We finally had all of the footage and resources we needed to create our short film. We began to import the footage into Final Cut Pro, on a Mac, and get to work with editing our footage together.
We'd first start off by creating a basic version that literally just contained all the clips we wanted to use with no edits, clipping or extreme manipulation. It purely showed a very, very basic draft version of our video that had no filters or transition effects or sound ambience applied to it, providing only raw footage and little slicing and cutting of clips.
You can see the first half of this basic test film, here:
Below here are a few screenshots we took during the post production of our film.
These two screenshots below show two sections of the film where filters were applied to dramatically change the appearance of some clips.
This first clip is from the first scene, where our character Jack is sitting alone in front room, listening to his parents arguing. When we imported our footage for this scene, we found that the scene was very brightly lit and had a very warm feel to it. This was not what we had pictured or desired for our film, as we wanted quite a sad, dull feeling to our film. We also felt the warmth from the lighting enhanced the houses' appearance and made it look like an optimistic, loving environment; which is clearly not the case from the diegetic sound we can hear in the clip.
So, to fix this clip to how we liked and felt suited the idea of social realism more, we applied cooling effects and various colour manipulation tools that made shadows darker, warm colours cooler and made the contrast a little bolder to look a little nicer.
This clip was a little more complex to create, as we needed quite a few filters applied to the clip to create the desired effect. We wanted this one clip to look like it was recording via a security camera on the bus. We didn't want this to mean anything important or dramatic, such as our protagonist being watched or in trouble etc, we just wanted this one little scene to show a little creativity in our production and give an interesting feature to the film.
As we couldn't ask the bus driver or company for the security tape for our film due to security reasons, we had to record the scene ourselves. We placed our camera as close to the real security camera as we could, and aimed it exactly where the real camera would point; down the stairs. This filters applied to clip included noise and 'bad TV' filters, along with colour manipulation tools. I personally felt the filters all looked very accurate and interesting on this clip, creating a piece of authentic looking security footage.
We will soon release the first draft of our short film...
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