Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Commercial Project #2: UEFA Respect and Quesadilla, by Walk the Moon

New project, new commercial, new song: this time I chose the UEFA Respect commercial, that you can find below.



This time the song has something special: since the commercial was presented 2013 and UEFA is the "Union of European Football Associations", I looked for a song from the soundtrack of the most famous soccer video game, FIFA 2013. The song is Quesadilla, by Walk the Moon (here its link). 

First of all I downloaded the commercial and the song from youtube using this website (link).
I created a new project in GarageBand and I moved the video in the new project, as I had done with the Project #1 (here the link of that project). 
The real problem was editing the song: its length is more than 3 minutes, while the commercial is 30 seconds. I wanted to keep a part of the beginning and the refrain for this project and it took me three hours to find the exact 30 seconds that could fit in the commercial. For this part of the work I used Audacity, and if you read my older posts you can find everything about how to use that program. Below you can find the screenshot of my editing in Audacity.


After I saved the new edited song, I put it in GarageBand with the commercial and it looked like below.


When you have the song and the video on GarageBand, you need to silence the music of the video, so that you can have the song as a soundtrack for your commercial. If you want to know how to do it, check my previous project (here its link).
The problem now are the sounds present in the original commercial. In my video there are three sounds: the clapping hands in the beginning, the whistle of the coach and the whistle of the referee in the middle of the video. Since I had silenced all sounds of the original commercial, I had to look for those three on youtube. When I found them, I downloaded them (they were three different videos) and I edited them with Audacity. When they were ready and really close to the sounds of the original commercial, I added them in the GarageBand project, with the video and the new song. It looked like below.


At this point the project was finished, so I opened it as a movie and I saved it as a video, with the new song as soundtrack and the three sounds effect added at the end. Below you can find the new commercial.


I hope you enjoy my work. If you have any questions write a comment below!