POST PRODUCTION

During post production we have added some after effects, made sure that the syncing is correct and the lighting looks professional. Once we had done all of these things and just polished of our video, it was ready to go onto YouTube, facebook, etc for audience feedback. All of the images/screen shots that are below are from YouTube.


This is our finished music video:

To start with we found a few syncing issues throughout our music video, which we amended, it was just a simple case of taking the clip which was out of time back a few milliseconds, until her mouth opened when the words came out.


Lighting was an issue on some of the shots. They were either a little dull (make-up shot, which you can see below) or too bright, as we had some of the over exposed shots still in our video. 
On these shots we used fast colour correction, this was to make sure that with us brightening and dulling down some of the shots, Kates face didn't look washed out, darker than usual or a different colour to the other shots we had. Although some of the over exposed shots we did remove, as the lighting didn't really add anything to our video.

We have also brightened up the shot below as it looked a little dull, we did this by using fast colour correction and gamma correction:

We altered the puppet shots, with both Kate and Tom, to make them look more professional. We were able to do this by duplicating the layer and using the luma key tool on the duplicated layer, which we then changed the threshold to get the shot to how we wanted it to look. We also used the gamma correction tool to try and get the shots to the highest standard/quality possible.
Screen shots of the puppet scenes are below:
 

During post production, we added an old style film reel effect on the memory shots to distinguish between the past and the present. We tried some video effects on the memory shots, like the cineon converter, which brightened the shot up a lot, and made the colours much brighter than they were originally. The reason we thought of using this effect, was because it would make the shots feel warm and happy which they would have been in the past. Although we didn't use this as we decided to use the black and white tool instead to add to the old/memory style which we were going for, you can see this from the screen shots below:

On the rose and photograph shots at the beginning and end we used a tool, it dulled down the colours and mixed them together, which made the images look older, as in a memory. Below is a screen shot:

We used the HD camera for some of the shots, because of this we had to stretch the image to fit the frame, to do this we simply clicked on motion and moved the image until it fitted the frame.

We also used a motion effect at 2.02 when Tom pushed kate onto the sofa, this was to emphasis the movements and to make them more visible to the audience.


On the 'dumb friends' shot where we had Tom on the right hand side, his friends on the left, and Kate in the middle at the back, we decided to do a focus pull, to change the focus from Tom and his friends to Kate, this was done to highlight the sadness. To do this we duplicated the layer, the used the rotor brush tool to cut her out of the picture, added feathering to make the edges around her smoother, then simply added a blur effect onto the duplicated layer. We then added a focus pull, and chose how long we wanted to pull to last, you can see the effect at 1.32 on the video at the top or from the screen shot below:

We did use a horizontal flip on some of the shots which included Kate and Tom together, this was done because in most of the shots Tom has been on the right hand side of the frame, which we believe to be the domineering side and we wanted to keep this the whole way through the music video: