those of you keeping track at home, that's two awful pun post titles in a row! Can I go for the hat trick on Friday? Stay tuned.

Anyway, I just got back from our third lab, where we played around with audio overlays. Our objective was simple: Use the audio of someone talking and splice it up with a video of them doing something else. Last night I had rehearsal for wind ensemble (a wind ensemble for which I play the... drums for) so I figured I'd ask the director, David Diggs, if I could ask him a few questions and film him conducting. He gladly obliged, so I had fresh video to work with upon entering this afternoon's class.

It was really quite simple splicing and dicing the audio, so I decided to challenge myself a little bit and go further. Plus, I'm always trying to better acquaint myself with Windows Movie Maker, so I thought it would be good to play around once I got the gist of it. I experimented with cutting in and out of the video of Professor Diggs' actual interview (all while the clip's audio was playing) so it would look something like you see in a professional television interview. WMM only has so many editing capabilities, so I didn't fully achieve what I set out to do, but I think you'll get the picture. Also, I let the music run into the credits, which added a nice touch. Here's the video:

This week's only "headache" came with trying to get good lighting during filming, since I shot the interview in a relatively dark part of Zoellner and the practice room was rather dimly lit as well. It was pretty manageable, though, and I still think the end result looks okay given the circumstances. I can't wait to actually start learning proper shooting techniques so the videos will start looking, you know, good. I think we start on that road with next week's lab.

How did everyone else do today? Any problems or cool things you found? Can't wait to see your videos.