Post 10: Post-Production

After we finished our filming we then had to edit our opening sequence together. We started off with capturing the footage that we had recorded. It was here we had a problem, due to time and hardware constraints we chose to go against using a logging rush to capture our footage off the camera. Instead of just capturing the scenes we needed we went and captured all of the footage on the camera. This ended up aiding us rather than hindering us because it meant that we had more footage to play around with, thus giving the sequence more pollish in the long run.

The next thing we had to do after this was cut down the scenes to the individual shots. This is so that we can put it into the correct order and cut them down so that they're well paced. To do this I used the razor tool, selecting it with either C or by clicking on the razor icon. After we separated them we then got them all in order and placed them over 2 channels. This was so that if we accidental crossover shots they wouldn't be cut down.

The next challenge we faced was creating the split screen shots. To get this effect I started off by layering the 2 videos on top of each other so that they were running at the same time. I then clicked on the picture that was on top and went over to the effect controls of the video and selected the motion option. From here I then selected scale and lowered it to 50%, I then went to the position controls and placed it so that it was in the corner of the frame. To set the other picture I did the same but just moved it to the other corner of the frame.

One problem that we uncounted during editing was that for some of the shots inside the garage the lighting was very dim, to the point where you couldn't make out the actors faces. To get around this we used a combination of lighting effects and colour correction. We started off by using colour correction to brighten the picture up a bit. To do this we went to Video Effects>Colour Correction>Brightness and Contrast and then dragged the effect onto the video that we wanted to change. To change the brightness we then had to go into the video effects and play around with the numbers until the video looks better than it did before. The second thing we did was use a lighting effect to shed more artificial light in the scene. This was done in a very similar way to the brightness and contrast effect.

When we were done we then had to export the video as an AVI file so it could be uploaded to Youtube. To do this i simply went to File then Export, chose the file destination and then waited for it to finish.