Construction 6: Reflections on Edit week 2

This week was a finalization of the whole process therefore we touched up on a lot of things we'd done constructed beforehand, like titles, voice-overs, grading all our shots and altering our sound-scape so they match the action in each shot appearance and disappearance of titles. We also added more transitions so that cuts aren't too sudden.

Grading technique used on 
'She's the man'-Our influence on
 how we graded our shots

Effects of grading on some of 
our shots using a split screen 
view- Before on the right, After 
effects on the left

Grading is a really intricate piece of work and took the longest amount of time because you neither want the hue/balance/contrast/saturation on a shot be too much that it starts to connote an abstract feel to the sequence or too little that it the shot looks dull and lacking realism. With grading, especially for this type of genre where the mood is usually light (due to it being a comedy) it needs to be bright and full of colour.
We didn't leave much time in this week to grade, if we had more time we wouldn't have rushed the process so much and it may have turned out better.

Three way-colour corrector on
Adobe Premier Pro that we used to grade

Me and Ela at the Mac, choosing
fonts for our titles

How we finalized and edited our
titles using 'Typewriter'

 We wanted our font to signify the kind of happy-go-lucky attitude behind our film's storyline. Therefore we chose a simple font, called 'Brain Flower', available to us from the software 'Typewriter'.

Sample of our chosen font

Me working on our Voice over

Voice-over:
We decided to get Amy Bauco, who also acted as our 'Crying Girl' in the corridor scene, to speak as the mum. It needed to be a voice-over since the mum is not to be in any of the routine scene shots, but in the storyline of the opening is shouting from downstairs to wake up Arthur. When recording into the microphone, instead of speaking from 30 cm like one is meant to, we had Amy stand 2 metres away from the microphone so she would be forced to shout and make the voicoever sound more realistic when played simultaneously with the first shot of Arthur waking up.