Saturday, 3 July 2021

EDITS: Stalker's photographs

Using Final Cut Pro, we made made final edits to each scene to create a more professional.

In the scenes in which the stalker had taken photographs of Sarah, we neatly edited in the resulting photographs into the scene - showing the stalker's results. To illustrate a clear difference between the narrative perspective and the stalker's perspective we used the greyscale tool to make the photographs black and white. These also contributed to the sinister visual codes associated with the stalker, providing stereotypes for the audiences.




When filming our final scene, in the dark outdoor lighting, we had to play around with lighting and exposure in order to make the quality of the shots good. Especially when we were filming Sarah from the stalker's perspective through the window, we had to manage the exposure to create an evident contrast between the light room and dark outside of the house - making Sarah visible to to both stalker and camera.



For the table top sequence in the dark room, we found that the red light was insufficient to film in, but the white light from flash was too harsh and not realistic for a dark room. We therefore had to adapt and create red filters over the camera lenses to make a red glow. It was also helpful to edit in a red filter on Final Cut Pro in the later stages. 



1 comment:

  1. Evidence of sophisticated editing skills in Final Cut, dropping still photos into live action shots to make links between two actions. Thoughtful account of how colour codes creates meaning, such as the use of greyscale, filters and contrasts. All of this feeds into an assured handling of sinister thriller visual codes.

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