Diary Entry: 8th November

In today's lesson me and Lauren started straight away to edit the footage. We needed to upload the footage of the re-walk to put at the end however when trying to import we realised that the footage was of a different format and made the footage look blurred and unstable. We could not have used this footage as it would look completely different and unprofessional compared to the rest of the video, therefore we decided to re-film as we wanted the entire footage to be of a high quality.

The crying footage on the other hand was not blurred or an odd colour therefore the footage could be used. We firstly enlarged the image so it was zoomed into the eye only where the tear drop falls, we also made the speed of this drop very slow to exaggerate and add to the video effect. A lot of editing was done to this shot as the original colour was faded and made Grace's skin look infected. We disorted the image and changed the colours, however this made the image look worse by turning her older and with bad skin. Finding a suitable effect was stressful so we decided to leave it and come back to it when we had edited other areas.

As most of our footage could not be used we decided to edit more of the footage we already have. An idea we had was to  use a magnification effect when Grace was singing. This effect would make Grace Bigger and be in faint wash out colour to either the right or left of her. We originally wanted this to be on both sides but found it difficult to do because it mirrored the main shot of grace and converted the two images into one which looked very weird and alien like. We found this funny but was not fond of it for our work.


Author: Kiran Paul