Meeting - Editing, sectioning

A few days ago, I went around kenny's house to make some plans for both pre production and post production. We decided it would be best to shoot the narrative and the perfomance on different days as this means we could focus on both aspects and get the most out of each day without having to divide our time between Lewis and our actors and actresses. Things we discussed for the pre production part of things included editing techniques, organising transport for both the client,and ourselves, scheduling the date, time, location and meeting place of the video shoot. We also discussed his outfit that he would be wearing on the shoot and the what the actors and actress would wear on the day. We decided that a plain bright t-shirt such as green would be suitable and black jeans. This One editing technique we decided to use was sectioning the footage. We went out and filmed some random clips in Attlebridge and went back, captured the footage and then tried out sectioning the footage using the editing software Final Cut Studio. Here is the short video that we made to practice sectioning footage.

We used an application called "Motion" that our friend Rob managed to get a copy of on Kenny's IMac. This application allows us to edit masks that we created using Photoshop. We then took the Photoshop file with several layers and to create each section of the screen. We then used the separate layers as the mask and created several black square/rectangle and applied the footage on the top. Then you have to go on the compostion mode and apply the settings " travel matte - Luma". We then dragged and dropped our chosen piece of footage into each section, lined it up, perhaps shrunk it down a bit to fit in the section and then applied it. We then used the masks to make each section appear at a different time. Here is a picture of the sectioning process that we used to make our practice video.

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Below you can see our first initial treatment plan that we made in the meeting.