Task 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Script for task 4 I began post-production by starting a lossless copying of the footage to HD on Adobe Prelude. Then I began to sort all of the rushes into a single bin on Adobe Premier. Once this was completed, I worked onto the timeline, syncing all of shots to the clapper board track so cutting the shot with the razor blade wouldn’t ruin the lip sync. This left us with plenty of different layers all in sync to the track. I used the razor blade tool to cut into each layer on the beat, using markers so as to show me where the cutting point was. Having done this I was able to drop the best cuts from each one on top of the main performance cut. I created the text animation, where we made a text layer, and began to font scale. We chose the font from dafont.com. To do this, the key frame would start at 0% and end at 100%, causing the font to grow as the computer acts as the inbetweeners. I needed to use the select tool in order for the animation not to be blocked by a moving arm; this masked it out by drawing a line around the object, and then cut it out. I had to chroma-key, animate text and changing the aspect ratio. I used Adobe After Effects to do it all, and it began with myself exporting all desired footage into the programme. Chroma keying with the green screen meant matting everything out, then it was easy to replace the black with a still image. We worked on colour with Lumetri Colour Engine, which works inside premier. This let me control the amount that specific colours feature. I worked on desaturating and saturating, this was to get rid of the black colouring in each shot. I desaturated the reds in each shot, which helped to give a 1980’s/90’ muddy and messy light, which propelled it into the period product look even further.