1. Adjustments made during
post-production
Medicine: Katie Norris

2. Rough cut to first draft alterations
Rough Cut
First Draft
I found that my footage was very bright and had very
high levels of colour, especially yellows and oranges
which created more of a warm feel to the video. I
didn’t feel this was suitable as it is suppose to be
quite an emotional video, and I wanted the audience
to relate to this and felt the shots were too bright. To
change this, I decided to use a tool called fast colour
and add and adjustment layer to my footage. Using
the colour selector, I was able to make the footage
darker. I applied a slight hint of blue so that the
footage appeared more crisp and cinematic. This
made the shots more detailed. I think this can really
be seen with the shot of my main character when
she wakes up.
Fast colour tool

3. Rough cut to first draft alterations
Rough Cut
First Draft
During filming I forgot to check
whether I could be seen behind the
actress in the mirror. I wanted the
mirror in shot but without me being
seen. This makes the video
unrealistic and would make it loose
its quality. I didn’t want to have to reshoot this scene, so I had to use the
crop tool in premier to remove some
of the left side of the shot so that I
could no longer be seen. However I
have left some of the mirror in shot
for continuity. This meant that I
didn’t have to re-shoot this scene,
saving time.
Crop tool

4. Rough cut to first draft alterations
I found that some of my shots
were quite long, so I decided to
cut back on some of them. The
shoe shot is one which I
reduced. I think it is irrelevant for
this scene to be so long as it
would bore the audience and
does not show much in terms of
the narrative other than she is
getting ready to go somewhere.
So this is an example of one of
the shots I reduced. Another
shot I reduced is one of the
character walking to meet her
boyfriend, I reduced the time
she was off screen as this was
also not useful.

5. Rough cut to first draft alterations
To make the video have more
of a variety of cinematic
shots. I added this shot of a
stream just before the main
character meets her
boyfriend. I feel that this is
almost like an establishing
shot to make it clear to the
audience that some time has
passed since the character
left her home and to tell them
there is now going to be a
new location. This shot also
makes the audience relax
due to the stream being very
calm. I used a fade in to add
effect to the establishing shot
and draw the intention in of
the audience before the main
disruption to the narrative
occurs.

6. Rough cut to first draft alterations
Rough Cut
First Draft
To make the main part of
the narrative more
interesting, I varied the
shots used during this
scene. In the rough cut,
this scene is one long
continuous shot in which
we do not fully get to see
the actors facial
expressions or
understand what is
happening. To improve
this, I cut various shots
and placed different shot
types instead to make it
more realistic and allow to
audience to clearly see
what is happening and
what the characters may
be feeling by being able to
see their facial
expressions clearly.

7. Rough cut to first draft alterations
Rough Cut
First Draft
I cut some of this footage out
because I didn’t think the shot
looked right. At certain stages of
this scene, the male actors head
goes in and out of shot and I
thought this downgraded my
work. So instead I decided to
reduce this footage so that it
starts from him walking away.
This looks better as he is fully in
the shot and does not go out of it,
making the video look more
professional.

8. Rough cut to first draft alterations
Rough Cut
First Draft
I decided to alter the ending
by making the right screen
black and white rather than
having both in colour. This is
to influence the positive and
negative decision that could
occur. This makes it clear
that the left side is a good
choice to make and the right
is bad as the use of colour
sets emotion.

9. First draft to final
I decided to add a performance
based scene in between some of
the narrative. I think this is to make
the video more emotive and look
more like a music video, as before
this was added I felt that my video
was more like a short film than a
music video. I think this also gives
the audience a better perspective of
what the character is feeling
towards the song and this really
brings out the lyrics to the
audience’s attention.

10. First draft to final
These are all shots that I reduced
screen time on. I felt that they
were a bit long and were not
needed for so long on screen.
This made the continuity flow
better and look more like a music
video.

11. First draft to final
I added this close up
shot of the alcohol
and medicine to make
it more clear to the
audience what she is
doing during this
scene. I feel a close
up makes the shot
more intense and
gives the audience a
better understanding
of what is happening.
I also made the
ending shots a lot
longer so that the
audience could take
in what was
happening more
easily. This was one
thing that was asked
during my audience
feedback.

12. First draft to final
The last thing I found
I had to change was
the length of the
song. Originally I had
cropped the length of
the song at the
beginning and end so
that it would fit the
length of footage I
had. When I added
the performance
based shots, this
increased the video
time, and I had to readd the music to the
original song without
it being cropped so
that it played during
the length of my
footage.