Examples of editing

throughout my short

filmCutting

Colour correction

Colour grading

Effects e.g. Ghosting

CuttingThroughout my film I have used cutting to alter the way in which the audience

perceive the film. This can be through making short, quick cuts in a sequence in

order to show a decline in the protagonist’s mentality, or long, singular shots that

show how he is reflecting deeply.

Here we see

that a long shot

followed by

quick cuts is

used to display

an increase in

pace once he

knows he will

take the pill

Cutting

More examples of cutting

Here cutting is used as a way

to introduce a dream sequence

to the audience. By cutting

between his dream and him

asleep we know that it is his

dream we are seeing and also

that it is disturbing him, as

seen in him rolling around in

the bed disturbed.

cutting

Even more examples!

The way in which this section

has been cut into longer single

shots is a way to state that the

protagonist is in a calmer mind-

set, and that he is focused on

one thing at this point, rather

than before.

Colour correction and

Colour grading

Colour correcting occurs post production in order for all shots

to look similar and for lighting to appear the same in each shot,

even if whilst filming they were moved around or simply it

became latter in the day.

For colour correcting and colour grading I use the RGB curves

and Color correction.

Colour correction in my film

During nearly all scenes I’ve

had to colour correct in order

to remove any over saturation

from filming or make two

scenes look the same.

This is an example of two

different shots needing colour

correction to look the same.

I have found that the easiest

way to do this is to colour

correct on one piece, getting

the general tone correct, and

then copying it over to the

second shot

After colour correcting a

shot, simply right click to

copy. Select the shot you

now wish to colour correct,

right click on this shot and

then select “paste

attributes”

Colour gradingColour grading occurs in order to create an atmosphere or desired effect during

a film. In the case of my film I chose to use greens and blues in order to create a

depressing and moody tone. This is found within many of the example short films

that I watched, such as The Hole and For Elsie.

In both cases the blue/grey colouring gave a gloomy presence that sets up the

emotion of the film.

Here we see a before and after of colour gradient, with the deep blue colouring

connoting the depressing atmosphere of the funeral from the previous scene.

Effects

Adding effects such as Ghosting to a shot is similar to colour

grading as it is simply dragging the effect to the shot in

particular.

The effect created by the Ghosting tool meant that there was an

overlap of images, adding to the