Thursday 21 November 2013
So now onto the editing stage..... For this post i'm going to try and take you through the stages of me editing so you can understand what it is that i've done and what i'm aiming for.
Sequence settings
First thing i done was to select which takes i thought was the best out of what i'd filmed for the first and second scenes.
Once i had done that i then arranged it into order on the sequence.
I then began to color correct the second scene using the fast color correction tool to get the correct white balance, i also adjusted the black white and grey levels to make the footage slightly
brighter to get the light ambience from the laptop showing more.
Used the three-way
color corrector to adjust the luminance of the colors by lowering the
highlights and slightly increasing shadow threshold on the tonal range definition.
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| Used the vectorscope to see if the luminance levels coming from the laptop screens was broadcast safe whilst adjusting the levels |
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Added a vignette
to focus the attention on the actor and the laptop screen.
Added in curves
and adjusted the mid-tones to slightly increase the rays coming from the laptop and also
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| Added a vignette using the Magic Bullet Looks Pluggin |
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Added in a 35mm film grain to give the footage more of a filmic look, it also slightly brightened the contrasted shadows in the footage a bit as well.
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| 35mm Film grain applied to footage using the overlay blending mode |
For the mobile phone footage, I used auto
contrast, auto color and auto levels to give the mobile that realistic feel as
normally the way how a mobile phone video recorder functions is that its constantly
adjusting the levels whilst filming where you don’t get manual control over the
video recorder settings. I also added in the mosaic effect to make the footage pixilated
where the footage from my phone was to crisp/clean.
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| Before effects added |
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| Effects added |
Feedback/notes
Overall the look what i designed is what i was aiming for, however, because of the crop sensor on my camera, i was limited to how high i could boost my iso before you started to see a lot of noise, i couldn't use my 50mm f1.8 for the extra light ambience because i didn't have enough space in the room for the angle i wanted to film at, and my subject wouldn't be able to fit in the frame. When it came to post production, my footage was slightly noisy in the more contrasty parts of the composition when adjusting the brightness, there's a third party pluggin i came across that deals with noise called neat video, but unfortunately at this time i wasn't able to use the pluggin, but besides that i'm pleased with my end result.
