Additional Video Editing

Now that I have posted my first draft of my composition, I am going to talk about some other uses of editing that have influenced the final result.
I have made use throughout the video of using general colour correction, dulling some shots down so that they are not so whited out and have more contrast, as well as adding a slightly deeper mood to the shot. An example of this would be when the actor is walking down the stairs and to the door.. When whe walks in front of the door, a vivid blue is in the windows, so in order to dull this down I reduced the brightness and slightly increased the contrast as well as blocking out a small proportion of te white and dark extremities from the shot so that all of the colours are midrange rather than fully white or black. e.g. rather than having a red block in a part of a shot, its intensity would be brought down and it would look slighly more pink.

Another piece of editing that I had to do to this shot was cut out some (admittedly poor) acting from one of the actors in the shot. To do this I scaled up the shot and then positioned it slightly to the right so as to cut out one of the actors, and then carying on the zoom towards the door as the main character walked outside. I was lucky with this shot as the quality is relatively high, so pixelation did not become a problem after completing the virtual camera movement.

A problem shot which unfortunately I am litterally (and annoyingly) unable to reshoot or fix is the shot where we see the car pull up and the actor get out and stand just off the pavement (not road side) looking down and generally glum.

Still, over all of this editing, the most crucial, and by far the most difficult piece of editing was putting the mask over the mirror. Even now it is not perfect with a gradiented layer being masked around the actor, even with roughly a week of adjusting and correcting, the gradien't was just too difficult to manipulate throughout the shot  as the natural light shining on the wall around the mirror changed as the actor walked past, making the superficial box a little more obvious than is desited.

New Treatment Sheet (+Script)

As I have changed my storyline, here is the new treatment sheet that I have written up, although significantly shorter, there is a reason for this explaind within.

I have not included a script for this new movie opening as there is no diologue, this was not to get out of doing a script, a soundtrack just seemed a lot more appropriate than using the diologue that I already had recorded.

Masking

Within my project it was essential for me to learn how to mask.
The reason for this is rather embarassing as I thought it would be a good idea to video one of my shots oppoite a mirror, so whilst the shot itself was good, the camera man plus camera are also in-shot. In order to correct this i had to match the wall colour with a rectangular mask over the mirror, and then track mask around the actor as she walked down the hall. The overall finnish is a lot better, however i was unable to hold a steady match on the wall as the light intensity on the wall changed when the actor was near and so the shape becomes more distinguishable the later on in the shot it gets. But all in all I would say a great improvement considering my lack of experience with the program (AE), but then again this would not have been necessary if I had got the shot right in the first place.

The mask is particularly obvious in this screenshot, however there is not a lot more that I could have done to correct this mistake. Fortunately at full speed, the mask is barely noticible if you are not looking for it.