DO'B/JB/ EH: Wilderness Woods Short - PLAY

Our primary footage was shot on a Canon 700D with a 50mm f1.8 lens, with audio from a Rode VideoMic Pro, and secondary footage was shot on a GoPro Hero 3+ Black.

After a lesson of editing our footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, we had chosen the shots we felt best suited our short and compiled these on the timeline in the order we wanted, and had our first rough cut finished. This edit was missing the majority of sound, and featured only initial colour grading attempts.

Our timeline at this stage in Premiere Pro. (Layers 4-9 are for our director's commentary)

• Selecting the most appropriate shots filmed at Wilderness Woods and then dragging these clips into the timeline in chronological order.
• The clips were then cut with In & Out points to exclude any unnecessarily long takes whilst also cutting out any unwanted footage, for example cropping out a hand shaking the bauble at the start of that clip.
• We also adjusted the scale of some clips to remove crew and equipment that were present in the shot, such as Elliot’s hand appearing in the side of the shot by the tent.
• Some of the diegetic sound was removed and replaced with sound clips that resembled diegetic sound, such as the rustling past a christmas tree, which we recorded on location. We then added in non-diegetic music throughout the whole audio timeline to create a frightening atmosphere, with asynchronous music being ominously happy.
• We then colour graded the the shots using Lumetri colour, adjusting various values such as contrast, exposure, highlights and saturation.We also included a blue tint to the shadows in many shots such as the jars and forest, as the colour is highly iconic of the supernatural horror genre. In the future we would benefit from matching the initial look of the shots before applying an overall grade to all of the shots and then making minor adjustments where necessary.
• We then intercut the shots walking through the forest  and walking to tent footage to create parallel lines of action, which further helped to make the longer take of the forest scene more appealing.
• A transition fading to black was used after the initial establishing shot depicting a bauble.
• Titles were then added as an overlay onto the swinging tire , and credits were added after the play sign shot, using a cross dissolve transition.

 



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