This week I have continued with the project editing and positioning our footage onto the timeline, I focused mainly on after effects for two lessons, I edited two clips together in order to show the two brothers together side by side but with the brother who has passed away (Harry) slowly fading out of the shot in order to represent his loss from his brother and highlight the fact that his brother is no longer around.
When shooting this scene I took one shot of George alone in frame looking upset and without moving the camera took another shot framed the same way but with both brothers in the frame, this allowed me to edit this effect with more ease as without camera movement it would be easier to take Harry out of the frame.
However when putting these two clips together, I realised there was a slight movement with the camera meaning the scale and positioning of the two shots did not correspond.
To solve this as you can see in the screenshot I overlaid the two clips and began to alter the scale and positioning of the shot in which both brothers are featured, I did this until the clips were no longer blurry and gave the effect that both clips were exactly the same.
Once I was happy that the two clips matched, I began to alter the clip to give the 'fading out' effect of Harry's character that we had hoped to do. To do this I altered the opacity of the clip over time, decreasing this opacity of the clip as it went on, making the clip look like Harry's character slowly faded out before the end of the shot.
I have also been replacing some of the shots featured in the first minute of our video of George with clips of the children when the were young. I did this in order to make the meaning and story of the video more obvious and understandable to the audience, as through audience research I realised that it was unclear at some points that these two characters were actually brothers. This is shown in the screenshot below of the two children playing in the woods.
To the right of the screenshot you can see some of the after effects we have been adding to clips of George in the present, when upset following the loss of his brother, using the effect 'colour pass' to highlight his mood and state of mind during the video.
When shooting this scene I took one shot of George alone in frame looking upset and without moving the camera took another shot framed the same way but with both brothers in the frame, this allowed me to edit this effect with more ease as without camera movement it would be easier to take Harry out of the frame.
However when putting these two clips together, I realised there was a slight movement with the camera meaning the scale and positioning of the two shots did not correspond. To solve this as you can see in the screenshot I overlaid the two clips and began to alter the scale and positioning of the shot in which both brothers are featured, I did this until the clips were no longer blurry and gave the effect that both clips were exactly the same.
Once I was happy that the two clips matched, I began to alter the clip to give the 'fading out' effect of Harry's character that we had hoped to do. To do this I altered the opacity of the clip over time, decreasing this opacity of the clip as it went on, making the clip look like Harry's character slowly faded out before the end of the shot.
I have also been replacing some of the shots featured in the first minute of our video of George with clips of the children when the were young. I did this in order to make the meaning and story of the video more obvious and understandable to the audience, as through audience research I realised that it was unclear at some points that these two characters were actually brothers. This is shown in the screenshot below of the two children playing in the woods.
To the right of the screenshot you can see some of the after effects we have been adding to clips of George in the present, when upset following the loss of his brother, using the effect 'colour pass' to highlight his mood and state of mind during the video.
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