Last touches & editing on the film!

Today we have finished editing finally! We needed to touch up on the lighting, brightness and contrast. Because the film is a 'psychological thriller' we needed to make it more doom and gloom, because before the shot were all fairly bright and the film didn't seem to have a mysterious effect.




1.) Opacity - By reducing the opacity it makes the footage more transparent.

2.) Brightness and Contrast  - Makes the footage  brighter/darker less/more colourful to add effect and atmosphere to the scene.

By adding Brightness and Contrast and changing Opacity you click on the footage that you would like to edit and go onto Opacity which originally will be on 100.0% and then using your mouse click on the number and the mouse arrow will change to a horizontal arrow and then slide the mouse left or right to adjust the darkness of the clip. Same with Brightness and Contrast Slide the numbers to change the Brightness and how colourful you want it.

After looking at our footage and there have been some problems with the Brightness and Contrast edits. We have made some of the footage darker and some of them brighter, to make the some scenes look less busy and not too complicated so that the audience won't get the plot or loose interest. So we took the footage from the Video 1 panel on the time line for the performance pieces of Me and Chloe realised she had placed in the Effects Controls the Brightness and Contrast settings twice so she removed both and edited the Opacity instead. She has edited the Opacity on other pieces of Footage so that it didn't look like it was becoming darker and then lighter when it shouldn't do, looking like it was fading in and out.

We all are really pleased with the overall outcome of the film. we feel that the footage is much better and has progressed well. The film has more of a understanding and now is tied up and finished.