Reflection Film Post-Producti

Editing in Post-Production 

Editing the footage was an area of interest for this particular film as we were developing ideas because I wanted to see how I could translate the story through different cuts and sequence the of footage. When importing the clips into Premiere pro I immediately organised the scenes into various folders to keep a constant work flow that would not confuse me.

I liked the fact i was able to experiment with different styles of how to present the film and found myself increasingly going back over areas that i thought would be used for the final screening. Which was good in terms of teaching myself to always look at different ways to put in together, it was almost like building blocks always coming up with new ways to re-invent. 

When it came the opening scene after speaking with leah and her review on it she suggested that the first few minutes of it weren't really necessary and in fact just use selected short parts from it. Which then when discussing it over with the group came the a decision of cut the begining into the sleeping scene to create some sort of dream scene.

 
Originally when i started the editing the dream scene all i had done was cut up the clips that i wanted into flashback shorts  and positioned them sleeping footage. To create the effect i tried to find so tutorials on youtube but wasnt very successful in that area due to that lack of, so i just looked at different premiere videos and and types of effects on hand and went on to experimenting with what looks good and asking myself if it fits the scenario well. I also found out away to apply my effects to a large quantity of footage without applying it to each one separately, this was called an 'Adjustment Layer' which is where i placed the effects.

The brown clips are the cut flashbacks

Effects

 

Reflection Film Evaluation 'The Recovery'

Film Screening Evaluation

This afternoon the group screened our Reflection film 'The Recovery' which didn't go according plan in terms of the the of the structure of the film and the final edit which had slight audio problems. The feedback which was given and needed I understood why certain areas of the film where questioned on and think the original idea and thought processes we discussed as a group had the potential to become something unique, but was just unable to deliver certain sections. 

As a group I believe we worked good alongside each other and many ideas were constantly being discussed and explored into. We all brought different ideas to the film and managed to merge them into areas of selected scenes. The area we really should have thought about was not so much the narrative area of the film but instead, visual to help showcase the characters emotion and scenes of confusion. As being a very visual person myself am a bit disappointed with myself that i did not show more example of how we could visually deliver certain images and shots to make the film seem more appealing and understandable from the audience point of view. The reason behind the working on the film is its sole purpose was to be visually creative which i felt I managed to create well in the last group project i worked on with the flower store. 

One group in particular which used a large amount of different shots and locations was Tori's Group which explored the area of emotion through an object, maybe we should have used and explored our most effective shots that were necessary in telling the story better. 

Besides not achieving our initial projection to the visual standard we wanted the learning experience will definitely be taken into consideration next time the when developing this type of film. Especially spending more time on more than just one type of scenario and explore a few other to see which one would suit best for the final product.            

Time Art Final Product

Illusion of Time 

Final Draft  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Q1gpzeIx0
Unable to video link it from youtube to my blog

Experimental Sound Final Product

 Final Sound 
Fallen Angel 

Originally When i first saw this image it made me feel uneased about how i would approach it because I had an impression of what i think i should sound like. I was planning to use types of sounds that made you feel uncomfortable whilst listening to it, but after exploring the artist himself Jean Michel Basquiat and looking into his type of personality he seems from my point of view to be a relaxed calm individual  and so decided to create the piece around his stature and from the point of view as if he was creating the piece. After listening back to it there are a few things that i would of liked to incorporate further just to fill out certain parts to make it stronger as a whole. One area that I think could have been improved was the use of the brush strokes, I could have represented them in a better way to showcase how the wild brush strokes relate to the image itself.

Other areas of the image look like it has been spray painted and in one area of my work I incorporated a small part of it. Now i am wish i did and mix of the two different sounds from the paint brush and the spray can and chop different sections up.
           

Experimental Sound [3]

Foley and Roland Recordings 

The studio was a good way to retrieve and experiment with sound and the different objects to help represent that. Some of the tools I used was a paint brush, paper, pot with water inside and tea cloth. 

The idea behind my peace originally was to create the types of sounds an angel would make or its environment surroundings, but later had the idea of creating the atmosphere of the artist creating the picture himself. I didn't know if using the paintbrush and water pot would create the effect i was looking for, but after listening to it back I was really pleased with the outcome. 

Some of the tools i tried out

The Rowland Recorder was useful throughout the making of my composition due to the fact that during mixing my sounds i kept on coming up with new ideas that I  wanted to include. The majority of my sounds sound that you can hear are from the rowland recorder.    

Paint Pot mixing

Time Art [2]

Illusion of Time 

When it came to getting down and developing my own idea within AE I did come across a lot of problems it was mainly to do with switching between screens and keeping track of the last point to start off from in the next screen. I think it was the constant switching between compositions that was confusing me whilst working on it, so i decided to put them into folders switch was still quite confusing and took me a while to adjust. Eventually i managed to work my way around and position my video sequences in the right order.

Without the three screen composition I probably would of struggled finding a way to view my footage next to each other, along with finding the right timing for the next footage to enter the screen. If come across some similar type of project like this again i will definitely use it to work alongside. 

Exporting the video was once more another area that became a setback due to forgetting that i had to export the three screen separately, instead once I foolishly believed I had completed the task I instead exported the three screen composition, after looking over the assignment sheet again to check everything was in order. 

 Because of this i then had to go over and the reversed segment of my video and adjust the layers separately and delete the pre composed layer in the three screen that i cut and reversed.

Reversed layer

Adjusted reverse layers that i had to apply to each separate three screens

 

My experience in using Ae has encouraged me more to explore different areas of after effects and what particular aspect would interest me, at the moment i would really like to continue looking into motion tracking and developing my skills within that area. There are areas that i would like to change about my video, one being adding a camera track to the spotlight effect i had over the footage, just to see if it could of had a better outlook to the piece. 

Time Art [1]

Time Art work in After Effects

My first experience using after effects was eye opening, previous i attempted to use after effects in one of my projects in collage and found certain areas difficult and unclear so i did not really continue using it from that point on. But yet again the after effect tutorials helped me out a lot when it came to working my way around its interface and explaining what certain functions did. I explored two different tutorials that I thought would help me out, which was 'After Effects CS6 Essential Training with Ian Robinson'
and 'Mograph Techniques: Retiming and Tracking Footage with Ian Robinson'. 

Theses were some of the tutorials I looked into the ones that were really useful was tracking the footage I learnt that you can't really get a perfect track without making some adjustments of your own, am hoping to continue off from where i last left off some of the exercise develop in difficulty as you carry on through. One area that caught my interest as well was using the internal software Mocha AE to track which was an interesting experience in terms of switching between both. 

 The after effect Essential Training was a good way to work my way into what i was using to help transition into my own project. 

Mocha

Reflection Photography [6] (Experimental Pictures)

Experimental Pictures 

Map

CD Case 

This was one of the objects that decided not to go with due to one of the issue involving the reflection of the CD case and all so the placement within the image i was unsure about.

Playing Cards

Newspaper

E-Mail

Reflection Photography [5]

The Process 

My ideas originally came from the idea of exploring old and new and how they have developed through time which is where i found a lot of photos that used old photos and then returned to the location and captured an image with a past and present, for example the picture below. Although I thought this was a good idea and at the time was considering it, i knew it could become a difficult area to approach so kept it in mind to have a reasonable outlook on other areas. 

The actual process in developing my photos was not too difficult to approach once I understood how i wanted it laid out in an image. The main area of the image i wanted to emphasis was the difference between old and new hence why i used the black and white contrast between the two. I performed this by masking out the inside screen of the phone and inverse selecting it and applying the black and white effect whilst positioning the separate image that would go on top of the screen. 

If you look carefully you can see the selection lines

This was the image i print screened off my phone and positioned on top of the original image, this process just involved adjusting the corners around the edge, feathering the sides and moving around the contrast and brightness.


The one image out of three which was edited differently compared to the others was the map photo, this particular image required a lot of resizing to help it stay in line with the actual map around it due to the moving of the camera whilst take each individual shot

As you can see from this image i had to adjust the layer underneath to match the front layer which was a problem because i didn't use a tripod which i soon realised would have made the image a lot more precis and easier to work with.    

Reflection Roise feedback

Feedback

A few days ago we had a feedback session with roise to see how our photos were coming along, i showed her my map app image displayed through two different platforms i.e smart phone and actual map booklet.

She really like the concept and said it had nicely developed from the last time we spoke about my idea of displaying and image through a screen then capturing as a photo did not complement the message I was trying to get across. So i slightly altered it which then made it a lot understandable through the message.

In Terms of the ideas i had down in the following series of pictures she suggested the i keep the objects in the picture flat based, which i now find displays the images in an appealing way and builds upon the continuity of the photo.

we had both agreed on the idea of using a board game somewhere in one of the pictures, which was a good idea, but due to not find the right one for the image i decided to use a pack of playing card instead which i now think looks better for the photo and almost everyone can relate to it.


      

Reflection Photography Five Photos [4]

Final Photographs 

Old vs New

How we constantly using Satellite maps on our phones   

E-Mail have made our lives much easier and faster to send important messages through long distances 

These days we can access almost any type of game we want to play 

Newspaper apps Have saved us buying giant pages of fin cheap paper

This last recent update is the final photo added to the series, only recently have i decided to reuse this image