2. Colour Adjustments – Darkening
The Footage
Because I filmed all of the outside
footage for my film outside in the
daylight, I needed to darken the
footage for the purpose of my video –
for which I would have filmed at night
if I had the correct lighting
equipment. To darken the image first I
added a day into night filter which
mostly worked in darkening the
image however to make the picture
look like it was really during the night I
changed the colour levels, reducing
the amount of green and red and
either leaving or increasing the
amount of blue within the image, thus
creating a convincing recreation of
night footage
3. Colour Adjustments – Adding
The Red Filter
To Get the desired effect from
my video, which was that I
wanted to make some bits
with the shade look more
intense and dark, I changed
around the settings with the
contrast, saturation and hue,
I originally for the footage I
had shot with the red light
bulb used the preset setting
on imovie called hard light
which made the whole
image darker and seem less
like reality.
4. Colour Adjustments – Adding The
Alterations during the guitar solo and
intro
For the solo I wanted to use a
different colour filter that I had
not used or had only used a
few times during the film,
therefore I used an imove
preset setting called “Sci-Fi”,
which adds a bleached/
slightly green tinted filter to
the film, which created the
effect I had in mind
5. Filming/ Editing – “Strobe” light
scenes
In filming the strobe light scene,
rather than filming and
switching the lights on and off
I decided instead to film the
footage with the lights on and
then film 20 seconds of
darkness, by doing this I was
able to dictate where light
flashes on and off, this proved
to much easier than trying to
time the lights properly and to
synchronise my movements
with the lights.
6. Colour Adjustments – Adding Light
For several of the scenes that I
filmed inside in the dark were
so dark that it was impossible
to make out the activity within
the footage, therefore I set
about once again changing
around the colour, saturation
settings in order to make the
activity within the footage
visible. First I increased the
brightness, contrast and the
saturation slightly, however
this proved to be to light, it
looked bleached and artificial
so I then on top of my initial
alterations added an I movie
preset “day into night” to
darken the footage slightly,
which worked.
