POST-PRODUCTION
SOFTWARE: Adobe premiere Pro
The use of the software Adobe Premier Pro was highly significant to our project as it allowed us to put all the footage we filmed together to create a seamless finished product. Firstly we used it to create the picture cut. We began by looking through the rushes and bins and selecting each clip which would then play in the top left section of the screen. We made sure to label all the shots that we thought we might use in our sequence. After this, we narrowed down the selection once again and then dragged clips that we liked from the top left part of the screen into the bottom right section of the screen which contained the timeline. We then trimmed down all the clips to the appropriate size. We did this by setting in and out points for each of the clips we filmed. The in point in the frame at which the shot begins and the out point is where the shot ends. This was a useful tool as we filmed many clips which were longer than needed. We used the keys on the iMac Command and S to save our work as we went along so that none of our progress would be lost. Then, we were able to add titles and alter the font. We used the font Bodoni. The guidelines helped us to position the text in the frame.
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The blocks of audio that went along with each clip appeared in boxes underneath. We then used the volume fader in the audio track mixer to decrease the volume in certain parts but kept some of the sound of the original audio . We wanted a classical soundtrack and so we began searching through pieces by Bach on Spotify. We created a short list of pieces that we liked before deciding on the final one which was Bach’s Cello Suite No.5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: V.Gavottes I and II”. We imported this piece into Adobe Premier Pro and we placed the audio in its own section. We then added a record player sound effect to make the audio sound crackly so that it would sound as if it was playing from out of the man’s record player. We then added our own foley sound at the end of the sequence which Meadow recorded of herself gurgling water on her iPhone. We imported the files onto the iMac and then out them at then dragged them to the very end of the audio on the timeline. Matthew then used his own software to create a tonal shift in the soundtrack which was also imported and we used the fading tool to create a seamless transition between diegetic fizzing sound we recorded on the day, and the the eerie bass soundtrack.
We then used the colour grading tools to perfect the visual appearance of our opening sequence. We changed the exposure on the shot of the berries laid out on the table to 0.7, as the man looks at the chopping board.
The software also allowed us to adjust and crop shots. There was a shot in which we wanted to create the impression that the woman was tied to the chair with a belt
HARDWARE: iMac computer and Lexar Pro Memory card
We accessed the editing software Adobe Premiere Pro on an iMac computer. They were many shortcuts which we were able to perform using the keys on the keypad. We imported the footage we filmed on the shoot day onto the iMac from a Lexar Pro Memory Card.
ONLINE: YouTube
We then used YouTube to upload the opening sequence onto the Hurtwood House Media YouTube channel.
