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POST PRODUCTION
Footage
Rejected Shots
We had quite a lot of rejected shots. Many angles and positions of the camera had to be changed since they were not making the same effect of the story that we wanted. Many scenes were rejected because we thought that they were not that significant to add. For example, in the first and third video we initially planned that the artists should sing in the mike however, the artists got restricted to just one position and could not move around much and do some gestures. For the fourth, fifth and seventh videos we had to change the position and angle of the camera since it was not complimenting the shot at all. We had to cut out shots such as the 11th one since it had no purpose.
Selected Shots
The above are a few of the selected shots but of course we had to take a portion of each video which was suitable for the final video. The expressions of all the actors were spot on. The angles that we took for each shot further emphasized and elaborated on the representation that we were showing in our music video. The shots are in sync to the beat and lyrics in terms of action and expressions. The lighting that we used in all the shots was in our favor. It connoted our concept expressively.
Editing
After cutting all the shots that we needed I used the bin to add the song "love the way you lie" and started to sync it with the shots that have already been cut and merged together. After that I cut down the unnecessary parts or the parts that are too long.
We wanted some parts of the video to be either fast or either in slow motion. So going into the effects control panel, and by clicking time remapping, a blue map appeared on top of the video strip with a line on it. By setting the points from where to where I had to either increase or slow down the speed I used the pen tool to mark the positions and used the mouse to either drag the line up to speed up or the line down to slow down.
I downloaded a blood splatter green screen from YouTube. After downloading it and adding it to the adjustment layer of where I want to place it, in order to get rid of the green part I clicked on the effects control and played around with the blend mode in order to merge it with the video.
For the part where the supporting actor (the mutual friend) was telling the truth about the girl to the male lead, we wanted to add white flashes as if he's recalling everything, thus I added a white color matte color matte and played with the opacity of it keeping the beginning and end of the color matte at 0% while keeping the center at 100%.
For different cuts of different videos I used different adjustment layers in order to compliment it with the lighting that is shown in each video. I used adjustment layers to color correct and brighten the video more.
I used brightness and contrast, three way color corrector and color balance and HLS to adjust the different parts of the videos' colors in order to make it more professional and appealing to the eyes.
In the end we wanted a split screen in order create a dramatic effect and show the relation between the actor and the artist. So first I overlapped the two videos I wanted to play at the same time and adjusted the position of each by going to the effects control panel.