Adjustments made during post production

Adjustments made during

post-production

Medicine: Katie Norris

Rough cut to first draft alterations

Rough Cut

First Draft

I found that my footage was very bright and had very

high levels of colour, especially yellows and oranges

which created more of a warm feel to the video. I

didn’t feel this was suitable as it is suppose to be

quite an emotional video, and I wanted the audience

to relate to this and felt the shots were too bright. To

change this, I decided to use a tool called fast colour

and add and adjustment layer to my footage. Using

the colour selector, I was able to make the footage

darker. I applied a slight hint of blue so that the

footage appeared more crisp and cinematic. This

made the shots more detailed. I think this can really

be seen with the shot of my main character when

she wakes up.

Fast colour tool


Rough Cut

First Draft

During filming I forgot to check

whether I could be seen behind the

actress in the mirror. I wanted the

mirror in shot but without me being

seen. This makes the video

unrealistic and would make it loose

its quality. I didn’t want to have to re-

shoot this scene, so I had to use the

crop tool in premier to remove some

of the left side of the shot so that I

could no longer be seen. However I

have left some of the mirror in shot

for continuity. This meant that I

didn’t have to re-shoot this scene,

saving time.

Crop tool


I found that some of my shots

were quite long, so I decided to

cut back on some of them. The

shoe shot is one which I

reduced. I think it is irrelevant for

this scene to be so long as it

would bore the audience and

does not show much in terms of

the narrative other than she is

getting ready to go somewhere.

So this is an example of one of

the shots I reduced. Another

shot I reduced is one of the

character walking to meet her

boyfriend, I reduced the time

she was off screen as this was

also not useful.


To make the video have more

of a variety of cinematic

shots. I added this shot of a

stream just before the main

character meets her

boyfriend. I feel that this is

almost like an establishing

shot to make it clear to the

audience that some time has

passed since the character

left her home and to tell them

there is now going to be a

new location. This shot also

makes the audience relax

due to the stream being very

calm. I used a fade in to add

effect to the establishing shot

and draw the intention in of

the audience before the main

disruption to the narrative

occurs.


To make the main part of

the narrative more

interesting, I varied the

shots used during this

scene. In the rough cut,

this scene is one long

continuous shot in which

we do not fully get to see

the actors facial

expressions or

understand what is

happening. To improve

this, I cut various shots

and placed different shot

types instead to make it

more realistic and allow to

audience to clearly see

what is happening and

what the characters may

be feeling by being able to

see their facial

expressions clearly.

First Draft

Rough Cut


Rough Cut

First Draft

I cut some of this footage out

because I didn’t think the shot

looked right. At certain stages of

this scene, the male actors head

goes in and out of shot and I

thought this downgraded my

work. So instead I decided to

reduce this footage so that it

starts from him walking away.

This looks better as he is fully in

the shot and does not go out of it,

making the video look more

professional.


Rough Cut

First Draft

I decided to alter the ending

by making the right screen

black and white rather than

having both in colour. This is

to influence the positive and

negative decision that could

occur. This makes it clear

that the left side is a good

choice to make and the right

is bad as the use of colour

sets emotion.

First draft to final

I decided to add a performance

based scene in between some of

the narrative. I think this is to make

the video more emotive and look

more like a music video, as before

this was added I felt that my video

was more like a short film than a

music video. I think this also gives

the audience a better perspective of

what the character is feeling

towards the song and this really

brings out the lyrics to the

audience’s attention.


These are all shots that I reduced

screen time on. I felt that they

were a bit long and were not

needed for so long on screen.

This made the continuity flow

better and look more like a music

video.


I added this close up

shot of the alcohol

and medicine to make

it more clear to the

audience what she is

doing during this

scene. I feel a close

up makes the shot

more intense and

gives the audience a

better understanding

of what is happening.

I also made the

ending shots a lot

longer so that the

audience could take

in what was

happening more

easily. This was one

thing that was asked

during my audience

feedback.


The last thing I found

I had to change was

the length of the

song. Originally I had

cropped the length of

the song at the

beginning and end so

that it would fit the

length of footage I

had. When I added

the performance

based shots, this

increased the video

time, and I had to re-

add the music to the

original song without

it being cropped so

that it played during

the length of my

footage.

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Adjustments made during post production