Où est ma moustache Mademoiselle? (Part Two)

In this post I want to examine some of the edits in closer detail. The audio plays a big role in making the transitions work well, bringing them to life.




I put the video into Premiere and sliced it up with the razor tool. I noticed that the magic in the sequence above is 15 frames long. Each of these 15 frames is cut out of a longer sequence, so the effect is one where the footage speeds up. The sound effects make the fast editing stand out. Here's how they did it:

This shot is held for just over 3 seconds or 92 frames.

This shot lasts for one frame.

All of these shots are a single frame too.

Here's my attempt at recreating the shot sequence:

Here's my original video:


original from Men Glaw on Vimeo.

What I discovered re-creating the video is that the editor has cut out individual frames from the original video and put these frames into a timeline in a sequence. As I mentioned above, the thing that really makes the effect powerful is the crackling, fizzing, popping sound effect underneath.

Here's my timeline so you can see what I've done. The original video is on the bottom video line V1. My video is on the video line above V2.