Re editing

          For re editing, there was quite a lot that had to get done. We had to add in new scenes, a couple new transitions, and fix some of the titles. Also, I have to make some changes to the color grading of the video. First, I worked on replacing some of the scenes that weren’t adequate. In one scene, Jack was driving his car into the driveway. The problem with this clip is that when he was driving his car into the driveway, he looked at the camera almost the whole time. This was a vital mistake that had to be reshot, as we cannot have any of the characters looking directly into the camera. I added in the new and revised shot on jack driving his car into the driveway and not looking into the camera. Next, was transitions. I decided to put myself through the torture of making a very difficult transition to make. Basically, you take an object that covers the top to the bottom of the screen and as you pass by it, the new footage appears behind the o next moving by. It is a very long process in order to create this transition. First, you have to put the old clip on top of the new one. After doing this, apply the draw mask effect onto the new clip. Now, as the object covering the screen moves make the new video’s key points for the draw mask move with the object. Now, you move over two frames and redo the last step. Repeat these steps u til the new clip covers the entire screen, then un apply the draw mask once the entire screen is filled up. The last element in our video that had to be tweaked was the color grading. Color grading a video essentially makes the video look more professional and complete. The colors look more satisfying to the eye, and depending on the theme, different color grading can be used to build a different tones in the video. For example, if I color grade the video to have blue undertones, then the viewer might be more inclined to think that it is cold weather in the video. The easiest way to color grade is to apply a LUT onto the entire video. Essentially what a LUT is is a already made color grading formula that you apply over a whole video. I will use the LUT called Aspen. This LUT puts a cool blue tone over the entire video, and makes the coloring just a little darker making the cinematic experience when watching it more professional.