Whilst editing the film, we used a programme called premiere elements. This programme helped us to edit the brightness of the clip, as there were parts were it was to dark on the computer and could not see the image we wanted to create. However we found that making the image brighter and visible made it seem a bit blurry. We brightened the clip by using the properties, such as: contrast, brightness and the saturation. We used different levels of each until we managed to achieve the effect and image we wanted. However we used this to our advantage by making it seem eerie. Also we edited the nature part to make the surroundings seem darker and to make it appear that it was closer to night time, than it actually was when we filmed it. I used the saturation to create a darker and dull effect. We also found that when we edited the saturation it made the character look a lot paler, which is what we wanted the character to look like .
Next we went on to deciding the order of the clips and how we would create the short snaps of each. We did this by using a tool which is able to cut the clip into section, and then we were able to move them around on the programmes storyboard. We tried out a few different positions for most of clips, however we knew that one clip was definitely meant for the end so we did not need to try out different positions for those clips. We then went on to experiment with the different effects we would use which would show the transition form clip to clip. We eventually decided to use one of the dissolving transitions, as we thought it would give the best 'horror' effect and would also add to the roughness that we wanted to get from the camera.
We then went on to adding tittles and who did what into the clip this is when we came to an error of not being able to find the sort of title style we want. Also there seemed to be a problem with adding the titles into certain clips. The problem was that the programme was unable to complete this function as it couldn't read what we were trying to do. This continued not to work over the next couple of weeks, we found that we were unable to add titles on my log in but when we tried to use a different log in we were unable to access the film.
This image is to show the reoccurring problem we had with trying to add the titles to our starting clip. Overall we overcame this problem by putting the clips onto another members computer and started the editing and lighting all over again. When we came to adding the title, we used a font called 'papryus ', we decided on this font as we thought it was the most eerie and the effect of loosing some bits in the font gave it an oldish look.
After we had added the font we went on to adding the music which Mat had help us to create. The music was quite simple to add, as the music plan helped to create all the right timing. We simply just added the music after we imported the media. Then we went on to record the voice of the little girl. We did this by adding a narration to the clip we place this over the music. At the pint of when the girl starts talking we cut the music clip so that the music sound track could be made to appear quieter and so that we were able to hear the voice. We had some trouble recording our voice, this was because we wanted a whisper and was hard to whisper while you could everyone working around us. Therefore we had to find a quieter are and empty room to make the recording. We managed to make the soundtrack quieter at this point by using the properties and making the volume quieter.
Once we had finished the editing we went onto render the disc so that we were able to show it to an audience and get the review we needed, to evaluate our work.




No comments:
Post a Comment