Once I had all the files rendered I need to put them together with a video editing software, originally I was going to use Windows movie maker, but its not possible to have multiple audio tracks. I downloaded a trail version of Adobe Premiere. I watched a quick tutorial on how to use Premiere, as I have never used it before, I found the program easy to use and I can have multiple audio track for the video. I got my audio sample from 2 different website:
For the music I found an old copy of the star wars sound track on my computer. The music is by John Williams and is from the 3rd star wars film. The song is called: Battle of the Heroes.
I made an overlay in Photoshop by using a transparent gradient, the overlay will be used to darken the edges of the video, I find this to be a nice effect for short animations/videos.
On one layer I applied the overlay for the full 30 seconds, on the other layers I have the video clips and sound files. I put a gap before last scene, to create anticipation as the viewer hear R2D2 screaming.
I used a three Way colour corrector on all the scene to soften the colours for the eyes, and to try and get that film look to the animation.
I also used a brightness and Contrast effect to counter some of the side effect from the three way colour effect.
On some of the audio clips I change their volume overtime, for instance when the mouse droids get closer the volume gets louder, and then gets quitter when moving away. I also doubled up the mouse droid audio file to get the impression that there is more than one mouse droid.
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