For this week’s tasks, we were challenged to edit together the footage we had filmed over the past few weeks for our one minute, non-dialogue short film. Last week, I filmed all of my footage that I needed over the course of a couple of days. Upon returning to college, I reviewed my footage and ensured that I had every piece of footage that I needed before I started editing my film. In order to edit, I used to the system, Avid, which would allow me to cut, add audio, adjust the colour of the videos, as well as using other effects on my video clips. Firstly, I began to edit my first video clip, in which I would need a title so that the viewer is immediately able to recognise what my film is based on. In order to do this, I opened the effects section on Avid and selected ‘Avid Titler’ It is at this point that I inserted the text and adjusted the size, colour, and font to ensure that the title would fit in with the overall theme of the film. After this, I continued to insert video clips into the timeline and cut them using the ‘Mark In’ and ‘Mark Out’ buttons so that the overall film would run smooth. Furthermore, in my film, there is a short moment where I use a stop motion technique through the use of photographs to create the illusion of V.H.S Tapes stacking up in quick time. However, when uploading these images to the timeline, it was clear that the lighting in each was slightly different, therefore did not have the slick effect that I had hoped for. In order to fix this so that the continuity was clearer, I used the colour section on Avid which allowed me to adjust the amount of Exposure on the image. Because I wanted my film to have an overall bright look to fit in with the light-hearted theme, I made sure each images exposure was fairly high, and that all the images were at a similar exposure. After doing this, I was pleased with the outcome as the images now all looked as though they had the same lighting for each, improving the continuity of the scene. I then continued to colour grade each scene so that the bright theme was followed throughout. Towards the end of the scene, I made the decision to cut each clip to a shorter length so that, that particular part of the film felt fast paced, playing on the characters emotions at that time.
I feel that through the tasks this week, I was able to gain some more editing experience, and experience using Avid. This allowed me to gain some more knowledge about how to use Avid and the different features available that can enhance the quality of my film.
After editing my film and exporting it into a file, I then shared it with several people to gather their opinions and asked for them to give me a strength and weakness about my film. This has helped me to reflect on my work and consider any changes that I can make to any future projects.
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