The Ghost of Mackinac Island

To get a feel for editing, my Field Production and Editing I teacher gave us some footage of Mackinac Island he shot years earlier. It was a basic assignment to learn how to log and capture, snap clips together, and play around with transitions in Final Cut Pro 7.

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I went a step beyond and made a fun little story from the footage. I had a fun time with effects to make some of the footage look "old and dated" to symbolize the part of the video that refers to a certain time period. This video was the first time I experimented with the dissolve transition to have a person "disappear" from the scene.