Friday

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.

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