post production

Post production report

After we had finished recording the footage, we had to upload it to Adobe Premier for editing. We plugged in the camera and it started to capture the footage onto the software. Once that had finished, we watched all the footage and began to remove the un-needed footage. We felt that we didn’t need a logging rush as there were only 5 shots with not a lot of footage so we just got on with it and started to edit the footage.

We put all our footage into a time line and used the cut tool to separate the different scenes. Below is the time line. You can see all the footage with a all the necessary cuts in the correct places.

The next stage was to add some transitions. We did not add many as we wanted the footage to flow relatively quickly and most film texts we have watched use straight cuts. We added a cross dissolve when both actors began to sit down so to separate the entering the room shot with all the dialogue, I think this worked well. The rest of the footage we kept with straight cuts to keep the footage flowing at a quick tempo.

There were no unwanted diagetic noises which meant there was no need to re film footage. For some of the strait cuts, we adjusted the sound levels so they faded in and out which helped show an end to that shot, it was anything drastic, the fades only lasted about half a second.

We thought we would add some music to the intro scene to add a little bit of humor to it. We thought that the opening shot was a little dull (person walking into a room with camera panning). We cut the music as the actor knocked on the door so you could hear the actor inside the room say “come in.” we added a countdown some bars and tone to make to film look more professional. Finally, we watched it back to check for any mistakes we might have missed and rendered it.