Wednesday 5th June
This was my first day back after the half-term break, and as I planned I continued working on my edit. As I had already made a simple compilation of the sequence a few weeks beforehand, today was the day in which I started adding the more complicated parts of the editing. Today I focused on the audio aspects of editing as I wanted to ensure nothing sounded too loud/static. For the majority of the short film, we included a lot of the camera audio due the fact that it created the right ambiance that we needed, as it is important to include background sound even if it is quiet, especially because we set our film in the post-apocalyptic future and one particular scene we filmed in a classroom where there were only 3 characters. Therefore, any royalty free classroom ambiance sounds did not work as they included other voices in the audio, which would not portray the aim of our story.
Furthermore, I also ensured that I found Foley sound effects for all the clips that did not have appropriate accompanying sound as it is important to have the most realistic sound effects because this ensures our short film can reach its highest standard if professionalism.
After finding all of the sounds that I wanted to use, I started layering all of the sounds within my edit such as the Foley, with the speech and ambiance sounds. I started to find that the sound started coming together along with the overall short film.
Thursday 6th June
Today, I focused on the colour grading part of my edit. This is an important part of the editing as this can change the whole mood/atmosphere of the short film. I did 3 separate parts of the colour grading, the beginning, middle and end. I did this because I wanted to symbolize the different moods of the short film through the colour and tones. For example, in the beginning, I gave the scenes a blue undertone. However, because the original footage was already quite grainy, I attempted to fix this when grading by sharpening the scenes and adjusting the brightness by making it slightly to darker to make the grain less noticeable. These blue scenes create an almost uncomfortable mood which is what I was aiming to create, as the audience need to know that this film is not going to be a welcoming one.
When the main character begins to use her powers, I gave the scenes purple undertones as purple is usually associated with magic/spells. I wanted to make this evident in the scenes because the audience need to know that this is the significant scene.
For the dream sequence scene in field, I used warm yellow tones as I believe that creates a dreamier atmosphere. I also added a faded effect.
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