Subtitles

Subtitles

Subtitles are a vital thing when it comes to video. Subtitles are an important part to somebodies life who have no ability of hearing or struggle to hear. 

To access subtitles on YouTube you need to go to 'Creator Studio'. To do this you click on your profile picture which is in a circle shape to the top right of your webpage. 

After this you will be taken to your 'Creator Studio' which us a gallery of your latest videos and options/setting for those videos and youtube channel.

You'll notice under each video it says 'Edit', if you click on that it will take you into the video editor for that specific video. At the bottom just under the time of the video you will see these 5 tabs. Click on the far right one.

It will then bring you into the captions and subtitles page for your video. Here you will be able to add each sentence manually or enable the automatic mode where it will automatically guess what you are trying to say. I'll be honest, it's not great. 

I decided to manually add my subtitles as I was also be able to manually punctuate it too. What I did do which may or may not have been easier was to turn on automatic mode and let it guess, but the go down the timeline and change the subtitles to what they actually are.

Here is what it looked like in the end:

Interactive: Drugs are Bad for You!

Interactive: Drugs are Bad for You!

As part of our latest project for Interactive we have to create an advert that lasted around 10 to 20 seconds that is based around a subject our lecturer has given us.

Some examples of these are:

"Phones shouldn't be used in class"
"Time keeping is important"
"Keeping safe on the web"
"Don't take food and drink into the classroom"

And many more, but based on the title of this post you have probably realised by now that the one I was given is "Drugs are bad for you".

Personally I agree with this statement, even tough some drugs aren't that 'bad' or you, they still effect you in some way, shape or form, that could range from health-related issues or things like money issues.

With some drugs, you apparently have a 'high' point and then a really 'low' point - my question is: "is it really worth it?"

So my idea for this animation... I'm sure people are aware with the saying "Throwing your money down the drain", right?

That is the general idea that I am going with on this project, as well as many other points such as the highs and lows and health issues but my main priority for this ad/campaign is to show that buying drugs and having the aftermath only last a short period of time is literally a waste of money and you may as well throw your money down the drain or burn it. It's not just as simple as that tough, addictions could get worse and worse and that results in more money being spent which could ultimately result in something being very, very bad finically.

For somebody to go "Meh, it's only weed, it's not bad for you" - They'd probably be right, but it's things in the future and other potential risks not strictly health-related that can effect the person. 

The way I want to show this visually is a cartoon-based animation where you see cartoon money going down a carton drain and so on. I also want to animate a person deteriorate over the period of the 20 seconds too, which is quite fast, but I think that'll be great because people will be able to see the effects of a person so fast and could be shocked at what they see and change their mind/views on taking drugs. It's worth a shot!