Fiction Adaptation: Editing

I started to do a rough cut of my shots, to see if there was any I had to re-do/add in, after each day of shooting. I started to get a bit worried as I only had 1:30 of clips after filming on day 2. I decided to think if there were any shots, that I needed to re-do/final shots I needed.

As most of my shots were done hand held at the last minute, most of them were a bit shaky. I was able to stabilise most of these shots on FCP, by going onto the video settings and clicking on stabilisation.

There's a scene where the poem mentions different colours, for this particular part I wanted to make it look like you could see the colours yourself from the character perspective. I was able to change the POV shots to the colours I wanted, however the colours had made the footage look grainy. 

I looked on the effects to see if there was one that could help with the graininess of the footage and I cam across 'Gaussian' which is one of the blur effects that are on FCP. After adding this effect, the footage didn't have the grain anymore.

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After

 

For most of my shots I cropped them, as they weren't framed that well. Sometimes when cropping footage, it goes grainy, because it has had to zoom in to crop. Luckily with most of my clips, I only cropped a little bit off, so my footage wasn't effected from grain.

There's a clip where my main character is falling and hits the floor. I noticed that because the clip was short, it went too quickly to see that the main character had actually fallen. I decided to slow the clip down to see if it made a difference. By slowing the clip down made a huge difference, it also makes this scene look more dramatic.