Editing Practical
As we are including a
time lapse in our final product we had to take a long clip of a stationary
shot, we didn’t complete a proper time lapse as our time in London was limited.
We did the shot on the side of a busy street, the footage we captured then had
to be sped up, we did this by increasing the speed 500X. The speed that we increased the clip was debated on several times as we wished to keep the sound from the original clip and we didn't want to distort is too much that it was unrecognisable and we didn't want to have the clip so slow that it was just a sped up clip of traffic. after several different speeds we decided on 500X. This clip was then
inserted in the correct place in the montage and effectively created a time lapse
like piece of footage.
After making the time lapse like scene we split it in two
and moved it so that we could use it as two clips to help break up the singular
footage of Emma’s character. This was done with a few other clips as well and
we found that it helped the montage keep interest instead of making it boring. we later changed this so that we used a different bit of footage for the time lapse o that we didn't seem as though we were repeating ourselves.
As our clips overlapped the time allocation we were given we
had to cut some shots to make them shorter, we did this with a long shot of our
character leaning against some wooden doors, we found this shot effective yet
as it was a still we had to cut it down to make it a more appropriate length, we later, after consideration, made the shot longer again as it was our best shot so we wanted it to have the most time on screen, we also added a title to the shot so we needed more tine for the title.
We had left a blank space where we wished to insert our
title which will be white text against a black screen, this had to be an
appropriate length as it needs to be establishing yet not be too drawn out
either, this was simple in its execution. when we later added the tile we had the black screen immediately after the shot, before adding the title screen in, we made this seem professional looking by adding a blaring train horn before the title became visible, this was effective.
A lot of the editing process is just re arranging the clips
to get the best out of the footage that we received, by carefully placing clips
in a certain order we could create a montage that would be effective and not
too repetitive. we also needed to be careful with sound as some shots were louder than other, by minding this we were able to get the best out of the footage we had yet it took a while to get the perfect order. The order of clips often changed as we realised that somethings
didn’t fit, or made the sequence seem forced of clunky.
I also did some colour grading on one of the clips, it was the tube station scene as the original footage was really yellow, to counter this I made the shot more blue and downed the contrast ad so the colour seemed more drawn out, this was something we included in all the shots to make our character more devoid of life and happiness. This editing of the colour was appropriate and as we made the colour seem drawn out in most of the shots we managed to keep the bright blue of the double doors in our best scene.
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