Professional skills research

when looking at the difference between film and digital the obvious appearance is enough to give them away, Digital film will pick up details and lighting much easier and more efficiently than say a 16 or 8 mil camera stock, the lack of that detail is made up with a sense of feeling with the films overall look, the original film adds a certain additive to the screen and gives it more purpose in a sense.

Loc Doc shooting the last scene and editing the final thing

After getting all of the shots together and editing them before Christmas I was able too add the effects I need to add to the final look

The final shooting being that of small ones that I needed to edit with other shots as well as just few second filla's, this shot was easy enough to re-create because I couldn't get hold of the child actor or anyone small enough for this particular shot I improvised

I placed the camera where I wanted the shot to be and just need it to look like the arm substitute looked good enough to be real, I used an old bottle of wine and after that didn't seem long enough I used an empty tin can so it could sit on the very top and still be stable enough to stand upright, I then put the child's coat sleeve over the top of both and placed it in accordance to the camera screen

All I did for this shot was use the gobo we previously used to recreate the gutter scenes for Georgie and sprayed the top of it black too look somewhat similar, I placed white paper so I could later edit around the area with ease because of the contrast, I felt it would be immoral to kill innocent grass just for a few second shots to be used so i went out and found the nearest thing, a green cushion, so I de-pillowed it and made it look like the grass on the very top if the shot

With the last shoot which was very last minute I as the camera operator was the only one to care about this particular shot, I tried contacting and organizing the shoot with the producer and director but kept being reassured that they would get it done but when it came to Thursday the 8^th and having a full schedule the next day I had to do it all myself, non of my crew even bothered asking if I got the shot done when I came into the editing suite to capture and finalize the recreational shoot  I took the equipment out myself I went to the back garden and I did a small set build where I put the gopro down and used rock pallets around it to recreate concrete floor, I made sure to use gloves and kept the set build away from the camera and equipment to keep safety in mind however  I did set the scene and got an actress too stand in for a scene that need a face, I however could not unless Georgie grew a beard. But I will admit that I was mad at the fact that I as an editor needed this shot and my crew ignored my intentions about the scene that I needed to progress the editing to a final stop. 

However with the editing side of things i made sure as to get straight to the editing suite after i had filmed this shot alone since my crew weren't there (I had mentioned it too them and tried to get this shot done but I ended up doing myself) I got straight to the suite and captured the footage from the shoot and added it to the avid bin

This was the entirety of the timeline, most of the shots were simple Que in, Que out place on the timeline but others I had to be tricky about because some of the audio in the files were a little gritty or audibly grubby so I had too pick and choose which I was going to use in that particular shot, The sound won't have been picked up while on shoot so we had no idea until I started editing

with this close up you can see is the small purple icons appear on the particular videos, that's because I added n effect onto them too get the overall look that I wanted to have, I used a total of three which would be-

What this effect did when it was dragged and dropped onto a video file was it allowed me to select the polygon tool and go around a certain area and make it like a window, the technique is called masking, the selected area can either allow everything on the inside of it be shown and nothing around it to be shown or it's effect can be flipped and be used so that everything around it can be scene apart from inside the selected area therefore making it easy to see a video that is underneath this one in the time line.

The other effects I used were dissolve for the entrance of Pennywise  and the re-size effect for when he was looking through the gutter, the re-size and dissolve were easy enough o use and manipulate.

the image to the right is the effect in use, I masked around Georgie's coat and hood string and revealed the video underneath so that it seemed like Pennywise was looking up from the gutter. I will admit I am not entirely happy with the final cut of this effect because I have high standards of my own work and I am very new to Avid media composer's work method in comparison to what I used in college (premiere pro 6) the corners and lines aren't the best fit toward the final thing but i will admit I am content with it's final look

After i sorted and arranged all of the videos files all I needed too was to sort the audio out, I had multiple layers, I had a rain soundtrack and the It theme matched to the time it appears in the original video however I also had the interference of the audio form the actors and wind resistance from a few. I used this sound editor in avid and I was able too control the audio levels that come under as the blue play line goes over the timeline therefore being able to turn 1 videos audio layers down on the same layer as video 2's sound which needed to be turned up. This was an incredibly large help when it came to editing the audio levels