Post Production

This week Carla and I have been putting the last touches to our music video. After having a break from the production over christmas I cam back to watch the video with fresh eyes and was pleased to find that the effect was creepy but in a quite amusing way. We were hoping that we would be able to film the establishing shot with the moon in shot. However, the weather did not permit this- so I had the idea that we could find a picture of the moon on the net and layer it over the establishing shot (zoom into the lake). Once we had placed the (resized) moon into the sky and used automation scaling and positioning to move the moon with the zoom. The effect looked ridiculous!! We spent quite abit of time trying to get it to look natural but had to give up and go for more of a comedy effect (I must have laughed everytime I saw it!). I was very pleased with it once I had gotten used to it - it was certainly very surreal, tying in nicely with the rest of the video. Next we attempted to lighten up details of some of the shots in the woods just to establish some background- we used contrast and tweaked the RGB Balance. We enhanced the red in a big way, Greg made a comment that we looked like east european witches and it was felt that the red made a contribution to this effect. I preferred the aesthetic look of the brighter red highlights anyway. A few fade in/outs and cross dissolves were added (although not too many or it would have cheapened the whole thing) to smooth out some transitions that needed it just to improve the flow of the film. A few edits were tweaked and now we are going to see if we can emulate the effect of a hand cranked camera. We have placed soft edges on the footage- it was felt that this frame gave the film an 'old' character. 

Everytime I watch the progress I feel more and more of a weirdo, the middle 8 scene that we acted backwards in order to reverse to play forward in particular looks effectively creepy. This certainly corresponds with our theme of dark fairytales.