Reframing the Interface 10- Post-Production Part 2 + Tutorial

After I had assembled all of the footage onto the timeline and began importing the archive imagery, I had a tutorial with Anne and showed her to see what she thought. The feedback I got was to cut down the footage even more and cherry pick the most interesting, punchy phrases by each of them, as some of the sentences were quite long winded. This technique really helped in the long run as it not only made the film more punchy and interesting, but it also cut the run time down dramatically to around 15-20 minutes.

When cutting the clips, I found that the audio became quite jumpy when it came to cutting in between the characters. I decided to add a constant power transition to allow for a more smooth, gradual cut to the next clips audio.

Timeline with the audio transition added

Constant Power transition applied

When applying the archive I decided to add a gradual zoom to most of the pictures so that your attention can be put on the individuals in the photo, as most of the pictures are group photos from decades ago, so it can sometimes be difficult to tell who is who. To do this I added a shadow effect to highlight who the main character is in the photo by adding a circle onto the image and lowering the opacity and feather. 

Example of the shadow effect

After I had the structure of my film together and some of the archive images and titles on the timeline, I showed Anne who was positive about the film, however she advised me to nit-pick the interviews even further and also work on the structure and think about what works best in what place. When further inspecting the film I decided to put Terry first as we are introduced to Terry originally through Tony's story, so we are never introduced at the start to Terry, we are just shown him firstly in Tony's story. I felt this would make the film a little clearer and also allow the viewer to understand who he is first before he cuts in between Tony's story. After I sorted out my structure I would then begin adding music and titles and so on.