Final Media OTS: Quietus

QUIETUS JOE CRACKNEL from fLIX.TV on Vimeo.

Evaluation

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Creating the split screen sequence.

This is a detailed analysis and break-down of how I created the short but vital split screened sequence.

Editing, Editing and more Editing.

I spend a lot of time editing the film alone, but it the way that me and katharine have agreed, and over the holidays I spent many hours locked on to my laptop editing away. As often as we can I will have katharine by my side when I edit, she is the director and she can help me make decisions. On monday we did some more editing and decided to film a section of it to show some of our progress. So this is an hour and half of editing, within the space of two minutes.

Split screening again.

As I said I have been trying to create the split screening effect we are looking for, for the final shot of our OTS. Now that we have the footage I am starting to use Final Cut , as I did previously in the example to put this together. Its going well so far, hopefully I will be able to get a rough posted up here.

P.s. Here is the example from last time.

Untitled from Joe Cracknell on Vimeo.

Eureka!

The final shot in our OTS we have planned to a be a dramatic, comic-style split screen, such as the ones used in \Scott Pilgrim vs the world' 

The moment will be when all three of our characters make a connection between themselves, Miller and the tarot cards. We feel this would be perfect because it is slightly surreal, very dramatic and great the peak of our OTS. Unfortunately it is not an easy thing to create, Imovie is by far incapable of it, but I recently got Final Cut Express and I had my fingers crossed that we would be able to do it, I can now uncross my fingers, as after extensive hours of searching, trying things, breaking things and trying different things, I have managed to create what we want. The only example I have on this as yet is one I create from two very short, stock film clippings, nevertheless it shows what we want to achieve. When we do the final thing it will be a three way split instead of two, but that is no obstacle.

I will post the video in a SEPARATE post, seeing as it is 'waiting in queue to be converted'

It's a date.

The bar is our main location, even though it doesn't have the most time on camera, it is the base set for our footage. The bar, as I have mentioned is in wells and last week me and Katharine had to try and organise to get everyone there at the same time, this is around 7 people, a few of which have busy working lives and it was very difficult, we had to rearrange the date at least three times and differnt plans and problems kept popping up. But we have finally arranged a time and on sunday the 16th we will be trecking up to wells to film, we will be following our post-it-animatic whuich hopefully will be uploaded soooon.