Editing progress

EDITING

We chose to use Final Cut Pro because i feel more confident with this programme and feel more comfotable using it.

I ingested all the film from day one and two filming including the interview scene too, within correct time codes and waited for the clips to render. i used keyboard shortcuts to cut in (I) and cut out (O) of the film in order to save the clips i renamed them in order to make editing easier. For example, during the interview scenes i renamed them as Question one Take two, Question two Take three, Question 3 Take one, etc...

I arranged the scenes in order of the way they come up, for example, the note DID comes before the note WE is found.

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Yesterday (Monday 1st February) I ingested the film from Day 3 filming and watched it through to make sure the sound was alright, because during filming we noticed that the sound was jumping, so we changed the tape just incase it was faulty.

I went through the clips and marked them in and out, renaming them to make it easier to establish between the different scenes. I began editing together the clips adding fades and black outs, i decided a dissolve effect was better than a fade in fade out effect because it looks more dreamy, asif the character was having a flashback.

Our planning was beneficial because i new exactly how the group wanted it and was able to follow through faster. The group came round to see my progress and gave valid points on things which they felt needed to be added and changed.

With the music, i found one which best suited the video, its low percussion, piano with a slight beat 30 seconds in, i like the way it fitted perfectly with the scenes i have editied so far and i wont need to edit the music as it ends dramitally already.

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Today (Wednesday 3rd February) I did a bit more editing, i experimented with a few random shots we'd filmed, arranging clips in order to confuse the audience more, i added a few more fades/dissolves and edited a bit more of the interviews scene, the interview scene is by far the most difficult, we didn't plan it very well and so the shots are all over the place with no real structure to show where everything goes.

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Today (Saturday 6th February), i set myself a target to finish all the editing for the trailer today and i did. I began with picking out all the clips that looked best again trying to avoid the ones that had the mic boon at the top, after i had found all the good clips, i began arranging them from where i wanted them to cut in. i experimented with the saturation, mids, blacks and highlights, adjusting the warmth of the pictures by adding oranges and more blues to make it colder.
Under Video filters- colour corrector then i had a choice of yellows, greens, blues etc.
I took down the saturation by about 15% , shifted it slightly to the blues.
This was all a part of colour grading perfecting the lighting in order to create the moods we wanted. giving it a uniform feel, making some scenes warmer, for example, the scene with the dust and the sun coming through the letter box. i changed the colour magnitude making the door richer in colour. bumping up the highlights made the sunlighting coming through the letter box sparkle more.


With the IV Natalie N came up with the idea of having IV written along a line, so i downloaded a Font called Neon, under Video Generator effects, i clicked Boris then text scrambler, i increased the reveal time , decreasing the opacity creating the effect on IV....................
I experimented it with 3D by adding a spin in the axis, i then decided to add INDEPENDENT VARIABLE to the IV effect i did the same making it 3D nd put it underneath the IV line...............

To create the words, i clicked Apple V (paste) to keep pasting new clips and on each one i typed different words that best represented our soap, For example, like Love, Revenge, Hate, Success.etc it was rendering slowly so i created new sequence and pasted the words in because the text requires rendering and laying them all on top gives it a lot to do at once so it takes longer.
However one problem i had with the words was when the computer froze, after a quick panic, i was thankful to have saved it just before it closed but i still couldn't add anymore to it but i think i had added enough words anyway so i am grateful that worked out too.

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Some of the techniques i used:

• Additive dissolve- added the pictures together, and as a result the contrast inbetween becomes lighter


• in order to render i typed Alt- R


• During the bag swinging in the trailer i changed shot making it look more effective


• Snap time line, blade it and click A to select it


• One problem was with the mic boon in the top, so we zoomed in inorder to cut out the mic and keep the shot we had selected


• experimented with blurs, motion blur, wind blur, slit scan, bad tv, we finally chose effect light rays because it worked better than just a blur, it gave a dreamy/confusing effect.
• In order to make editing easier for me, i printed off a shortcut guide for editing.