Post production effects

An important factor of creating a professional look to our video is in the attention to detail to the effects applied to the footage. We have really aspired to the inspiration we saw and are still working hard on overlays, colour correction, transitions and other effects. A big step we made was to turn our video footage to wide screen, we were a bit skeptical at first as it would cut off sections of the film but it was a good move! really enhancing the professionalism of our video. Below are some screen shots of overlays we have used.

The image to the left shows a flash back, desaturated with a 'soft edge' effect applied so it is noticeable, an overlay using lights in the middle increases drama and depth to the shot. A screen shot during a cross dissolve on the right.

This image is extremely powerful, it is used during the slower pace of the music, it was by chance that the close up fitting with the background lighting but the image is striking and dramatic.

'Writing Video...'

So we finally were able to begin editing properly, starting at the beginning of the track, onwards and upwards. The beginning intro was pieced together in the same style as the animatic, using cross dissolves between shots to match the slow pace of the acoustic music. We reversed the shot of the nose bleed and cut it into parts, between which we added visually exciting cuts of static or slow movement, to start to build tension toward the opening lyric. A shot such as below was one of the cut between, the colour has been enhanced so that the already amazing blue of the sky intense and vivid. The people walking beside him we decided to have walking forwards as well as backward, to create more atmosphere.

One of our strongest overlays - we changed the brightness and contrast of both of the shots so that the colouring matched, before there was a grainy effect that was created around the middle of the shot, so to eliminate that we changed the colouring.