Post-Production: Sound Effects & Extra Ambiance

Throughout our project, particularly when it comes to post-production/editing stages, we will almost definitely come across at least one piece of footage where the sound we captured may not be clear enough or perhaps has someone producing undesirable sounds such as talking in the background or maybe even mic faults that create...

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Post-Production: Importing Our Logo

Importing our company logo sequence into the beginning of our short film was very easy; with a simple click and drag maneuver, we placed it at the very start of our project using Final Cut Pro on a Mac. We also applied a slowly transitioned fade to and from black transition between the logo sequence and opening clip to provide a smooth transition into our film...

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Post-Production: Music Choice for Scene 3 & Argument Opening

During post-production, we had to create two extra pieces of audio to apply and place in to our film. The first was to choice a song for the bus scene of our film and create a headphone effect to this MP3 file. I decided to create a tutorial on how to do so, along with a compilation of songs that we had considered for our short film product. To create...

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Production: Rule of Third

Rule of thirds is another aspect I had previously learnt from my own personal video recording activities that can play a significant one for producing nice quality clips. The rule of thirds system is splitting the visuals into 9 equal squares in a grid shape. I drew a diagram below to explain. The visuals would have this overlays over it during...

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Production: Final Set of Footage (External Shots: Scene 6-7)

By the time December came around, we had to hurry up with filming and get our last shots done before our chosen environments began changing due to seasonal changes. By the time we had gotten to filming, people had already began hanging Christmas lights up, so we had to make sure we hid this time elapse as much as we possibly could. However, it could be argued that you can't...

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Production: Textures

During our shoots, I decided to take some photos of textures that could be used during post-production or even extra tasks such as posters. Textures are used to give an image or film a little more depth and adds additional atmosphere to it. Here are some examples of textures I found on the internet; We took some of our own textures on set though rather than using external...

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Production: Third Set of Footage (External Shots: Scenes 5-6)

The third day of filming involved a lot more travelling, as we would be travelling around via train. We had to create internal footage of the train stations and train, then also external footage of the travels and any other footage that we would need involving the train stations. We had to act fact on these shots because we need the time to look just before evening, so we had to make sure we filmed everything we needed before it got TOO dark. We did however let some of the later filmed clips run into night time as we...

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