Every one of my artistic compositions, no matter how big or small, have always embodied some sort of theme. With this in mind, I immediately looked for a motif when creating this project. After playing around with the video clips, I came across one particular pattern where I placed them in reverse chronological order. From here, my idea has evolved.
After placing them in this order, I wanted the most appropriate background music. I went into Audacity and started playing with the audio files. I found one that I liked a lot. I stopped at this point and went back to my video composition to see how I’d work it in. From here, I decided I wanted to speed up the pace of my video footage. I also added a shatter effect to transition from clip to clip for aesthetic purposes. After doing that, I went back to Audacity and sped up my audio file so that it could remain consistent with the footage.
I noticed there was one part of the song in particular that I liked a lot. I then cut this down, imported it into Windows Movie Maker, and repeated it throughout the video. I’ve added a fade in to the first audio file and a fade out to the last audio file. The last decision I made was the title. Because the actions in this short short are being carried out in reverse chronological order, I decided that the perfect title for my theme would be “Retrogress” and so it was named.
