Moving help

On Saturday I helped my friends Joanna and Jacob move to their new house. Joanna's brother, Daniel also helped. I took my camera gear including my GoPro hoping I could get some footage but my primary focus was in helping. I went to their old apartment to help load the truck they rented. They had already done the hardest part in boxing everything up so the move itself didn't take us that long. Jacob and Daniel loaded the large couch in the truck and I assisted Daniel with the smaller love seat. My arms were shot from this point. As you might notice in the video, I had energy but couldn't lift heavy so I kept working during break time to make up for it.

Once we got all the stuff loaded on the truck, we drove it to the new house. I rode in the truck so I decided to setup the GoPro to document the ride. I setup a shot facing inside to show the three of us in the cab and then flipped it out to capture the drive and area.

I had an idea and Daniel brought it up as well, to mount the GoPro on some furniture as it was being carried. The only problem with this was that it might hold up the task at hand. I noticed a window from the second story and went upstairs to mount it facing the truck. I started recording and got over an hour and twenty minutes of video before the battery died and since I didn't take my spares, that was enough. Check out the video below. I'll keep yapping away after you watch it. It's not available on mobile though.

Moving (in fast forward) GoPro edition

When I got back and started editing down the video, I decided to just have a quick intro of us riding in the truck. I spliced a few of the front and inside facing shots even though they're not simultaneous. It's called movie magic. I had so much footage but all from the same angle so I sped up the video 10x to get that timelapse effect. I also cut out all the footage where none of us were around. This makes it look like we were working much harder than we actually were. 

I didn't record sound. Well, I did but it's GoPro sound so it's terrible. I thought to track a song for the length of the video. I was looking through my library and found this cool song I thought matched and was long enough that I didn't have to keep cutting. I find out later it's not available on mobile but that's the risk with using copyright material. I don't know why they don't allow it. It's still making them money since I can't monetize it while using their song. Anyway, the song was slightly longer than the video so I added an outro linking to older videos of mine. I thought it turned out nicely.