question 6

2. Colour correction
Using the colour corrector
tool within final
cut, enabled us to adjust
tones such as whites, mids
blacks and saturation
within the clips. We
decided to go for a
darkish, slightly bluely
tone, to give a cold, sinister Using Final cut
look. This helped enhance
the mood represented in to organise
the shot.
our finished
clips and
Colour corrected did render the
however become
frustrating in final cut
final
as the lack of filters sequence.
meant we couldn’t
create a correction
with really enhanced
colour change. This
meant we lacked
professionalism in
our clips at the
start, where we
made it darker using
a separate colour
correcting Opacity
programme we could With this tool, we could easily fade in and out, crossfade and create a ‘blinking’ like effect in the
have accomplished
clip. This became a useful, successful tool, to create length, and build ups, to slow down certain
a more
interesting, thriller
areas and speed up others. It gave us scope to become more professional in experimenting with
like look. different transitions instead of the typical ‘cut’.

3. Freeze Framing
By freeze framing a certain frame within the clip, allowed me to use the
background of the field (around the scope) and mask out the area I wanted. This
then created a still image around the outside of the scope.
The Wiggler
Effect
Using this useful
tool inside after
effects allowed me
to adjust how much
movement (Sway)
to give on the
masked image. This
gave a realistic
handheld like
feel, without looking
to mechanically
edited.
Using Adobe After Effects CS3 to Opacity
create the title sequence and We balanced the opacity here to get the right amount of darkness coming
sniper scene through in the clip. We didn’t want to create a ‘game like look’, so by lowering
the opacity we could get more brightness coming through.

4. Masking
Originally, we were not happy with a straight overlay of a sniper scope image placed on top of the original clip. So we decided to crop round it to
give a sense of where the sniper was looking. The white area shows where we masked the scope, and faded (Feathered) it in.

5. AUDIO
We gathered our sounds from many different sources such as a complete sound effect design package called (Sound FXs
extreme) and another package which came with Jacks Final Cut Pro X software in which we found hundreds of different
sound effects related to our thriller.

6. Once the sounds were imported we cut the relevant sections and moved the clips to fit the video. Using the Pen tool, we then created fade ins and fade
outs of the audio, lowering the volume in places and enhancing the volume in others. We also took some sounds from the raw footage we shot. By
disconnecting the footage with the audio, we moved sections to other areas of the video which made it sound more interesting and exciting.

7. THE ORGANISATION STAGE
FIRST STAGE OF EDITING THE TITLE SEQUENCE
Firstly, all the clips had to be organised into the relevant places within the timeline. For example first they had to be cut and moved so all
flow as one. At this stage I also twixtored (an external plugin within after effects that allows for advance slow motion settings) Once I set
the key frames I could change what speed I wanted twixtor to be. I also Pre composed some layers so I didn’t have loads of layers which
were all separate instead I put them all in one clip, in affect.

8. ADDING THE TITLES
Wiggler
Key Effect
Frames
Adding titles to the finished video background sequence was experimental. Firstly using the wiggler effect, I could give the titles a slow random
movement or a fast paced movement. This was then refined by the use of the radical blur effects which were key framed at specific points to fit the
relevant movement e.g. low blur slow pace, high blur fast pace. I had to be careful not to over blur areas of text as it could be easily lost, and
unreadable.

9. BEFORE RENDERING TIMELINE
One restriction was I Effects
had to preview my
sequence in the
I used
lowest
quality, meaning I
might have missed
areas of raw
colour, and shape on
some parts of the
image being
displayed.
Just before I began rendering my final title sequence, I made sure all my text layers were complete and refined, and checked the right effect
was added onto each layer. Because of the lack of PC power I was restricted to rendering the whole thing out as one complete clip, instead I
had to render it in three, then put it back together again in Final Cut. This was the only drawback I had with edited in after effects on my
computer.