Production- Screen grabs (Question 4)

These are screen grabs that I took from my production process, where i used Final Cut Pro to edit the footage i had taken to produce the video.



1. After capturing the video from the tape, I placed the clips in to the time line and using the blade tool I started cutting the clips to the length I wanted. I had more footage than was required for the final video so I spent the time reviewing all the clips and made a time line, filtered them down and tweaked their length to fit the music track.




2. I reduced down the amount of footage I had and spent some time trying to match changes of clips to the beats and changes in the music where I could. I added some simple cross dissolves to certain parts to cover some edit points that were not as clear cut as I would have liked. This screen grab shows my video almost completed before I added some final touches. I found the 'Bad TV effect' in Final Cut and tweaked the settings to what I wanted, then adjusted the colour using the colour corrector and desaturated the clips. I wanted to make it look like Jahnoi was being watched by a CCTV camera.





3.
After I was happy with the effect I wanted to create, I exported the video out to finalise the rendering of the effects. I then placed the full video back in to a new time line so I could add text where required. I used the text tools available in Final Cut to add the text at the beginning
and end, adding some cross dissolves to fade the text in and out. I did this to introduce the artist and track title and when it would be available to download.





4. The final bits of text I needed to add was the record symbol in the top right hand corner of the CCTV effect. I wanted this effect because I wanted Jahnoi to look as if he was being recorded, which showed that he cannot escape and is always under scrunity. I used the text tools in Final Cut to get the style I wanted I then moved them in to the right place on the video, by clicking and dragging it in to place in the right hand video window. The red dot was also it’s own text element. I then copied it several times and placed it in the right places on the time line to give the effect of it blinking on and off. Once this was done the video was finished and exported as you see it now.