What I achieved during the lesson:
- Uploading my anamatic onto blog! I have been meaning to do this for a while, but as we have missed so many lessons it kept slipping my mind. We composed the anamatic on Adobe Premier, we were able to add the song to the timeline. When then exported it into a Windows Media Player file so it was compatible with blogger.
- Uploading A2 Production Practice onto my blog! This was the small scale prelimary excercise that we carried out at the end of year 12. We went to knebworth house and in small groups practiced lip-synching and capturing interesting shots; I wanted to add this as evidence of our practicing, so you can find that under the title 'A2 Practice Production'.
Editing
As mentioned previously, we decided to try and do a bit of editing this lesson to make sure we do not fall behing schedule even more. However, as an hour of lesson was already gone we were aware that we wasn't going to achieve much so we only planned to focus on the series of four very short flashbacks at the beginning of the video before the music even starts. Here's how we did it:
1. Firstly, we seperated the footage of that particular section from the rest on the timeline so we were able to look more closely at it.
2. Next, we then started by roughly cutting out shots that were no use (these included shots that didn't work and bloopers).
3. Once we had finecombed these shots, we then started to reduce them down as they are only meant to last for about a second. Initially, we had trouble cutting it down because we kept making it too long.
4. After many attempts of reducing the lengths of each shot, we managed to perfectly time them to the timing that we had originally wanted (approximatley one second each).
5. Then, using the effects tool we highligted our footage and dragged the black & white effect onto it, so that our footage would now appear this way (as we want our flashbacks to be in black and white).
6. I then had an idea about adding a white dip between every shot for a dramatic effect; so we dragged on the white dip effect individually to each box, and shortened them down. We played around with how long we thought it should last, but in the end we decided as a group that it had more of an impact when it was extremely short and snappy (which Mrs Allison then went on to refer as 'tight' editing).
The Result
Sophie, Charlotte and I were extremley pleased with the result of this editing. We managed to achieve the exact look that we were going for and it actually worked out exactly how we planned. We all played a fair part in the editing process, and contributed euqally to achieve a good result. We had initial worries that we would not be able to achieve the desired effect, due to difficulty of cutting down the lengths of the shots so much (we weren't sure if it would make sense to our audience). However, we found that when the sequence was finished that it was clear enough for the audience to understand its purpose so we were very happy with the result!
Influence from Previous Production
As mentioned previously, today when editing we used the white dip effect. This was no fluke, I was having a conversation with a class mate about last years main production when I remembered that we had used this previously. Here are two screen grabs that show when the white dip is happening (they do not show the proper effect, but these are the most specific screen grabs I could get!:
Although these are two extremely different productions, in a sense we have used the white dip for a similar reason. In both productions they are being used as a seperation device to make the cut between each shot more of a friendly transition. It is especially useful in this current production, is it really emphasizes the fact that Joe has been with 4 other girls at seperate times. I think this simple edit is so effective as it just helps the audience to understand the concept of timing, and that it is flashbacks that are happening.
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