Editing and everything else that happened
since my last post.

As you can tell the editing process is probably the most important and also the most time consuming process of this whole media project. I used two different editing softwares, both by Adobe of course. The first one was Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, which I used to put all my clips together and include the music; so I basically used this program to do all the “easier” editing, such as shortening clips, putting them in the right place and adding video transitions such as dissolves, which I used a lot in this video. I also used this program to add colour correction, turn down the saturation and brightness in the video. As I said before it was a lot easier to do the easy editing with this program because After Effects would have taken A LOT longer. The colour correction played such a big part in this video because without all the effects the video looks quite terrible. Here is a screen shot of a clip with all the effects on and then a screenshot of the same clip without all the effects there.

  

As you can see the video looks quite amateur and quite dull without the effects on board.

We changed quite a few components of the video during the editing process. One of my friend’s Ayush advised me to change the font that displays all the cast, because the font I used earlier didn’t work and made the video look very amateur; so I took his advice and change it to  the “Adobe Arabic” font. Another thing we changed in the editing process is the music. The first piece of music we chose was "The Bridge Of Khazad Dum" from The Lord Of The Rings. I edited the video with the music, so the music and the video worked very, very well together; the music and the video synced in, but unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to use copyrighted music. I bought the pro scores by video co-pilot, so I used two pieces of music from that called “ Never Again” and “Sunrise”. Another Interesting thing I want to mention is that the seagull and the wave noises is actually a separate audio clip that was put in through editing, to give it a mood of an area around the sea. This worked really well with the original music because it gave it a very inspirational feel to it. I really wish we could have used "The Bridge Of Khazad Dum" for our final edit.

The second program I used was “Adobe after effects CS6”. I used this for our movie title and our production companies opening sequence (EdgeClub Media). This program is used to create visual effects and special effects. This program is a lot harder to use, compared to Premiere Pro. This program is capable of doing a lot, but the only problem is it takes HOURS to render and it isn’t exactly an editing program; I’d call it a special effects program. Again both of our intros took at least 2 hours to finish and they include Optical flares, colour correction and a long list on other effects. I used a video clip of clouds in our production company intro to create quite an attractive scene going on while a dazzling logo comes in. Our time did pay off at the end, because the title and the production company logo is one of the best factors of our video.

We have changed only a few things in our rough edits and our final edit. This includes

• ·        Changing the soundtrack
• ·        Changing the timing of when our movie title comes in, because it looked like a trailer rather than a movie intro.
• ·        Changing 1 or 2 layout of the clips, to fit in with the timing

These changes might not seem like a lot, but it does change the mood to the video; especially the soundtrack.

At the end looking back at the editing, I would say it was actually quite a good and enjoyable process. Even though it took hours and hours of work, I would still say spending all that time on the editing was worth it because we were basically perfecting the video. I would say our video is the best it could be at the moment.

Unless Johnny Depp and Henry Cavill wants to come over and Starr in our movie; I don’t think we are going to make any changes.