Meeting 4/3/14

Today we could not add any more film as we are waiting till Friday to film out final scene of the video. So today we decided it was important to do the colourisation of our opening scene, we where unsure on how we will create the transition between the sepia tone in the housewife shoot and the brightness of the London shoot. We decided to experiment with the colourisation by reducing the saturation on the beat of the music and the pace of body movements, however when watching it back we realised that the transition was clumsy and simply looked like the lighting had changed. We have to review this again when we next edit.

Editing - 25/02/14

Today we uploaded the footage we reshot of the 1950s housewife opening. We are a lot happier with this footage that we were with the original, it looks more professional as well as the fact that it allowed up to develop the opening a bit more than we had. We made several improvements to the shoot and made sure that we wouldn't have to reshot it again. We now have a great amount of shots to work with.

Improvements

• Change to Katy's outfit - No cardigan 
• Bigger cake to have more of an impact when it hits
• Change to the Radio - More old fashion looking to suit the time period 
• Added dialogue to make the opening easier to understand 
• Change to Taran's outfit - More formal

The only issue is it may make the opening longer than we had anticipate and this could potentially be an issue.

Meeting 14/2/14

In today's lesson we decided to incorporate something that we hadn't seen or attempted to do before, making frames of different stages of a scene and colourising two contrasting colours per frame. We found it difficult to choose two colours that went together and complimented each other without making it look unclear or amateur. What we also found difficult with this technique was measuring the frame so that it they are parallel to one another, the software could not give us a mathematical estimation of where the frames needed to be so we had to branch out and use a ruler, the process was very tricky.

Colourisation

Today we worked on the colouring of certain clips. We want our video to be very bright and vivid. We played around with two colours in one shot and this is the outcome.  It took us quite a while to find colours that complemented each other and didn't lose the focus of the shot. We are very pleased with the way it looks and it had kept the video in the pop genre.

Editing

Colourisation

Today we started to edit the colours on the clips to make them stand out more and be more visually interesting. We played around with the saturation to make the colours more vivid, however this made the artist skin tone slightly orange. We continued experimenting with the colours using the three-way colour correction tool until we settled upon what we thought looked natural but still bold and bright.
Here is an example of the difference the colourisation has made so far. The first video being the original footage and the second being the edited footage. Overall I am pleased with the difference this has made to the footage however I think we could still work to further enhance the colours, especially in scenes such as the skate park to make the graffiti far more vivid than it already is.

28/01/14

In today's lesson we continued our editing. So far we have edited up to the first chorus for our song. Editing is going really well, when an issue arises we all talk it through and decide as a group what to do. One of our main issues at the moment is trying to decide where to put the number scenes. We wanted to use them to do a countdown to the paint party, but we weren't sure if they should all go together or separately between different lip-singing shots. We thought that the clips should go together as it would make more sense that way. The next decision was whether these should go building up to the first chorus or the second. We decided that the first one should be used for more London shots and then build up the numbers for the second. If this doesn't look right when we have added in our paint-party shots that we can always move things around.

Progress

Yesterday we started editing our footage. We started by editing together the opening scene, however there were some issues with this as some of the shots weren't the right frame or lacked continuity so we are considering refilming this scene. But for now we've just edited together what we have in order to get a vague visual representation of out ideas.