Film Making: November 2014

Friday, 28 November 2014

Screen Shots Of My Editing

This first screen shot is me checking the audio, as you can see, the audio levels are on the left and the video is on the right, giving me a clear view of my workspace. This allows me to check if the audio is clear throughout the whole video and to make sure the audio suits with the image that is shown.

In these images, this me editing the special effects for each image that appears. For each image I add at least two or three special effects to make it look professional, a fade in or fade out, a animation for the image to move and colour change.
This makes my film smooth and easy to watch, I didn't want to make something that was rough and unwatchable.

In this image, its the time line, I picked out a lot of images to make sure that they suit of what the couple is saying, for example, if my grandmother is talking about her early days then I would show a picture of her younger self to give a better picture to the audience. However, there isn't any footage of my grandparents talking as it was unclear and unusable so I separated the audio from the video . But, using images along with the audio, it turns into an almost of a story you could either listen or watch. As you can see, the pink boxes are the images and blue long box is the audio, I wanted to make my work space clear and easy to work with as with crowds of clips and audio always gets me overwhelmed how much there is on screen, so instead, I used little special effects on image to make the timeline clearer.

In this image, I am editing the titles of the documentary. I wanted to make it a simple, easy to look at title. I didn't want anything flashy nor anything eye popping, my aim here was to give the affect that this is professional work and I am aiming to give the affect that this personal and perhaps maybe a little bit serious with a touch of humour. I was going to add music but I couldn't find anything that suited the titles unfortunately, I was going to aim for a simple piano tune, something drive the documentary going but without sound, I guess you could say it was then calm and easy to watch.

Set Designs

This is the set design of my parent's home, comparing to the one below, it is a lot smaller and cramped. However, the couple I was interviewing would be able to sit on the sofa facing the camera forward. In front of them would be a small coffee table with two cups on, giving the affect that they are comfortable in the position they are in. Behind the camera, there would be me and Sian. Sian would be keeping an eye on the camera whilst I ask the questions to the couple. We had an idea to film the couple at the same time with two cameras but with a small amount of space and the last minute change of area, we didn't the time and the space to do it, which of course was another big shame. But the audio was perfect in the area, a microphone wasn't needed.

Here is the rough set design that was set in my cousin's house. The main reason why we didn't end up filming here was because my uncle was having two meetings on the two days we were going to film.

As you can see, it is more spacious and set out similar to a talk show. I was looking forward to film here as the lighting wouldn't be as dark, so the footage would actually be useable and the fact you could experiment with the camera angles in the room as it is so spacious. In the area as well, the plan was that Sian and I would be filming the couple at the same time but in a different angle so during editing we could jump to each shot of the couple's faces and hands. Overall, it is quite a shame that we didn't film in the room but at least we could save the idea for another time.