Analysing My Rushes & Editing My Sequence.

The first thing I wanted to do after filming all the rushes for my trailer was too go through all the rushes and analyse them. This way I could work out what rushes were needed, which ones were useless and which were of the best quality.

I made myself a table on Google Drive which this table had the file name on it,  Details of what was happening on the shot, the quality of the shot and the shot angle. Whilst the table is not necessary for the completion of my project I believe it will be easier to organise the files better in specially when it comes to the editing of the project.

You can view the Finished Table here on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wfVkXJRBxs7zV99vf5C5OdUwL2dsNQ10m2hcC9Gz6j8

The one other thing which I had noticed straight away on several of my files is that the white balancing is incorrect on them. This is something which will have to be fixed when editing the trailer on Premier Pro.

After Analysing the rushes I wanted to edit all the shots together into the story sequence we had written for our trailer first. The reason I wanted to do this is because then It makes editing the trailer easier as its all in a story order. Also because it means when I do edit the trailer the lighting and effects needed in the shots will already be done (corrected) as well as the sound required.

I started a new Premier Pro Project and opened my Analysed Shot Table as well as the script. I followed along with the script and located the correct shot that I needed from the table. I cut down each clip to the right bits I needed it. Below you can see a screenshot of me working on the sequence by doing exactly that.

One problem which I had with quite a few of the shots in my trailer was that the white balancing wasn't correct causing some of the colours to appear incorrect in the trailer. This surprisingly is an easy fix. I had to go to the effects pannel on the bottom left and locate the one named "Fast Color Corrector", Dragged this on to each clip snippet that I wanted to correct. This would bring up a new menu in the effect controls for the selected clip. Shown like below.

The White balancing is easier then it looks too complete. As shown below everything in the blue box is what we are mainly focusing on. You select the tool which the orange arrow is pointing too and using that tool you select a white area in the shot to use. A good example in this shot is circled in orange so I would click here. If the correction still does not look fully correct you can the wheel below to alter it a bit.

Below you can also see how much better the shot looks after color correction is done. You can see much more detail in the image on the left and the one on the left also has an unrealistic shade of blue on it.

Another small issue I wanted to fix was when Oscar was talking too the camera in one shot, however what we didn't realise at the time of the filming is that the shot was filmed facing the light and Oscar just appears as one black blob, essentially ruining the shot. This is the best version of the shot so I'm going to attempt to lighten him up in the shot a little bit so it's better then before.

To do this I went too effects and selected "Brightness and contrast" and I clicked the "Free Draw Blazer" This allowed me too create points around Oscar so that I could only brighten him up. Once I had gone all the way around him, All I had too was slightly turn up the brightness number. This worked but it also didn't look the best. If we had time we should of gone back and rerecorded the shot really but unfortunately we couldn't so this had to do.

Altering the brightness of an object in PP.

There were some minor things I also did during the editing of my sequence for my trailer, these are listed here:

• I created a Text layer with the time on it, this was then animated to fade in and out using the effect controls. 
• In some areas to add effects, I added an Audio gain to some parts of the clips.
• In one shot I had used the color corrector to correct the white balance, However I decided to cut the clip so that when the bang of the window shutting went, the light would change back. I also increased the sound of the window shutting, This is increasing the scary effects I aiming for. 

After this was complete, I rendered the Sequence into a video and instead of creating new file I created a new sequence within the file. My next blog shows me editing the trailer together.