1. The YUV curve we used on almost every shot as it helped
to create a cinematic look to our production by
heightening the light tones and the dark tones. The basic
concept of the YUV curve tool is to create a perfect S
shape which basically increases the brightness and
contrast but is much more precise and effective when
working with moving Image whereas the brightness and
contrast tool is better for a still image. With my own
experience I found that it was so important to match the
colours within each shot so some didn’t appear brighter
than others so this tool was very effective
We used Quick Titler during the production
of our short film which allowed us to create
the credits as well as the texting scene,
furthermore we also used Adobe Photoshop
for the title of our production which we later
inserted into the production. Quick Titler did
the same job as Photoshop which allowed us
to adjust the font, size, colour and create the
rolling text effect making it look more
professional, this appears on most films
therefore we wanted to follow this
convention.
Editing is the one of the most important aspects when creating a film as after shooting
editing basically makes the film as it is important to make the footage string together
fluently. Within editing you can fix the colour, transitions, the type of angle, produce
dynamic conversations and special effects. The editing software that we used was Edius 7
that allowed us to create cinematic elements to our production PROMISE by adjusting the
lighting, colour and sound correction.
When it came to came to colour correction the
main aim was to match the colours within each shot
fluently or to display a certain time of day. Our main
issue was windows, which appeared very bight, and
washed out the shot so using the colour balance
tool allowed us to only darken some parts of the
shot rather than the whole shot, during filming we
did use a bounce board to block light coming
through the window when shooting inside. Another
problem we had was continuity with clothing, in
one shot Sam is wearing a different top to the
pervious one so we increased the cyan tone to
make it appear more blue than green. You can also
2. We also used the ‘time speed’ effect to alter the speed and
it also allows you to reverse them however we did not need to
use that effect. We adjusted the speed by decreasing it from
100 to 60 during the sequence of Ellie and Dave’s argument
in kitchen which allowed us to the close the sequence by
having Dave throw papers on the flower which worked well in
matching the falling rain during the establishing shot of the
school. Therefore we decreased the speed from 100 to 86,
which reduced the speed of the dolly shot of the school as we
had problems using the dolly which resulted in a very slight
pan ultimately reducing the effectiveness of the establishing
shot.
Alongside the basic skills, we also have to add some
effects to make interesting scene transitions etc and
make it more aesthetic and cinematic. The most
used transition we used was Dissolve which allowed
us to have a clean and quite cut between shots
matching the nature of genre. This helped massively
when editing the opening sequence of PROMISE as
we had dissolve shots together making it look like
coats were appearing on the hangers this helped us
avoid the jumpy cuts that are uncomfortable to
watch. Here to left you can see what Edius 7 has to
offer In terms of transitions, during dynamic
One major problem we did encounter during our
editing process was matching the sound levels to
the speech, as we used a recording studio with a
boom microphone the music is actually a lot
louder than the speech within the scenes
therefore we had to play about with the clips and
create the clip first before inserting it into our
production, this allowed us to adjust just the
sound levels the diegetic sound separately from
the non diegetic sound we adjusted the bass and
the temp to avoid the crackly effect that can occur
if you increase the audio.
3. Another method of colour correction that we used
during editing was 3 Way Colour Correction. This
tool allowed us to edit the saturation and contrast
for 3 factors these are; Black balance, Grey balance
and White balance which means that if you
wanted to lighten just the grey tones you can
simply do so by using the contrast tool in that
section. Furthermore you can add a colour filter,
which we only used once during the scene in
which one of actors was wearing the wrong top so
we made it look more blue rather than green
