Editing part 2 post production of Harlem Sunset

Editing

 During the next stage of editing we went back through the editing, in order to improve our fade to colour transition.

We added a clip on the end and deleted them, which left us with this blank frame, and I used blade to split it so I could move the two parts.    

 

• When I had moved one piece between these two transitions (as seen above)but I stretched the blank frame in order to trim it later in case the blank frame was too short. Which it was. This was so the transition became lengthened, giving it a cleaner finish than the last time I left it.  

• When we reviewed the clips where I had put the transitions I concluded that there wasn't enough emphasis on the collision of the shot of the shoe and the 'detective'. As a result using a YouTube converter that Xena had found, she was able to find non-copyrighted 'boom sounds' on a separate Mac. As a group we decided on the sound appropriate sound to use, and she was able to email the link to me in order for me to input it into the converter.    

• Later on after I had the 'boom sound' in place, the scene had looked good, however the non-diegetic sound had diminished the effect of the rest of the (climatic) scene and didn't do the rest of the scene justice with just one 'boom sound'. As a result I added three more, after every fade to colour transition and also at the end. 

• Once I added the 'boom sound' I noticed that they seemed out of place with our other sullen, slow paced, non-diegetic soundtrack. Using the YouTube converter we found suspense music, which the whole group had decided on and layered this onto the existing music track to build suspense once the protagonist (femme fatale) appears for the first time in the narrative.       

• To make sure that everything was in order I reviewed the footage with the blinking effects however I thought it seemed illogical to show the close up of the detective's face, with his eyes struggling to open, before the low angled shot of the protagonist. With this in mind I moved the clip of the close up shot after the low angled shot and was satisfied with it. 

After I had finished adding the sounds and effects to the last scene, this was the outcome of the whole opening. 

With the sound and the refined editing of the blinking effects, the scene had smoother transitions to make the blinking effects more realistic, and the sound added suspense which will lead up to the dramatic reveal of the true protagonist and narrator at the end.     

Editing post production of Harlem Sunset

Editing

Our first editing session with the group consisted of group contribution, and we during this we all contributed to the editing equally and no one was really taking the lead.

 

 On the other hand, I was the second to edit the footage that we had taken.

 

• In the beginning I started cropping and trimming the clips as we'd just ordered the clips in chronological order, and some of cropping and trimming had already been done, but I just finished it off so all the shots were conforming to the story board so the continuity wasn't disturbed.    



 

 

 

 

• After Hazel had edited in the blinking effects for our "revelation" scene where the main villain (femme fatale) is revealed. We realised that this clip had been too long and didn't have intervals of black, so the fade to colour transition happened too quickly. As the clips were too long we had to delete a few shots and trim them.

• Once I had dealt with the blinking effects I added a quick transition of fade to colour, between a shot of the suitcase on the floor wide open and the detective on the floor and then the close up to his face, this enabled us to smoothen transition between shots so it wasn't so sudden yet represented the detective's mind going in and out of consciousness.

• At first I had trouble adjusting the speed of the transition as I thought it happened too fast but made each frame too short.I realised I had to add the same shot twice over, so the transition could happen the speed it was going at without taking up frame time of the detective on the floor.       

During this editing session I was starting to get a better feel of final cut pro, and gradually began to explore the program, this led to being able to navigate my way through the software with ease and by the end I was became more confident using the program.