Post Production

Before hand we designed a brainstorm

Post production required us to do the following:

• Continuity Editing
• Voice recording
• Rendering

Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing is a system of cutting used to maintain continuous shots and clear narrative. Continuity editing follows a set of rules.

These rules will be explained

A long shot or extreme long shot will be your establishing shot, this sets the scene and spartial relations between important figures.

Two shots edited together that alternate characters typically in a conversation situation is called Shot/Reverse shot. Usually characters in one frame look left, and in the next look right.

A Shot-reverse-shot may not be filmed in the correct order but will be edited together afterwards. However you must ensure that the right amount of shots are filmed to make the shot-reverse-shot work.

If you are shooting two characters talking to each other, you need to film a master shot of both characters, and then a close up on one character. Then another showing the other character.

There is a 180 degree you must abide, this means the angle between any two consecutive shots should not exceed 180 degrees, in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots

The 180 degree rule applies for all TV and Film Production. It's important not to cross the 'line of vision' between two characters. Otherwise the viewer may not be able to make sense of the scene

Another rule is the 30 degree rule this is the angle between any two consecutive shots should not be less than 30 degrees. 

Crosscutting is an editing technique between shots occurring simultaneously in two or more different location. A cut between two shots that places two different framing of the same action next to each other, making it seem uninterrupted.

Eye-line match is a cut between two shots, this will show one person looking in one direction and the shot after should show what they are looking at.

Re-establishing shot is a shot that returns to a view of a space or location after a series of close up.

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Voice recording

We chose to use voice overs for our work, for this we had to plan our script as we planned our storyboards. 

We then used a shotgun mic in a room with no re-verb to record our voice-over  once we had done this we then edited it into our film before we rendered. 

We managed to do this quite well, as well as edit it in fine.

Rendering

For the render with put it within a QuickTime codec and used H.264 to render it out, this is the standard for web and also it allows the smallest file size making it effective for the web.

Once rendered we ended up with our final piece

Here is some screenshots of the editing process

Within this shot we as using match editing, we matched all the shots we had to create a shorter sort of clip whilst keeping the narrative.

We started adding the sound, we first made sure we had enough sound to fit the whole video, we did this quite well and managed with just enough to sound however there is a big gap which we couldn't rectify.

Whilst match editing we noticed we needed to add some text into the video we did this through premier, to do this is fairly simple you just right click within the project menu and click new then title, you then get a screen pop up and you just type what you want into it.

This shot was when we was sound matching the video to the audio files, once we had decided on what we liked best we kept it that way.

When we had completed everything adding all sound into the clip, we notice that there was a massive gap within sound at one point I didn't really know what to do here, so we decided that adding a song behind the track would be ideal.