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Our Preliminary Exercise

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Beginning To Edit Our Film...

Today we watched our footage again and then began to edit it.
As the footage we filmed outside is very light, we tried to make it much darker/more dull by changing the contrast, brightness, saturation and balance on the clips. This worked because it meant the clouds and blue sky were no longer visible, although everything that was white in the footage became much brighter but I liked the effect this had, it made it seem abnormal which reflects the story of the film - something out of the ordinary.
We also played around with these settings in the dark room scenes and tinted them so they were more red which made it look much more scary than the original piece of footage.
We then began to select the clips of film that we definately wanted to use and then started to slice them up and mix them around to see what they looked like in different orders, etc.
We muted most of our footage too, to get rid of the sound of wind and our directions to each other, but we edited some parts so that we kept some of the noise - such as the sound of the door closing when Charlotte walks out of her front door and the creak of the door as Sarah's dad walks into the dark room.
After doing a small piece of editing we all went away feeling slightly happier about what we had and how we could develop it into something much more impressive.

Now we have to take the pictures of his victims again so that we can film the pan of the dark room/credits again with more visible pictures of us. After that we are finished filming and it will all be editing from then on.

2 comments:

Miss Foster said...

Great detail Molly - this really helps with how much effort your group is putting in to this project, and how you've ended up making certain decisions etc.

Any pics? Still screenshots of the location filming?

Molly Wing said...

Yep I added some to my post called Our second day of filming.

There's a great picture of Sarah's dad!