Started editing a couple weeks ago after sorting through all the preposterously long shots that I took, and I started to realise that it is a fudge-load easier if you have a specific idea of what you want the film to look like and how the shots unravel. I went into shooting with a set shot-list of what shots I wanted and added a few more shots while I was there.
Sorting through the shots was tedious, to say the least. But after it was all done I could finally start on some proper editing. I think that the sorting would have been easier if I had done every shot within one take instead of resetting the shot and continuously recording. Although after all the sortingness it was easy to find a shot that wasn't an outtake and put it straight into the project.
Another problem I encountered was the computer not being able to cope with the copious amounts of resolution that I shot in. It seems that 2GB of RAM is nowhere close to enough to needed to edit 1080p footage on Premiere Pro or After Effects. I've now learnt that it's better to shoot in something like 720p when having limited computer power.
Getting to the state of a rough edit took a long time, but I'm almost there just a few more snips of footage and I'll have a rough cut to get some feedback on from ma homies. The rough cut will be a close match to what I want the final to look like, but if people suggest something that could be better or just say that it doesn't work, then I'll change it.
The other things to add in after that are the over-dubbing as some of the audio isn't of great quality, but once that is done I hope to have a finished movie-intro.
Showing posts with label Editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Editing. Show all posts
24/11/2011
Preliminary Task
It wasn't exactly hard for us to come up with an idea for someone walking into a room, saying a few lines and then exiting. The four of us, Jake, Evie, Bill and Me all got into a group. My first idea was gangsters, which eventually turned into British gangsters who deal sanwiches at low prices of 10p and who are in a loving relationship. I'm not sure if we were going for comedy or not, but either way it turned out like that. Our project turned out as being comedy from the outset. It's set in a music department cupboard because that is all that we could find. When we got in their we could only fit two people in along with the places for the different aspects of the camera angle. Unfortunately we had to leave someone outside, which was Evie, although it was a short task so it was only for about 10 or so minutes.
Evie didn't seem too concerned about the sounds coming from inside the cupboard. And how we'd got to the final storyline inside the cupboard. We made most of the detail of the gangsters inside the cupboard, our original idea was just to have some gangsters who deal sandwiches. It was eventually extended to cover a loving relationship, cramped conditions, awkward snatching of drugs and money and a small conversation about what was in the sandwich.
Instead of telling about how weird it is, you might aswell watch it;
P.S. It's in black and white cos we're cool.
Evie didn't seem too concerned about the sounds coming from inside the cupboard. And how we'd got to the final storyline inside the cupboard. We made most of the detail of the gangsters inside the cupboard, our original idea was just to have some gangsters who deal sandwiches. It was eventually extended to cover a loving relationship, cramped conditions, awkward snatching of drugs and money and a small conversation about what was in the sandwich.
Instead of telling about how weird it is, you might aswell watch it;
P.S. It's in black and white cos we're cool.
28/10/2011
Filters and Effects
I've been experimenting around with different effects that give a Watchmen look. I didn't really get anywhere for a while and eventually came up with a look that I liked and wasn't too hard to get to, I logged all the adjustments I had done to keep track of what was changed. I started with the basics of what I could pick out from the shots of Watchmen.
I applied a full contrast, took away half the saturation of the image, sharpened the edges three times and an overall sharpen effect. Then I chose a filter to apply to all of the image, which I chose as a very dark blue with a density of about 30%.
I think that this effect worked well, although there was a bit too much noise created by the sharpening effects, also because the shot was outdoors looking into a dark area with an overexposed area to the left of it, the over exposed portion was blurred and wiped away by the high contrast.
Above: Edited. Below: Original
Above: Edited. Below: Original
The shot is quite moody and sad. This is made by the contrast being very high, the saturation being quite low, and a photo filter which in this shot is a light brown. Although the background in this shot is probably a image laid over a blue screen, which would give the director an infinite choice of the mood of the shot in post production. The choice made was to have the shot reflecting the character, and made it a very depressing and bland shot. The focus is also drawn to a badge the character is holding, this is done by selecting a colour that isn't affecting by the filter. In other shots there is no focus and everything in the shot is drab.
I tried reaching the same effects by applying what I thought would achieve the same effects. I started out with one tester image of what I was trying to get to:
I applied a full contrast, took away half the saturation of the image, sharpened the edges three times and an overall sharpen effect. Then I chose a filter to apply to all of the image, which I chose as a very dark blue with a density of about 30%.
I think that this effect worked well, although there was a bit too much noise created by the sharpening effects, also because the shot was outdoors looking into a dark area with an overexposed area to the left of it, the over exposed portion was blurred and wiped away by the high contrast.
This is the original photo, I did attempt to changed the over-exposed part but it only ended with one area being too exposed or the entire image losing it's contrast and detail.
I also experimented with layers that pronounced the edges more clearly, this worked but again it created noise on the edges.
Here are some more shots that I used a perfected the shot overall shot effect:
When I get the chance I will set up some sort of shot that will be similar to one that I plan to get in the final coursework I will apply the effects and tweak them to suit the shot.
22/10/2011
Editing The Hangover
So this was our first try at editing something on this strange new piece of software called 'Adobe Premiere Pro'. I've been using Sony Vegas 9 for a couple years every now and then, so I found switching to Premiere quite easy. I found the new software absolutely amazing. It catered for all the needs in our post production, and I look forward to using it in the future. We were able to set edit the audio and video in the way we needed, and it also covered the little things we needed to do, like putting effects on the audio and color correction.
The use of it can vary from the really basic, with just creating a title and editing shots, but we wanted to get the best edit of our shots and used Premiere to the fullest extent. We were able to have as many video and audio tracks as we wanted, so we put either; opposite shots on alternating tracks or, with Phil and Tracy's phone conversation, we used alternating tracks for each of the characters. The audio for some of the tracks was a real hazard for us novices, sometimes the audio of another shot would overlay the video of another shot in the original hangover cut. We had to move around this and find a way to easily do this. It turned to be quite simple, but it just took a bit of brain work. Which we were lacking on a Monday morning. All we had to do on these was get the shots lined up, unlink each of them, remove the audio on the previous and extend the audio on the second shot. And the opposite for the video. This occurred a few times, but after the first time we had it laid out.
The audio effects were pretty easy, to get the sound of a mobile signal and phone we used a high pass filter and the volume control. Basics. We used color correction on the Phil shots, which was also pretty easy, after a technician had shown us a useful tri-wheel color correction effect, we were pretty confident on the look we wanted and saved it as a preset, then all we had to do on the other shots was to drag and drop the preset and BOOM! it was done.
The music was easy, all it needed was to be dragged into it's own audio track, then volume key points were logged in, and BOOM! another one bites the dust. The titles and credits were on Bill's part and were also pretty easy, just a quick Photoshop job on the font, dragged and dropped into the project on our computer, then placed on the shot at the right time, with the right additive dissolve added and BOOM-BANG-A-RANG another one's gone. The title of the hangover wasn't quite what we wanted, but it still showed that we had tried to copy the title's and got the effect that displays them done pretty well. It still matched up with the original well, even if it did look a bit cheesy.
The use of it can vary from the really basic, with just creating a title and editing shots, but we wanted to get the best edit of our shots and used Premiere to the fullest extent. We were able to have as many video and audio tracks as we wanted, so we put either; opposite shots on alternating tracks or, with Phil and Tracy's phone conversation, we used alternating tracks for each of the characters. The audio for some of the tracks was a real hazard for us novices, sometimes the audio of another shot would overlay the video of another shot in the original hangover cut. We had to move around this and find a way to easily do this. It turned to be quite simple, but it just took a bit of brain work. Which we were lacking on a Monday morning. All we had to do on these was get the shots lined up, unlink each of them, remove the audio on the previous and extend the audio on the second shot. And the opposite for the video. This occurred a few times, but after the first time we had it laid out.
The audio effects were pretty easy, to get the sound of a mobile signal and phone we used a high pass filter and the volume control. Basics. We used color correction on the Phil shots, which was also pretty easy, after a technician had shown us a useful tri-wheel color correction effect, we were pretty confident on the look we wanted and saved it as a preset, then all we had to do on the other shots was to drag and drop the preset and BOOM! it was done.
The music was easy, all it needed was to be dragged into it's own audio track, then volume key points were logged in, and BOOM! another one bites the dust. The titles and credits were on Bill's part and were also pretty easy, just a quick Photoshop job on the font, dragged and dropped into the project on our computer, then placed on the shot at the right time, with the right additive dissolve added and BOOM-BANG-A-RANG another one's gone. The title of the hangover wasn't quite what we wanted, but it still showed that we had tried to copy the title's and got the effect that displays them done pretty well. It still matched up with the original well, even if it did look a bit cheesy.
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