Editing Task- Practical

In this task I added and edited our newly filmed clips into our film opening. I used dropbox to add the clips from my phone as we decided to use my Iphone 7 as it was better quality than our camera that we alternatively used. I transferred the clips onto dropbox and downloaded them onto the desktop so that I could simply drag the clips into the right places in our film opening.



The screenshot below shows the new clips, saved into our coursework folder in our desktop.


In the screenshot below it shows that I have added in our new clip of blood dripping down Lucy's hand. I cut the beginning and ending of the clip as at the beginning it showed Eve pouring the food colouring onto Lucy's hand. I also cut the ending as the blood slowed down and began to stop dripping. I made sure that I overlapped this with the stream sound effect as the blood was dripping into the stream so would therefore sound more effective and realistic.


I then added in the clip where Lucy is lying dead by the side of the stream. We changed this clip from our other one by including a tilt upwards to show 'The killer' walking away from the body. I decided to film it in this way as I thought it would look more effective and creepy. I cut the beginning of this clip as it showed a pause before Josh started walking away from Lucy's dead body.


Next, I cut the clip where the animal blood drips onto the wet autumn leaves. I cut the end of this clip so that the clip only showed to points where the blood was dripping the fastest onto the leaves, to show that the stab had caused a lot of blood.


In the screenshot below it shows that I added the stabbing clip where Josh removed the bloody knife from Lucy's body. We didn't have to cut this clip because it was perfectly timed. However, we did decide to speed up the clip slightly to make the scene more intense.


I then added in the clip where it shows a extreme close up of Lucy's hand and hair being dragged away, down to the stream. This was a new clip that we decided to film so that our film opening would flow better.

Adding in Production Company logo

I added in Josh's production company logo into our film opening. I cut end of this clip as it showed the picture in burnt ashes for 2 seconds with nothing really happening in the clip,  therefore I decided to cut it.


In this screenshot it shows that I also cut the beginning of Josh's production company logo as it had a long pause at the beginning and it showed Josh lighting the picture. The camera also went very shaky at this point so I thought it would be best to cut the beginning.


I also decided that to make the production company logo look more professional and appealing to our audience, I waned to add sound effects to it. I decided to add diegetic sound of a crackling fire in the background so that you can hear the polaroid picture being burnt. I found a clip on YouTube which I thought fitted best with our clip and inserted the sound into our film opening. I then cut the sound so that it fit with the length of clip and so that the sound matched alongside with the production company logo.


I added a fade into the music so that there was an increase in volume when the fire was it its biggest, and as it started to go out I added a fade so that it sounded more realistic.


We later decided to play around with the lighting of the clip and adjusted it so that it was really dark in black and white other than the flame which was a strong orange red colour. This looks more effective and eye catching for the audience to watch. I also added a transformation so that it cut the brick out of shot to look more effective.

AS Media - Transition Experiment

The brief:

-To experiment with the transition of our typography

I started by searching for an appropriate transition for the clip pressing the icon below and decided on the Zoom transition in the bottom left of the screenshot below.

 

 

 

After this I needed to import, using CMD + I, the typography. This brought me to the screen below where I selected the file I needed.

 

 

 

After finding the file required I then imported it pressing the button below.

 

 

 

After this in the footage part of the screen the typography appeared so I selected it as seen below and then dragged it into the new project.



Here you can see I have placed the transition over the original clip in Final Cut Pro X

Here you can see the close up of the bladed (CMD + B) clip along with the transition placed on top of it, equating to a timed amount of 4 seconds.

Whilst watching over the footage I realised that it faded to black. to combat this I right-clicked the transition and clicked on the option below to stop it from doing so.

 

After this I then exported the file using the button below to both YouTube and the desktop.

 



The video link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqF8nwnrGg

AS Media - Adjusting Typography

The Brief:

- To amend the current typography of our film to compliment the transition and lighting of our film.

Initially, I used this photo:

For the amendment of the typography I used this screenshot of our opening clip:

Following the same steps as my previous blog regarding typography (as seen here) implementing the new picture as the background, I completed the typography.

However, I noticed that the text was not 'popping' as much as it should have in certain areas. So by following the same video I used to create the typography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S893jAVHP3Y, I was able to make the text be more prominent.

I did this by copying the layer by pressing CMD + J as seen below. After this, I pressed CMD + I to invert the layer mask, illustrated by the black box next to the copy of the layer.

Then by using the brush tool below, making sure that the white colour was my foreground colour. As seen in the screenshots below.

Using the dimensions below of 400 size and 25% opacity, I brushed over the area highlighted in the screenshot below to make that part of the text pop more and become more visible.

After doing this the adjustments were completed.

THE FINAL OUTCOME WAS THIS:

AS Media - Editing/Post Production

The brief:

- To edit a section of our final filmed piece

To start off the session, using CMD + I, I imported all of the media into a new project. after this I arranged all of the clips in chronological order as seen below.

Using the zoom slider located at the bottom right of the screen (as above) I zoomed into the clip for more precision to blade (CMD + B) the clip, to make this as precise and as smooth a transition as possible. (examples seen below)

As the beginning of our first clip is fairly long we decided to blade(CMD + B) the clip at the start by roughly 2 seconds shaving the time down, whilst also removing unnecessary footage. (seen below)

After this decision I further bladed the clip so that the unnecessary footage at the end of the clip was removed, whilst making the continuity from the first clip into the second was apparent.

After this to match the continuity form the first clip I bladed the second clip, making sure that the same leading leg went first, when the actress is walking, so that the continuity of the scene looks normal.

After this the actress, in the scene, begins to laugh and smile towards the end of the clip so we had to edit that out whilst getting as much footage out of it as possible so that the clip was not too short. This involved using CMD + 0 to make the zoom into the clip frame by frame making me able to precisely and accurately locate the point at which the actress turns her head.

After a lot of the same procedure being done for most of the clips we came across a part of our opening scene that was a slight challenge due to when we filmed the two clips from different angles the actress in frame bends down in different ways. Therefore we had to blade the majority of the end of the first scene so that the switching of angles from in front to behind more seamless and continuous. Then we needed to blade the next clip so that the moment at which the actress is bent down matches when she stands back up, this involved again zooming into the frame by frame breakdown of the clip and blading the beginning of the clip to match the exact position of the actress. This is seen through the following two screenshots of the progress of cutting each clip to match one another.

After this there is a sequence, in which the actress in frame puts a pair of earphones in, encapsulated in a close up of her ear and a mid shot surrounding this with her entering the frame. This was especially difficult in comparison to the other clips I had been editing, due to the close up needing to be in the middle of the mid shot. This meant firstly I had to blade the start of the clip to match the previous clip. After this I then had to blade the mid shot clip at the point that the actress put the pair of earphones in illustrated in the third screenshot down.

After this I then bladed the close up clip so that the exact footage that was necessary (the earphone going in her ear) was captured in the clip. (As illustrated in the screenshots below)

After this we had a clip of blood dripping on the floor in a substantially too long clip, so I bladed the clip so that the shorter more relevant clip was formed (below left). Whilst watching over the footage my peers and I noticed that there was a small yet noticeable amount of shaking from the camera. So we used the 'Stabilization' function (below right) so that the motion of the camera would be stabilised and smooth instead of tiny jitters being apparent. This was indicated by the orange highlighting on the time part ontop of the clip (below left).

AS Media - Editing Practical - Fight Scene

The Brief:

- To utilise editing in creating a new atmosphere to a scene

My choice of clip was this

taken from a scene in Sherlock Holmes.

After watching this clip for the first time I had already decided straight away that I wanted to include a heart beat whilst the main protagonist is thinking and the time had slowed down.

The clip was way too long to edit in its entirety so I decided to use the blade tool in final cut to change the clip length to a suitable time and cutting out any unnecessary footage.

After watching my first cut clip again (as seen above) I decided that the background noise in the clip was not suitable for the effect that I wanted to create so I detached the audio from this clip. making the bar beneath the clip go blank (as seen below).

After this I decided that I would include a breathing sound effect and a heart beat effect. I placed this in a new channel on final cut that i would use for any additional/external music needed for the rest of the clip. (as seen below)

Then looking at my next clip I decided to continue on the sound effect of the heart beat making it continuous throughout the moment of pause that the main character goes through.

After this the clip comes back to real time therefore I decided to make the heart beat continuous as the character it speaking in his thoughts. After this he stands still and prepares to fight. After noticing this i decided to find a faster clip of a heart beating to show the adrenaline that the character is building up whilst fighting.

As seen above the audio is detached this was a decision I made to make the focus on the character and the actions that he is about to be involved in. Also the cheering in the background distracted the focus of the scene away from the character so I decided to remove it.

After this I noticed that the sound of the heart beat was faded in the actual fighting part of the scene so I decided to raise the noise of it making the audio peaks turn red and yellow. Also I ended up keeping some of the audio towards the end and made the heart beat go from fast back down to slow to show how after the fight he returns to normality.

Link to my editing practical:

Fade to black

For this editing practical, I put a fade to black effect on a short clip to see the effect and to practice for when we do it for ours, to see what speed is good, the length of time it should be and when it should start in the clip etc. I found a clip I took when I was skiing, so it is quite fast paced and the handheld camera has a shaky, dangerous effect. I thought because of this that the fade should be quite fast to build suspense, but in the actual film opening being slower would create more suspense. 

Here is the final video.