First Viewing of Videos

Today we watched each other's opening sequences and gave feedback. For Maisha and me the most part of the feed back was to finish and cut down the time. Our video currently is running at 3 mins 10 seconds and our target is 2 mins. Luckily this isn't a problem as we have several long shorts that can be cut down and there are a few clips that we don't need at all so that will cut off about a minute.

Another problem we have is the sound. The sound levels of the clips don't match at all, in one clip it's very loud and in the next it's extremely quiet. There is also a few clips with interference but the only thing to do about that is to re- record the sound and place it over the video.

Also, we need to add the titles but they're being done separately and will be added later.

Finally, we need to finish the special effects that we've started. The ones that were finished surprised the class (in the good way) so they should be good once they've finished. One of the students said "it has potential to be good, but it just needs to be finished.

Continuity

While filming we had to shoot on seperate days and we came across a major continuity flaw. Nese's top wasred on the first day but grey on the others which I've shown in the pictures below.

At first I was going to scrap the footage and cut the shot out completely, but the scene looks weird without the full shot. Then I thought of films like Pleasantville when they make one object in colour and the rest in black and white and vice versa. I looked online for tutorials of how to do this and followed the video.

All I had to do was add the 3-way colour corrector effect tot he clip and used the dropper tool to select the red and set the saturation to zero. Then I expanded the colour selection until Nese's whole top was grey.

After doing this I realised it was effecting Christie's top and made the room really bright. To stop this I put an Eight-Point Garbage Matte around Nese and overlaid the video on an untouched copy of the video.

This is the before and after images.