Preliminary Task: Construction and Editing

First thing we did was put our clips into Premiere in the correct order and trim them to the right length to make it as similar to the original clip as possible. We did this to ensure that we had all the footage that was needed as well as to make sure everything was placed accurately.

Once we’d trimmed and organised the clips, we played it alongside the actual clip from the film to make sure we had included everything. We also set beginning and end frames to be clear on how long the clip would be overall.

When we compared our clip to the original, we noticed that the pace of some of our clips were faster than those in the original and so we slightly reduced the speed. This meant our clip matched up better with the original and it also changed the overall tone of the clip which is what we wanted because it made it more similar to the original.

We decided to change the sound levels of some of the clips to match up with each other as some were too loud compared to others that were too quiet, this was due to the microphone’s distance from the actors. When we changed it, it made the clip sound smoother and better assembled.

As we used a better quality camera to the ones used to film the original movie, we had to use numerous effects to mimic the quality of the old cameras. We used the mosaic effect to enlarge and blur pixels as well as adding a tint to make it look washed out. We also needed to change the contrast & brightness of some of the clips.