TW- Post Production Role

During the past 2-3 lessons, I have been working on the post production of our opening sequence. This included:

• Uploading any shots we had captured during our shoots onto the D drive of the computer and transferring them into our Premiere Elements editing software in order to be edited and placed in a timeline. I did this by selecting the 'Get media' button within the software and transferring them via files and folders.

• Using the clips on the timeline (as shown to the right), I would then have to cut the shots down in order to fit the time frame specification for our opening as well as making sure the piece looks both more continuous and realistic, removing any unwanted frames of the clip, for example, when there is moments in each shot were either nothing had been revealed to the audience, there was no movement in the shot or when the diegetic sound mix from the shots were unneeded or unrealistic.

• I have also been testing and using various post production effects we could add to the sequence to make it of higher quality. These effects included some fades in and out of shots, changing the speed of these fades to match well with the sequence. I have also tested the various speeds in which our shots could be shown at, this could be either making a certain shot with more slow motion or increasing the motion of the on screen movement.
• Furthermore, I have cut appropriate shots into the timeline which will allow space for opening titles within diverse and simplistic clips, this is because our group decision was to have typography on screen as the sequence progresses, not cutting to, for example, a blank screen to allow spacing throughout the opening for introductory titles.