LAST TOUCHES

I logged and captured the 1st scene from the video cam. Nic and i chose the clip we thought was the best and one which could accommodate the full moon. It was a long shot of the lake, trees either side with plenty of sky. I then zoom into the trees into a blur, ready to fade to the 2nd scene.
It took a few hours for us to get the moon in and looking ok. Keir showed us how to get a moon image we had chosen off the net, cut out in photo shop using a tool which basically cuts it for you, rather than doing it by hand. Once we imported it into FCP we fiddled around with the placement, movement, and size. As the scene zoomed in we had to make the moon move in the same way and go off the top of the screen. It looked comical, to much for what we wanted. Once we had put other effects on the scene and added the viniette around the edges of the scenes, the moon looked really good. The viniette created the judderman image of the smudged frame, we had to have it a lot more subtle than the advert because we hadn't left any room around the edges of our shots, so didn't want to lose any props. We experimented with most of the effects in the FCP menu but they were hardly noticeable and not what we wanted. We did change the graininess to make it look older, the HD quality was lovely but to clean for what we wanted. We tried an effect called bump-map to create the jitter but it just wasn't right. We altered the contrast and colour balance setting the highlights reds quite high and the greens and blues lower in comparison. we wanted to keep the reds high but not have the scenes as bright.
To get the judderman effect we really wanted, Nick showed us a program on a different computer. This took ages again but it was an old fashioned style effect, exactly what I'd envisioned. It had the broadcast lines coming across the screen and we could change the jitteriness to more or less. We also did the title and the credits in a font, which was very stylish and old. It was a relief to have finished and after watching it back several times i was pretty pleased at what i had achieved as my first collaborative film.
We have the studio booked to get the final mix before adding this to the vid and burning a dvd.
Nicola is putting some reverb etc on the vocals and I am going to mess around with some photos I took of us filming the wolf-bed scene, in Adobe photoshop to get the cover for the dvd. We are in the studio on Tues so all will be complete by then. It's a relief to have almost finished, I feel that it was the right amount of time for a collaborationa nd I'm really eager to get on with my next project. I have really enjoyed the film side of this project ( I loved doing the vocals and recordings too) and can't wait to start the next one.