Film Production

When I had all my filming done I was ready to start editing. I took all my video clips into the 'Splice App' and clipped them, then I put all the footage together. I also used this App to speed up my time lapse scene. I then took my video into the 'InfiniFX App' and turned it all into greyscale but I kept the balloon yellow the whole way through, I also done some colour changes at the end. Here is an example of my video before the greyscale colour change and after:

 

I'm not quite sure how to use After Effects and this was the way I figured out how to change the greyscale into colour at the end of the film. I used one clip and changed it into 3 seperate colour schemes, then I clipped each video at a different place and put them altogether to get a gradual change of colour. Unfortunately for me the colour change wasn't so gradual once it was played back. So I found a tutorial on youtube that let me create a time stretch between these colour changing scenes and this made the change over between them more smooth. Here are the 3 different coloured video clips I used:

 

I then took my film into Adobe After Effects and added a title screen, text to the beginning and end, added a time stretch to the colour change scenes and also added two snapshots to finish the film off while the character was in mid air. Here are two screenshots of the text I added in the first and last scene of the film:

'Remember happiness is never far away' is the moral of the story within the film. The character's happiness is represented by the yellow balloon, and it is never far away from him in any scene. His life is portrayed as dull and grey until he is united with his happiness at the end, then his life becomes bright and positive!

I used the website www.freesound.org for all the sounds and background music in my film. I wanted the beginning of the film to feel lonely and sad so I used slow piano music for it. It was very windy the day I filmed the footage and the balloon and trees can be seen blowing about alot in the film so I used a wind sound through the grey scenes also. When the colour change occurs at the end I cut off both the slow piano and the wind and added more upbeat piano music and some sounds of birds singing, this was to show that the character's life had just gotten a lot happier.

When I showed my film to the class for the first time this was what it looked like:

 

When I received the feedback there were a few changes I had to make before my film would be completed. I had to:

1. Change the font of the text on the first and last scene.
2. Make the transition of the greyscale into colour more smooth.
3. Fix the end scene so that it doesn't zoom into the character in mid air at the end, make the transition more smooth also.
4. Raise the sound levels.

And also I wanted to add a title screen to start the film of properly.