Post-Production #1

    For our first editing session we wanted to focus on the lighting and sound. Obviously while doing this we were composing and bringing together all the clips so we could get ahead of our work as well. 

    In this film we wanted the color be a very important factor involving the films tone. Lighting is very important in terms of how a film develops, meaning that this could give us a way to add significance to the overall feel of both the outside and inside scene. The very first scene in the opening is outside, which means that the natural lighting of the film is more vibrant than what we want. This means that for this specific scene we want to change the lighting through the Adobe Premiere. Using this software we were able to change and add tints to the film layer creating a cooler less vibrant ambience to the scene. While doing this we experimented with different cool colors like blue and green to see what fit best in terms of the visuals. As everyone in the group discussed, we landed on a blue tint that would adjust the color to a more preferred tone of ours. After settling, we applied this tint to every layer and were successful in creating the vision we had. 

    The audio just like lighting is critical in developing meaning, especially during post-production. We added tense music to add suspense, but to be completely honest I'm not sure if I really like it. Here are where things between the group are getting tricky. As Brennan was editing he did a lot of the work himself, which is perfectly fine, but through this he used audio that me and Vanessa aren't too sure of just yet. Also when editing and looking back at draft pieces we noticed some of the dialogue didn't get picked up well so, we are either going to find a solution within the software or do a voiceover. With this voiceover I'm not sure it would seem natural in terms of what the audience sees so I'm really hoping we are able to fix this issue. 

    Now, that we have these issues with sound, tomorrow me and the group are going to call and see areas that we could improve on, not just from lighting or audio, but also from the editing aspect of things involving shots and timing of cuts. I know this is a not a very lengthy blog post, but I felt it was necessary to talk about the amount of editing we did and also the problems we face as a team, good and bad.