Post Production

During the production of Doppelgänger Editing has been the part which i believed I've learnt a lot of skills and improved in from the prelim to our final piece. Personally, i found editing the most difficult part but after getting familiar with prier pro and after and watching a few tutorials i started to get the hang of it. Watching the tutorials helped me a lot while editing as it allowed me to understand all the different panels and tools.

From our rough cut 2 to our final piece we made a lot of changes as you can see below from the 2 videos. But ill be just be talking about one of the changes I made.

One of the first things I did was look back at the storyboard and the shot list i made as this gave me a structure and allowed me too look at what clips needed to be where. This helped me decrease the gaps and make our sequence more organised. At first i realised there was lot of things missing at the start, we didn't include a distribution company nor did we included our first few scenes shown in our story board. Our whole idea was to show the conversation between the two characters and how the got to meeting up so that our audience could understand what was happening and won't be confused.
So, in order to show a quick insight into their conversation to the audience we had to show the text on the screen.
The first video on the left was how i constructed it at first but then i decided using text bubbles would be better as it would depict how they was messaging each other on social media. As you can see below on the clip on the right this is then how i further developed the clip from the left. I created these two using after effects, first i used photoshop to the text bubbles. After looking back at it now i should've spent more time editing the actual text bubble instead of just making the back ground transparent as it looks to fake and animated. It stands out and contrast with the black background of the laptop a bit too much looking out of place. Then, using after effects i placed the text message into the scenes placing the text on top. Using different key frames it allowed me to make the text bubble appear in different sizes throughout the scene, so at first it would start at 0 degrees so nothing shows up then at 50 degrees so that it pops up onto the screen and then put the last key frame back to 0 degrees so that it goes back to blank. I made sure the text and image was synced together so that it would follow it when it appears and disappears. I used the type writer effect on the text.

Throughout, the post production of the sequence i worked a lot on the editing even though i didn't have any experience or knowledge. It was a matter of trial and error and i learnt a lot during this experience. Even if i struggled a lot and was stressed majority of the time i was on premier pro i managed to finish our sequence and edit majority of it. Overall, i would say I'm proud of what we've achieved as we literally started from the bottom not knowing anything about after effects or premier pro and came to producing our whole sequence on our own. Despite, how much we've achieved during this process there is a lot of things we could've improved in our sequence and worked on to make it even better.