Final Edit
As this was my first ever piece of editing, I was very pleased on how it turned out. I used IMovie to make this film due to Premiere Pro and After Effects not working on my Mac at the time. I thought I would struggle editing my first film but I found it very simple and straight forward to do which I am pleased about. The only thing that I could improve on is the colour grading and getting it the right colour on all of the shots so it all looks the same, it took me a while to get the right colour and look for the theme.
As this was other first film, we know what to improve and to take forward into our second one which is the Two Way Conversation and hopefully developed my skills when it comes to editing it.
Due to Blogger not uploading my video, it will be available on my memory stick. Here are a few stills from the film.
What is colour grading?
Colour grading is the process of altering and enhancing the colour of a motion picture, video image, or still image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as colour timing and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory.
I have chosen to show my progress of colour grading on my final edit of Film Noir. At the time I have done the colour grading on IMovie on my Macbook due to After Effects not work during the time.
As you can see in these normal shots we took at first, you can see everything in the background including shadows of the actors, equipment etc which isn't very good. As it's a film noir, my job is to edit the film into black and white which is the theme. I went onto IMovie and played about the the colours to get and make it perfect so it would look like a film noir.
As you can see in the top right hand corner, I started to play around with the colours then brought them down to make it look like a film noir. On IMovie, it was basically simple to bring the colours down on all of them but I would need to do it properly on After Effects in order to show that I understand.
